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Earth 2 Society #1

Things take an exciting new turn in our new Earth 2 title, this is technically our fourth one since Convergence was more of an Earth 2 story that involved the expanded universe. After arriving on the new Earth given by Telos we are treated to a new world with cities mostly built from the spaceships that brought the surivors of the Darkseid invasion. Dick Grayson, now serving as this Earth's Batman is our main character this issue. We get a lot from this Dick Grayson, hearing again about his wife and son but also how he was found and saved by Alan Scott when the ships were crashing to Earth on the orders of Terry Sloan. 

Things have been going pretty well, Grayson is currently trying to find his son and also tracking down Terry Sloan as the man responsible for the crash landing of the ships on Earth. Sloan mentions a group called Overwatch who serves as an authority on the planet and that they have been compromised while at the same time a character called Johnny Sorrow  claims something else is going on involving Sloan.

Ultimately Earth 2 Society is a fun start, the fans I feel had been waiting for Dick Grayson to become Batman since he ended up with Thomas Wayne Batman in the New 52 Batman's Bat cave. Like any number 1 it serves to establish a tone and a mystery to keep you interested and I have to say I am.

                                                                            Starfire #1

Starfire has been a rather touchy subject for DC lately. Since she isn't part of the Teen Titans in the reboot she was introduced in Red Hood and the Outlaws which fans weren't one hundred percent happy about. Whether the book was good or bad for Starfire remains to be seen but it was clear that readers weren't happy with the direction for her character, fans who mostly heard about Starfire from the Teen Titans cartoon. I can understand the issue but at the same time, new readers have to be able to accept that the character from the cartoon is not the first incarnation of this character and Starfire does things that we may attribute to being "slutty" or promiscuous. Starfire is an alien from her own unique culture which I think was chopped up more for laughs in the cartoon but almost everything she does is a product of her own culture and it falls to the writer to show that in a tasteful way. I feel Starfire is the step in the direction.

Starfire arrives on an island on Earth and introduces herself to Sheriff Gomez, giving her an introduction of herself to both her and the readers which is more in line with her story in Secret Origins, How her planet was invaded, her parents were killed and she was banished and sold as a slave where they experimented on her, awakening her powers which led to her leading a revolt for her freedom. Starfire isn't looking for anything else other than a new life and honestly, it's a bit of a funny story. There is no immediate threat, save for a growing storm on it's way; it's just Starfire trying to adjust to a new life on Earth, which might suggest that Red Hood and the Outlaws never happened but since I didn't read that book all I can do is speculate. It looks like writers have found a middle ground with the two incarnations of Starfire, taking the from the comics and cartoon to make a happy fusion.

                                                                           Batman #41

Thing go full gear as we take a look a the new Batman as he fights against an energy being. Honestly, the battle with the energy being is rather dull when compared to the story of how the new Batman - now James Gordon- came to be. Geri Powers of Powers enterprises calls in Gordon wanting him to be the new Batman they are creating to take the place of the last one who died stopping the Joker. Gordon at first does'n't want to do it and Bullock agrees, both stating the former's age and how the recruits being trained are smarter and better fighter. Powers believes that Gordon has the experience where the company wants a pretty face and Gordon later agrees to do it after seeing how one of the recruits has an 11 month year old. The mission is really just a distraction, not only in the story itself but as a whole. 

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