Y: The last man Vol 7 Paper Dolls

OK all the Monday review for you is Y: The last man Vol 7 Paper Dolls.

This book is the opus of Brian K Vaughn and Pia Guarra (sorry if i spelt that wrong but i am feeling lazy hence no name checking and no cover art)

The art is amazing.  IT is a little different then most vertigo books that seem to make the art an afterthought. Pia is on top of her game.  (There is also a fill in artist but again feeling lazy and whoever it is meshes so well with Pia that it is hard to tell the difference.)

The writing is amazing. Next to preacher i think this is the best thing that Vertigo has ever put out.  This is a great science fiction political satire.  Vaughn really now how to mesh high drama with humor and not let political ideals get in the way of the story telling.  Through all seven volumes the reader really begins to feel for the characters and learn their motives (you think).

The story in this one was just OK. Vaughn has a way with playing with the time stream where each section takes place at a certain point of time but is not necessarily linear. If you go into the book not paying attention to the section where he puts "5 Months Ago" or hell even "30 Minutes ago" you really can get a lost feeling.  There were points in this volume that i found myself getting a little lost but that may be because of my mind set going in.  We learn a lot of the back story of 355 which was great and we also meet a character that we haven't seen in a while and boy has she changed.  There is church allegory (more specifically catholic allegory) that is kind of witty and not off putting if you are a strong believer in that faith. Anyway this volume was good to move the story forward but not nearly as good as Volume 4 which is still my favorite.

No a little side story.  My wife is a big reader (big as in reading a lot not as in size because my wife is a little thing). She is a fan of Jodi Piccoult and Lifetime (you know guys the channel we try to block on our cable list) put on a movie of her latest book "The 10Th Circle." Like the good husband i am I DVR'd it for her and she watched it last night.  As she was watching I read this trade.  In the background i get the gist of her story.  A HS student is distraught over her boyfriend breaking up with her.  She then get drunk at a party and gets raped by said ex boyfriend. The police are investigating it and this guys life is ruined to the point where it looks like he kills himself.  We later find out (do you all mind if i spoil this chick flick) that the mother pushed the kid off the bridge but it was an accident and nothing happened to the family.

No here was the mistake i made.  After the show was over I turned to her and said "Man you sure read a lot of Drivel."  Mind you I said this while i was reading a science fiction book where all males are destroyed by a virus except one and his pet monkey and we come to find out that the monkeys poop is what is the savior of mankind.  man was she pissed. Oh well

Talk to you later,

TJ

New Feature on side

So I was reading Living Between wednesdays today and i was looking over some of the features she has on her blog.  One was a pull list... well... list.  I thought this would be a great edition to my site so yet again i copied her and added it to  the right.

Oh and you guys should read her blog.  She is very witty and funny.  (and she was at heroes con.  Fuck I forgot to go say hi to her.)  You can either reach her by going to the link on the right or going to http://livingbetweenwednesdays.blogspot.com.

Talk to you later.

TJ

Final Crisis 2

OK Today's review is Final Crisis 2

Written by God and Drawn by his son.

JG Jones is an amazing artist.  His pages are great.  I know there was some people who were questioning his ability of doing sequential art after years of doing mostly covers but man this guy has not lost a step.  Each page is great.  The only pages that kind of had me scratching my head was the semi-splash page that involved the Japanese super team.

The writing is amazing. Each character moves into each other and you can read the words even if the art is jumbled (which it is not for the most part) and still understand what is going on. I know , I know usually people use this as a way to judge the art but i am saying the opposite so fucking deal with it.

I am not going to go into the story much but holy fuck.  Remember what i said before (way back about a month ago) that if you are not steeped in DC knowledge then you may want to jump off or read this with wikipedia open... well I take that back. Fuck the DC Universe if you are not aware of the small little section of the DC Universe that I like to call the Kirbyverse then get the fuck off. (or you can still drool over all the pretty pictures.)  There is so much New gods shit in here that I am sporting a chubby reading the whole thing.  I mean Glorious Godfrey shows up. We learn about Granny Goodness, Simyan and (one of my personal favorites) Mokari, we meet sonny samurai who is being speculated to being the most famous of the sons of the new gods. And there are rumors flying around about the Police Detective that is sort of our eyes for part of the story.  And to end it all we see a certain speedster out racing the Black Racer.  Fuck what a good book.

So that is that. Go get the book and read with your wiki.

Talk to you later,

TJ

My Haul and DC Continuity starting to piss me off a little bit.

