Comic Book Case:

Detective Comics #937 (So it's a fan club gone wrong)

Batwoman and company find themselves in the failed Gotham train station that Tim has reworked into his own little Batcave, complete with it's own Bat-Train cause why not? Batwoman wants to go after the Colony alone but Tim says they should go together since they've already taken Batman so what chance does she have alone? Meanwhile, Batman frees himself from captivity and interrogates one of the men for information and he gladly gives it. The Colony has been a thing since Zero Year, when Batman did what the army couldn't and they've been studying him, his gadgets, and his adventures for years and used it to train their own forces. Batman is then dropped (and by that I mean he was knocked through a window by three Bat Soldiers) before Jake Cane who has put static into his soldiers helmets so no one else will hear what they are talking about. Jake says that the Colony exists to fights the League of Shadows, a secret group within Gotham City that was believed to be a myth against the League of Assassins. Batman denies they exist and Jake calls him a fool. They are then interrupted by Batwoman, Spoiler, Orphan, Red Robin, and Clayface who attack them.

This issue was fun and more informative. The Colonly really does feel like a government controlled Batman Incorporated and I think this is what every hero fears will happen at some point; a government perversion of themselves. Jake says Batman is too focused on Gotham when the entire country and by extension the world cold benefit from him. You could replace that with heroes like Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Night Crawler, Flash, etc. It also reminds me a bit of Arkham City and the TYGER security force. The League of Shadows is a fun idea and it got me thinking of Nolan's Batman trilogy where that is the name of the Ra's Al Ghuls group, but the idea that they are some hidiing group that Batman can't see is very Court of Owls but where Court of Owls is a a group within Gotham, controlling Gotham, the League of Shadows sounds more like a group that is ready to move and chooses Gotham and since they are supposed to have a history with the League of Assassins, it would make sense for them to go and fight the city of the man who always bests the league.

 Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corp  #3 (So I should have read the previous Green Lantern story)

Hal Jordan is looking for any sign of the Green Lanterns in the universe or at least where they've gone and he checks the last place they were known to be. Meanwhile Sinestro, looking somehow more old and decrepit, talks to Parralax and he speaks of what they have accomplished, establishing themselves as the force of order in the universe and now it must be maintained by those who would challenge it. Sinestro fuses with Parallax and his body is rejuviated and he takes control of the corp back from Soranik ans issues that the Sinestro Corp must now go and instill order through fear to maintain it. The moment itself is so big that Hal's ring starts freaking out and he can literally feel the fear and Sinestro and as he prepares to fight off two Sinestro Corp members, somewhere else the entire Green Lantern Corp arrives back in their universe.

This issue didn't really have the same feel to it as I think it was going for. Sinestro seems to feel he needs to assert order because he feels that at some point, the universe will take Soranik's altruism for weakness. Sinestro has always been about fear because if people don't fear law and order they won't follow law and order and Soranik seems rightly worried. It seems this is just in Sinestro's nature that he can't let the universe be itself, he needs to control it and as Leia said in "A New Hope", "The tighter your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers." This is true but it does seem as if we are just making things worse to give the Green Lanterns a sort of moral high ground and speaking of which, who wants to be there will be a footnote telling us to read "Edge of Oblivion" to find out how they got back?

Wonder Woman #3 (The issue for the WW fans)

Wonder Woman asks Cheetah for help and Cheetah really does enjoy it for a moment before essentially leaving as Diana tries to get her help in finding Themyscira  but there is still some bad blood between the two of them though more from Cheetah's side. The two of them try to evade the Bouda, creatures devoted to Urzkartaga, the one who cursed her and the Bouda thinks she is their goddess. Meanwhile Steve and his troop decide to go forward and save the other girls taken from the village and finds a forest has appeared before them and upon entering the temple they find the women but also Urkartaga.

There wasn't a lot happening from a story perspective but we got a lot between Cheetah and Wonder Woman. When we last saw Cheetah in both Justice League and Wonder Woman and this feels like the first time she's really come off as a victim of the curse. She talks about how she hates Diana and how she is cursed to feed on flesh which powers up the forest and how the Bouda hunt her and how it is hard to resist the hunger for that flesh, it's all good stuff. Their relationship has never really been one that has been properly fleshed out in recent years and I think that's always hurt WW because she never had a constant villain. For the first time, I actually care about Cheetah and her relationship with Wonder Woman and if that is what this issue set out to do, it did an excellent job.

So the reason there haven't been any new Marvel books being reviewed is because I've cut them for budget reasons but we will be picking them back up again soon. I'll more than likely review the main Civil War 2 title as a whole over single issues and the same with Doctor Strange. Stay cool guys!