Joining the other shows, the Legends of Tomorrow return from their holiday break. The show opens by jumping back to the accident that opened the season. Rip runs around a badly damaged Waverider after having time-scattered the other Legends. He clearly has a desperate idea, and he even shuts Gideon down to do it,…
Flash is the next of the hero shows back from the winter hiatus. The voiceover has changed, now focusing on the vision Barry had of the near future when Savitar kills Iris. In addition to giving Barry and company something new to worry about, it gives us the title, “Borrowing Problems From the Future.”…
Back from winter break, Supergirl starts off with “Supergirl Lives!” I’m not sure why they called it that. Was this in doubt? Did someone think she was dead? Was the break that long? There wasn’t anything about her living or dying in this one. The show opens with Supergirl chasing a fleeing van which proves…
Things continue to get strange in Gotham, as seen on “Mad City: Smile Like You Mean It.” The episode draws on several different elements from various points in the Joker’s career, presumably to convince us that this Jerome is supposed to eventually be the Joker. His cult is a lot like the Jokerz gang as…
Aquaman 15 Writer: Dan Abnett Artist: Philippe Briones and Wayne Fruckner Colorist: Gabe Eltab Letterer: Pat Brosseau Cover: Brad Walker, Andrew Hennessy, & Gabe Eltab Aquman’s been dealing with a nasty plot against himself and Atlantis for the last several issues. Black Manta has taken over NEMO (still hate the name) and launched a clever,…
After the government agents came back last week, it’s time for the city workers. Gotham returns from winter break with “Ghosts,” continuing their “Mad City” season. I’m really not wild about shows naming their seasons or even halves, as Agents of SHIELD is presently doing, but maybe that’s just me. At any rate, things are…
After far too long, there’s some good news for Constantine fans. Many of us, myself definitely included, loved the show on NBC, which only lasted one season. Now the CW had announced an animated series on their “Seed” online network, much like the already extant Vixen. Matt Ryan was great on Constantine. After the cancellation, he did a single episode guest shot on Arrow, and then voiced the character in the Justice League Dark animated movie.
Green Arrow has been through a lot since Rebirth started. On the good side, he’s back with Black Canary, undoing one of the DCNU’s many unpopular moves in their war on relationships (yeah, I’m biased). On the bad, he’s lost his company, been framed or all sorts of crimes, nearly been killed several times, his sister turned on him, and his old and deadly enemy Shado turned up again. Oh, and media creep strikes again, and now he’s friends with a black man named Diggle who has a Special Forces background.
Taking its turn in the winter finale line up, the Legends of Tomorrow are stuck dealing with things “The Chicago Way.” Vixen gets her turn at the opening voice-over. I still wonder how asking to be called Legends is better than being called a hero. As one of the characters commented during the big crossover, it sounds really egotistical to me.
Arrow gets their turn for a winter finale in “What We Leave Behind.” I found it to be an uneven episode. The main plot was really well done, very suspenseful, with some good scenes. The flashbacks have finally gotten to the joke people were telling when the show started, looping back now to the first year of Oliver’s career as the Hood/Starling City Vigilante. They also went way out of their way to beat the point into the ground about how the flashbacks connect to the present.
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