OK Folks First My haul:

Amazing Spiderman

Superman (looking forward to see what James Robinson does to this title)

Green Lantern (please end this origin retcon and get on with your fucking story Johns)

Flash (yes I'm still reading this)

 and that's it

Yep Nothing else

Did anything else come out?

FUCK Y"ALL OF COURSE I GOT FINAL CRISIS 2.  

This book was so crazy that i need to read it again and then dedicate a whole blog posting about it.

No what i am going to blog about today is all the wacky shit going on with DC Continuity.

Most specifically i am going to be writing Justice League of America, Booster Gold, Death of the New Gods, and Grant Morrison.

OK so I'm sure you read the interview with Grant Morrison where he came out and said Final Crisis was done before (or at least a good part of it) before countdown and death of the new gods even started.  He also said that the continuity he is going with is the continuity from before either of these "events".  OK i am willing to put these two things aside and just go with Morrison Continuity because we all know "In Morrison I Trust."  Well here is a little problem because DC can't decide which they are going with.

This weekend i read Booster Gold 10 and Justice league 21 (i think, its whatever one had the fucking sightings shit on top) In Booster gold He is rounding up the old JLI crew.  When talking to Mister Miracle he is apologizing for Barda. OK in this book Death of the new gods happened.  In Justice league The trinity are talking about expanding the roster and Dr. Choi is brought up.  Bruce doesn't want him because he believes the the spot should be open for Ray who hasn't been found... i repeat who hasn't been found yet... What the fuck you assholes.  Weren't you there in the Darkseid/Orion battle where Ray was coming out of Jimmy.  Wait a minute in your mother fucking world this battle never happened because Orion Dies in issue one.

I don't care if Morrison wants to ignore the continuity of these two things (hell i think i even prefer it) but can you please have your other fucking books tie into this and not let your writers pick it all willy nilly (yes I said Willy Nilly)

Oh well more posting later probably tomorrow.

TJ

X Factor PHC Maddrox

Been a long time for one of these motherfuckers huh?

Well today My review is for the first X Factor Premier Hard Cover : Maddrox Multiple choices. (seriously did we need that much in a fucking title this book has two fucking subtitles)

This is written by Peter David and Drawn by Pablo Raimondi.

The art had a classic crime movie feel. This is perfect because that is what this is. Well its not a fucking movie people its a comic Follow me people Jesus. While I feel that this art wouldn't fit a book like (holy shit i don't think marvel has a light hearted book, what gloomy dark motherfuckers they are over there) Superman. It is perfect for this one.  A little scratchy at times but not too much and great faces.

The writing is pretty good.  I am not ready to anoint Peter David as the next coming of (insert great writer here) he is definitely adequate.  ( i think i just heard 1000 fanboys' mouths gaping open). He writes Maddrox very well  and gives each dupe such a distinct personality, you know it isn't the original but not so different that it becomes distracting.  i just re read that and my writing is very confusing oh well I'm paid to edit not write. (and you can tell by the grammar in my blog that i have duped the fuck out of these people at this job).

The story centers around Jaime Maddrox and his forming of the XXX Mutant investigators.  He is basically getting the band back together when a dupe that has been knifed shows up and dies.  maddrox , having the ability to get the memories of the dupe, see flashes of Chicago and the murderer and decides he needs to investigate.  Well not to spoil to much he finds the killer and all is good including the Cheesy as ending where someone (sorry x folk way to many people for my corroded mind to remember) says "Jaime we changed the name of the agency to something a little different" and we see them closing the door and it says "X Factor"  Almost made me throw-up in my mouth a little bit.

The one thing that annoyed the fuck out of me and actually dragged me out of the books sometimes is You could tell that David was going for a film Noir style with the title.  You can not only get this by reading the book but David has Maddrox say every fucking moment he can " This is so film Noir." I mean come on man,  if your fucking readers are too stupid to not get what you were going for leave them behind.  There was one specific issue where it seemed like in a two page spread maddrox says that 5 times.  Don't treat your readers like an idiot,  i can get it and don't care if someone can't.

Would i recommend this book,  Hmmmmmm.  Well it is right on the fucking cusp falling towards the good read side.  If you can get it at a really good price it is definitely worth the read.

TJ

My Weekend of fun

So this past weekend was spent with the in-laws (yes all of them) and good time were had by all (can you sense the sarcasm in my typing)

All four of my wife's sisters and her parents came over on Saturday and we headed out to long island on Sunday for her grandfathers 80th birthday party.

