Coming off of a decent week, there’s only a couple reads left in my pile to get through including The Four Horsemen #5 as well as Detective Comics #840. Let’s jump right into this, shall we?

52 Aftermath: The Four Horsemen #5

There really isn’t much storytelling going into this. In my opinion, this whole story has been one massive smash-fest / zombie invasion that’s pretty entertaining to read. Although, the fights are pretty intense and manage to keep my interest in the title going from issue to issue. I tip my hat to Keith Giffen as he continues that trend in issue 5 and leaves me sitting in anticipation for issue 6 to wrap everything up. Will he be able to deliver and ending that satisfies? We’ll have to wait until this week to find out.

I don’t like Pat Olliffe. Let’s just get that out of the way right now. I first saw him in issue 1 of World War III and thought his artwork was terrible. This comic hasn’t helped his cause. At no point in the reading of this issue, or any issue in the story, did any panel really jump out at me. Superman’s beat down of Yuurd was decent and the Bat-Slap to Snapper was funny but, overall, Olliffe’s art wasn’t very impressive compared to other artists on DC’s payroll.

If you’ve been following Four Horsemen, this should already be bagged, boarded and archived. If you haven’t read it, give it a look. It’ll probably surprise you. While the story is fairly interesting, this issue really loses points for the art. Call me bias but Olliffe just doesn’t do it for me.

Detective Comics #840

Paul Dini delivers as always. While this particular arc seems to have gone on far long enough, Dini manages to tie one last issue into it and still keep it interesting. I honestly don’t know if I can take another Ra’s resurrection issue so this better be the last we’ll see of it…Regardless, Dini’s writing continues to entertain throughout this issue.

Don Kramer and Wayne Faucher have been replaced on art by the new team of Dustin Nguyen and Derek Fridolfs. Is this change for the better? I don’t think so. The faces seem a little square and awkward. There’s something not quite right about them. Aside from that, the art gets the job done. I prefer Kramer and Faucher but, then again, what do I know?

Assuming that this is finally the end of the Ra’s al Ghul resurrection, the title managed to clean up all the loose ends fairly nicely and provide a decent story at the same time.

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