Free Comic Book Day

To sooth my current academic misery, I attended the Free Comic Day with my housemates, Phil, Adam and Tom. Bought myself a copy of Detective Comics #684, and got free crap along with it.

Batman crouching moodily over the gates of Arkham...the more things change....

Although I'm not always up to date on comic books news, I did find out that Detective Comics is being retooled for Batman only stories. Obviously having Batman comics, graphic novels, films and cartoons aren't quite enough for the heads of DC.

As a story, it's pretty typical Batman fare. Jeremiah Arkham, the former Black Mask, has a plan to lure Batman back into Arkham Asylum.  To be honest, this whole "psychological villain" thing now feels as cliched as the generic supervillain stuff. I rather more enjoyed The Question storyline.



This one, Iron Man Vs. Thor, is slightly more interesting. It's bascially just an eco-tale of people who want to colonize the moon. Tony Stark built the technology that helps the villains, and Thor hates what they're all doing to nature. Pretty standard stuff, really.

The Free Comic is G.Joe, something I know very little about because in Britain, we had Action Man instead. I had a ninja action man, cause ninjas are cool. Anyway, I don't really care enough to judge the Free Comic I got . It seems fairly okay. The cover promises that the villains have won, though they haven't really.