This is going to be a rant on a couple family members.  First off my Father-in-law.  This is a man with no social skills whatsoever.  He is truly an asshole and i can't stand to be around him.  i am not alone in this as his whole family feels the same way.  Even his parents questioned my mother-in-law whens she was going to marry him.  We were all sitting around BS'ing and doing family shit and all the man could do was look at my book case and pick up books to read.  Then after looking around and noticing that there were no seats in the living room, instead of bringing over the folding chair that he was seated on and joining the conversation, he went to his car and went to sleep.  He probably would have stayed there all night if my mother-in-law hadn't woken him.  

Let me tell you some stories of my father-in-law.  In my first trip to Maryland (a 5 hour drive mind you) with my wife to visit them (i had met them before at college but this was going to be the first "sleep over" visit), we drove down there and went to the zoo, he met up with us at the zoo and asked me where we were staying.  When i said me and Melissa had a hotel room nearby he proceeded with the "when did you guys get married" rhetoric.  I simply walked away my wife walked up to him and said "we're leaving".  That's right folks i drove five hours was there for less then an hour and we turned around and went home. (this is a mild story and there are a lot more that are worse but i will save those)

This shit happened all the time.  man do i hate this guy.  And he gets joy out of being an asshole.  He likes causing people pain psychologically.  This man couldn't die fast enough (did i just type that). (i just found out what i put there originally might have been construed as a death threat so i changed it.  Don't want to go to jail and all)

So they stayed the night at my place. (yay!)  Next morning we all plan to leave 9:30 but her sisters are not there yet so surprisingly her parents are ready to go at that time (did i mention that they are notoriously late for everything).  I tell him the best way to go.  For all of you who don't know the geography of New Jersey and New York, to get from my house to long island is pretty much a straight line if you take the GWB.  So anyway we leave a half hour after her parents leave and show up at her aunts house.  No parents to be seen.  They show up an hour and a half later because he decided to go south and drive through Staten Island and then through Brooklyn.  A fucking triangle when you could have gone in a straight line.  Fuck what an ass.  I believe that is was all done to avoid a $5.00 toll.  

And to cap a beautiful trip off my daughter decided all of a sudden to not like Car rides anymore and screamed for an hour and a half each way.  Man is that fucking draining.  When you go over the GWB there is a sign saying to report suspicious activity.  i was going to call on my daughter because at that fucking moment i truly thought that she was some kind of terrorist that used Sound Diversion techniques.

What a fucking hassle.  

Well talk to all you fuckers tonight on the show.

TJ

My Podcast

Well it has been out a couple days and I just realized that I didn't plug my own fucking show on my blog.

ME and a couple of buddies decided it would be a good idea to get our opinions out there.  My new podcast started last Wednesday with episode negative 3.  Yeah you heard that right negative three.  That should explain to all y'all the irreverence of the motherfucker.  

The show is called the F BombCast and it is released by my good friend James of The Comic Book Savant.  IN the first episode we explain the show a little bit, talk about beer, comics, movies, porno, and whatever our little vulgar hearts desire.

I will warn you now thought that this show is definitely NSFW (or for all you jerk offs that don't speak in letters Not Safe for Work)(i used to be part of that crowd and still am.  I hate shit that are just acronyms.  is our lives that fucking busy that we cannot say the whole words.  Then you come across One that you don't know and spend 20 minutes just thinking what the hell the letters can stand for.) 

Anyway.  Please give it a listen.

You can get it at: www.comicbooksavant.com/cbs/fbcindex.cfm.

Fuck that was annoying, blogger changed the format on how you put links in here and it took me more then the 5 seconds that it normally does.

I am so tired today because my Daughter decided to be an asshole yesterday but just to me and my wife.  She was pleasant as can be to the rest of the fucking family.  Oh well such is being a parent.

Oh yeah before i forget the podcast also has a blog.  it is fbombcast.bogspot.com (there we go back to under five seconds).  On this blog you will not only find my ramblings but also the rambling of the co host Mike and Kevin.  (Which i am told write a lot like me.  Mike writes like me when i am going on a tear and Kevin when i am taking this a bit more seriously). 

Anyway, Talk to you all later.

TJ

My haul

What a great week.  Nice four issue haul, sun is out, Final Crisis Begins, Podcast coming out tonight, Baby gets up at 5 every morning. Well 4 out of 5 is not bad.

