I'm enjoying this book. This story really started with the Faces of Evil - Kobra book. That's where Jeffrey Burr was replaced by his brother Jason as the leader of Kobra. The biggest difference being that Jason, along with the science and technology part of their attacks, also uses Blood Magic. He's also trying to change the traditional paradigms that his brother, and Kobra followed. His plans are a lot more intricate, devious, well thought out. He knows that to attack a group directly, whether it be the JSA, Checkmate or any of the various other ones, it allows those being attacked to focus there strengths and will to repeatedly stand in their path. He's kind of using guerrilla tactics, attacking many smaller targets, and sacrificing followers to draw their attention away from their real goal. It kind of scary when you think about it. Anyways, these first 2 issues have really served to introduce us to the new face of Kobra, and allowed us into the brain of Jason . . showing us how he thinks. We get his side of the story, through dialogue and narration, as Jason tells us how and why he's doing the things he's doing. Then, on the JSA side, we follow Mr Terrific's narration as he tries to confront the attacks and sort through the mess to find the target or reason for their assaults. Right now, Mr Terrific seems to be one step behind. My only real comment . . really, just an observation, is that this book seems more like a Checkmate book than necessarily a JSA one. The recent Checkmate series has a large infusion of JSA members, so . . sometimes the lines between the 2 groups were kind of blurred. Right now I'm not exactly sure if Kobra's attacking Checkmate as a way to hurt the JSA through it's connections, or . . they're using Checkmate, because of their already planted sleeper agents, and their real goal is to undermine the JSA. Either way it's making for an interesting mini-series. It's definitely not your traditional 'good-guys' vs 'bad-guys', all out fighting, kind of book. You can definitely see that the rules have been changed. To this end, a lot of credit has to go to Eric S Trautmann for his amazing story. He's doing a great job of portraying the belief and resolve that both of these teams have. Also, Don Cramer's pencils are fantastic. I've been a fan for a while, but the art in this book looks especially good. We still have 4 more issues, so . . anything can happen.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
JSA vs Kobra #2 - DC
I'm enjoying this book. This story really started with the Faces of Evil - Kobra book. That's where Jeffrey Burr was replaced by his brother Jason as the leader of Kobra. The biggest difference being that Jason, along with the science and technology part of their attacks, also uses Blood Magic. He's also trying to change the traditional paradigms that his brother, and Kobra followed. His plans are a lot more intricate, devious, well thought out. He knows that to attack a group directly, whether it be the JSA, Checkmate or any of the various other ones, it allows those being attacked to focus there strengths and will to repeatedly stand in their path. He's kind of using guerrilla tactics, attacking many smaller targets, and sacrificing followers to draw their attention away from their real goal. It kind of scary when you think about it. Anyways, these first 2 issues have really served to introduce us to the new face of Kobra, and allowed us into the brain of Jason . . showing us how he thinks. We get his side of the story, through dialogue and narration, as Jason tells us how and why he's doing the things he's doing. Then, on the JSA side, we follow Mr Terrific's narration as he tries to confront the attacks and sort through the mess to find the target or reason for their assaults. Right now, Mr Terrific seems to be one step behind. My only real comment . . really, just an observation, is that this book seems more like a Checkmate book than necessarily a JSA one. The recent Checkmate series has a large infusion of JSA members, so . . sometimes the lines between the 2 groups were kind of blurred. Right now I'm not exactly sure if Kobra's attacking Checkmate as a way to hurt the JSA through it's connections, or . . they're using Checkmate, because of their already planted sleeper agents, and their real goal is to undermine the JSA. Either way it's making for an interesting mini-series. It's definitely not your traditional 'good-guys' vs 'bad-guys', all out fighting, kind of book. You can definitely see that the rules have been changed. To this end, a lot of credit has to go to Eric S Trautmann for his amazing story. He's doing a great job of portraying the belief and resolve that both of these teams have. Also, Don Cramer's pencils are fantastic. I've been a fan for a while, but the art in this book looks especially good. We still have 4 more issues, so . . anything can happen.
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