12/28/2010
I admit I was more than a little leery about buying the recently released "Green Lantern / Plasticman: Weapons of Mass Deception" one shot. I really never "got" Plasticman. But hey, this is written by comic book legend Marv Wolfman, no stranger to epic stories and Green Lantern for that matter, having written a small run of the character with Joe Staton back in the 1980's. And the art is by Brent Anderson, often compared to Alex Ross and Neil Adams for his realism. This guy's won both an Eisner and a Harvey award! I love his work on Astro City.
So how bad could it be, right? Right!? Okay, well let's just say I've had to wait a week for this one to settle down in my head before I unleash on what it probably the worst comic I've read in a long, long, long, long time. No amount of holiday cheer is going to make this any better. This is the one book that forces me to break the promise I made myself to keep everything positive on this site and only talk about the good things. But DC had the nerve to publish this stinking turd and charge us $4.99 for it so it deserves all the criticism it gets.