What i got this week:

Final Crisis 1 (my shop only had the Lantern Cover so the decision was made for me on which i would be getting)

Batman

Green Lantern

Action Comics

Well you all know that i needed to get right into Final Crisis as soon as i got into the Fucking deli next store to get my sandwich

This book is written by the holy spirit of my Comics Trinity Grant Morrison, (Would he be anything other then the spirit) and was extraordinarily, beautifully, exceptionally (can i though any more superlatives out there) drawn by JG Jones.

Holy Fuck was this the most fun i have had reading a goddamn comic in a long time.   Morrison is starting off in the red (any car junkies read my blog). We start with Anthro just as Morrison said but who the fuck could have expected Metron to be there.  OK I now just realized that if you are new to DC Jump ship now because you will have no clue about half the shit that is on this book but you can still look at the pictures like a waterhead a drool so whatever buy it anyway.  We then Get into Dark Side (yes that is spelled right motherfuckers) from his Mister Miracle mini in 7 soldiers.  We see some demented kids that have learned the anti life.  Stewart and Jordan come across the dead body of Orion.  The Hall of Justice and the Legion of Doom juxtaposed beautifully.   We even get some tattooed man but Not Abel Torent(i think i spelled that right) but i think it was the guy the torant inked in prison during the vertigo series that came out in 1993 (or around that time). I mean holy shit you have had to have been reading everything DC for about 15 years just to wrap your head around any of this shit.  We see Martian Manhunter being tortured by the villains. and it ENDS (you see the big fucking word ENDS there that means i am Going to SPOIL the shit out of this. SPOILERS ASSHOLES TURN AWAY NOW IF YOU DON"T WANT TO KNOW THAT MARTIAN MANHUNTER IS DEAD)(i guess i shouldn't have typed that last part in big letters.  Oh well you know what they say about hindsight).

We are in for a hell of a fucking ride and I am going to enjoy each and every step.

TJ

My Haul

Pretty Average Size week for me.  Have I mentioned that the great guy that is My LCS owner has decided to skimp out a little bit and stop including Bags and Boards to Subscribers.  He now charges you 25 cents if you want it.  He doesn't know it but that has caused me to order more and more on line.  Oh well for him.

Anyway.  I got

Flash

Spawn

Spiderman

With my hour lunch back i now get to go back to my normal routine which was Get my Books.  Bullshit for a little bit with the owner and then go to Jersey Mikes Sub shop and get a roast beef sub and read a book.  This week I chose flash.

No everyone I think is in agreement that Flash has been Fucking Horrible lately and if you do not agree with that then you are a fucking retard.  (Just kidding... kind of).  Well these last two  (maybe three) issues have to deal with  villain named Spin.  All issue this motherfucker keeps saying that he needs to report to Dark Side.  I was pissed.  I mean not only were they bringing Dark Side back but they are doing it in a shitty book where the author can not even spell the fucking name right.  

OK Folks Follow me here.  I just Finished Seven Soldiers of Victory by Grant Morrison about a week ago (i would of reviewed it but i am still trying to figure out who and what i read).

In there one of the soldiers is Mister Miracle.  No Not Scott Free but some Black Man named Shilo Norman (again i think that is his name but that is the extent of the research you get on this blog). It seems that in the not too distant Future in that book the New gods have Died and been reincarnated as thugs and gangsters.  I really don't know it confused the Fuck out of me.  But the reason i am bringing this up is that the Big Bad and Controller of the Sheeda from the Mister Miracle series was A big black man named Dark Side.  And in this Flash Issue The same black man is there Named Dark Side.  

Morrison is a writing genius.  So who gives a fuck if you don't understand 7 soldiers that was really just ht e fucking prologue for what is about to happen in the DCU.  Morrison had this event fucking planned for something like 5 years and everything else that has happened in the DCU is just to fill time and help people connect the fucking Dots.  

Holy Shit i just realised in the puny little brain i have that the Same Artist was on both of these motherfuckers.  Freddie Williams II is the artist on Flash and Mister Miracle.  My mind is beginning to get blown. 

This is going to be a great ride.

TJ

My New Job

Well people i got a new Job.  

I am still working for the same company but in a much different capacity..

For those of you that didn't know, I worked (and still work for) a cigar company.  I have had a love of tobacco since I was fourteen and when i lost my Job as a stock broker i thought it would be perfect (plus they would hire me which is more then I can say about some Banks). Here's the problem the only job they had open was for a sales associate.  Well i took it; got paid shit;  worked horrible hours; got very bored.  So the next logical progression was customer service.  man I thought order-taking was a piece of shit of a job this was horrible.  Not only was I still talking to customers but now i was talking to the assholes with problems.

Again Got very bored doing this.  So the owners assistant was leaving to open his own store and i was thought of for the position.  Flattered, i thought it was great at first.  I dealt with the million dollar and international customers.  This was great for three months and then Bored again.  the problem i was having is that everything i was doing was the same shit just with different people.  Well now a job opened up for the magazine, Cigar Magazine, that i didn't even think to apply for.

My supervisor came to me and said (paraphrasing of course) , I need a writing sample because i can tell you are bored there and i submitted your name for the editorial assistant position of the magazine. Well i was shocked.  I had no skill sets for this job.  My degree is in Finance for Fucks sake.

Well i Interviewed and got the job.  This means a raise, working exclusively on a mac, and most importantly the return of my hour lunch..  Yeah remember the post i had a while ago ranting like a maniac about my half hour lunch and all that shit.  Well strike that reverse it.  I started the job on Monday and for the past two days I have been able to read three comics at lunch as well as eat.  Holy shit is this great.  I am four issues from being caught up.  Good times are ahead for me and the Blog and The podcast.  Oh Wait i wasn't supposed to say anything about that yet.

Talk to you later.

TJ

My Haul

Well sorry for this being a day late but i promise you that you will be happy for the reason why:

What I got this week:

Batman
Spiderman

Yep that's it sorry that is was kind of uneventful.

Also on a side note i decided not to buy Secret Invasion. i will wait for all you Zombies (and that is an affectionate term) to read it and let me know if it was any good. I got the Prelude "Infiltration" in trade so i think that getting this in trade would be a good idea.

And i Urge all of you to Subscribe to the Comic Book Savant Podcast because big things are coming my friends. Not only was I on the last episode but there is a lot more on the way.

That is all i will say for now.

Talk to you later,

TJ

My Haul

Well people yet another week of Nothing. i am so piss poor i cannot think to spend the $12 to get my four books this week.

But here is what i would have gotten if I didn't order online and if I actually had money

DC
Detective Comics 844
Action Comics Annual 11 (i can't believe i am finally getting an end to this fucking story)
Countdown to Mystery 7
Tor 1

Marvel
Amazing Spiderman 558
Secret Invasion 2

Indie
The Boys 18

I am deeply saddened by the Countdown to mystery title. Not because it is bad but quite the contrary. I love the way Steve Gerber put his spin on the Doctor Fate character and his untimely passing will prevent me from getting and end to this tale. Well let me take that back because DC is finishing the story and i think (if i read it correctly) the way they are doing it is classy as shit. From what i have heard is DC is bringing in a whole bunch of guest writers to complete this story as a tribute to Steve.

And for those of you that are completely unaware of Steve i would highly suggest getting the Howard the Duck essential (its only 16.99 at full price people) and give it a read. In my opinion it is one of the few perfect comics.

Talk to you later,

TJ

Penance #5 and Thunderbolts #119

Todays books are somewhat related.

Lets start with Penance Relentless #5 ( of 5)

This Book is written by Paul Jenkens and the art is by Gulacy.

The art is pretty good. Nothing that says wow i want to spend way too much money so that i can own a page from this book. But is is good.

The writting I thought was great. This is a character that Jenkins "invented" during the bullshit that was Civil War Front line. This is one of the only threads from that story that i enjoyed. A lot of people disliked this story because of the characterization of speedball from the new warriors but i never knew that character so i couldn't give less of a fuck about that.

This story is about Penance defecting from the Thunderbolts after the beginning of his psychological profile. WE come to learn that he is on his way to Latveria and to the Prime person that is over there, Doom. Doom has been holding captive a certain person that is the cause of all Robbies pain and suffering and he wants his last licks at this person. When he gets to him a battle ensues and man what a fucking licking Nitro gets. Really great action scenes.

Next up is Thunderbolts 119

This is Written by one of my Trinity, Warren Ellis and the art is by Mike Deodato.

The art is ok. It is a little too phot realistic for me but man can he draw the shit out of action sequences. Some of the panels with swordsman in this are simply beautiful. On the other hand His Venom looks fucking ridiculous. I mean Venom has more back fucking muscles then is possible even if you are infested with an alien Symbiote. Come on man what happened to the clean look of this villian from the McFarlane Michelenie( i really can not spell). That was a villian that almost every one loved. Now he is just a muscle bound freak that is trying to feed his hunger.

The writing is great. I mean it is Warren Fucking Ellis so you know i was going to like it. He just knows how to write. Each character is unique. I also think it helps that each character on this team is a little crazy. If you ever followed Warren Ellis you know he falls on that side of the crazy line as well.

This story centers around the Swordsman and his growing angst against being controlled by Norman Osborn. In the background of the story is Doc Samson's psych profile of Penance. This story culminates with Swordsman getting his sword back and battling his way through thunderbolts mountain. Great Battles and especially great art in his battle with Venom. If you are not reading this book i would look for the back issues of the ellis run becasue sadly he is leaving the book soon becasue (his words) "he is getting bored by it".

My only problem with this and this is a problem i have with a lot of comics is when the hell is the Penance Mini taking place in regards to this thunderbolts arc. For gods sake it seems like Robbie is the sane one in this story while in his mini he is off the fucking deep end. I love in the beginning of stories a little editorial direction. A nice note like "this takes place after thunderbolts 119" would have been nice. I know that this is a little fan boy of me but Fuck that is what i am and I like my continuity in place.

That little problem didn't stop me from enjoying the fuck out of these issues though and I would suggest that y'all pick this up in trade.

Talk to you later,

TJ

New DC Chalkboard

OK People We have a new chalk board to discuss. This was found on the top of the DC Nation page in this weeks DC comics. One of the most fun things i did during 52 was look over and over again at Rip Hunters Chalkboard in issue 14(i think) and try to analyse everything on there.

OK so this is what is on the board: (i will put my guesses in parenthesis)

In Red on the board is:

1. Submit (obviously has to do with Darkseid or Mongul)
2. Evil Won ( see above)
3. Resist (someone will be tempted but who)
4. 3 Reborn (Barry, Bart, Crispus Allen)

In Black:

1. Who is Wonder Dog? (unfortunately i think this may be the reintroduction of the wonder twins)
2. 100% Alien (superman going back to his Kryptonian Roots possibly superman of Earth 1)
3. I Am batman? (Bruce questioning himself or Possibly Dick taking over the mantle)
4. Girl Fight (Battle between Supergirl and Mary Marvel)
5. 1000 / 3 = 1 (obviously the Legion)
6. There is no one Yet (i have no clue)
7. The Traitor among us ( i think that there is some bad dude in JSA)
8. The Son Rises (Damian or possibly the one Supes adopted or maybe Tim taking over the role of Batman)
9. He is the Force (Bart Allen)
10. Mercy Ruling (Monguls Mercy Plants or possibly libra)
11. The Dead Shall Rise (Black Lantern Corps)
12. Sightings all around us (no clue)
13. Who Questions the Question (Libra)
14. No 2 For you (Someone trying to get to earth 2 but failing)
15. You can go home again (possibly Prime actually getting to his home again)
16. He never left hell (Neron or dare I say it Etrigan)
17. TT Have no Reception (Titans losing a member possibly Tim to become Batman)
18. First Boy/Last Boy (morrison has already said that the first panel will have Anthro and the last panel will have Kamandi)
19. 4 Times as red (Wally, Bart, Barry and Jay together again)
20. Murder/Suicide Father/Son (hmmm this one intrigues me alot. I have a feeling it has to do with Damian but not sure)
21. Post no Bills (no clue)
22. Rocket vs satellite (could be Rocket Red Returning to take out Brother Eye)
23. Paper not Plastic (we all need more Plastic Man)
24. He Wakes the world ends (Black Hand)
25. No Glory No Gold (could mean a return to his old ways for Booster because he sees that there is no way he can do good without screwing with the time stream but i have a hope because of the Signing of Giffer that this may be a return of General Glory)
26. Best Woman for the Job a Man ( the introduction of the Olympian)
27. I Am Bruce Wayne? (Bruce realising that he can never retire because he is really batman and bruce is the facade)
28. Superman : Red or Blue? ( i only hope that this is not anything to do with what it sounds like)
29. JSA/1=2 (A traitor in the JSA will divide the time in half)
30. The long equation on the bottom is the Anti Life Equation.
31. 52-1=0 (one earth is the lynch pin to the whole multiverse)

Well those are my guesses for now. They can change at the drop of a hat.

please comment on what you think.

Talk to you later,

TJ