Saturday, January 29, 2011

Zatanna #9

Review: Zatanna manages to break free of the ropes she was tied up in by that puppet last issue. Z attempts to magic the puppet away, but the spell backfires because of her magic was at odds with the magic her father had used to turn Oscar Hampel into the puppet. Instead she simply locks the puppet in a cage, at which time the puppet tells her his/it's origin story. Basically Oscar claims he accidentally killed somebody, Z as a little girl walked in on it, Oscar freaked a bit and grabbed Z, and Z's father turned him into a puppet without knowing the full story. Z isn't quite sure what to believe, but doesn't think turning a man into a puppet was the right move, so she takes the puppet back to her mansion to see if she can find a way to undo her father's spell, which ends the main story. There was also a back-up where teenage Z gets braces, but the less said about that the better...

Thoughts: What the hell is it with Paul Dini and his inability to produce a full story for the comics he writes?! I mean really, I thought it was just a Batman: Streets of Gotham thing, but now the whole 11/12 page story thing he's been doing over in Streets has come to Zatanna... It's completely unacceptable. As much as I like Dini's writing, maybe it's time for him to cut down to maybe one book(if that)a month so he can produce a full story. I mean I liked the main story with Z and the puppet, but the back-up story by Adam Beechen was both unfunny and unnecessary. In it Zatanna got braces and would produce an ungodly amount of spit when she spoke, as well as speaking in an incomprehensible manner. Okay, cool. But Beechen kept BEATING that “joke” into the ground... Z would spit all over people. She'd spit all over windows. She'd spit all over EVERYTHING!!! It was barely funny the first time it happened, and by the 6th or 7th time it had happened I was just wishing the story would end. So while the main story was okay, the back-up was horrible... Please DC, STOP with all of the back-up stories!!!

Score: 5 1/2 out of 10.I'm sorry, but that puppet is damn creepy!
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11 comments:

  1. Falisha AnnJanuary 29, 2011 at 12:48 AM

    Lmao. Okay the opener on your "what you thought" was hilarious. And I haven't gotten to this yet was waiting on the good X-Man's score and I don't know what to say. Lol.

    I'm going to try and read this with no influence of your score. I'll be back with more input! :)Nice reviewing though!

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  2. x-man75January 29, 2011 at 12:52 AM

    I actually liked the puppet story, I really did! It's just Dini's annoying habit of not being able to actually do a full story that made me score this one so low. Looking forward to seeing what you thought about both stories though, Lisha.

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  3. Falisha AnnJanuary 29, 2011 at 12:18 PM

    I'm loving the puppet story as well, surprisingly. Lol, I hope Dini's mess up doesn't ruin it too much lol. And you'll be the first person I tell after I read it tonight after work! :)

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  4. x-man75January 29, 2011 at 1:26 PM

    Excellent, I'll be waiting to hear it!

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  5. x-man75January 29, 2011 at 1:26 PM

    Or read it I guess... :P

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  6. MarcJanuary 31, 2011 at 10:07 PM

    That puppet reminds me of Chucky from the "Child's Play" movies. Based on his appearance alone, I wouldn't be half-surprised if you told me that creepy little thing spent the entire issue hunting small children with a butcher knife.

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  7. x-man75February 1, 2011 at 12:17 AM

    HA! It did spend the early part of this comic threatening Zatanna with a butcher knife!

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  8. MarcFebruary 1, 2011 at 2:03 AM

    So in other words, Zatanna is the only thing standing between that puppet and the world's children. Boy, I really hope her series doesn't get canceled! :P

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  9. x-man75February 2, 2011 at 12:28 AM

    You've obviously seen Child's Play, Marc. You know how horrifying those damn dolls/puppets can be! That damn movie near scarred me for life when I was a kid! :D

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  10. MarcFebruary 4, 2011 at 6:36 PM

    Haha, your parents let you watch that when you were a kid?? They must have really wanted to scar you for life!

    Would you say it worked? :)

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  11. x-man75February 4, 2011 at 8:48 PM

    Yes... Yes it did... My sister had this BIG doll that was in her room, and it's face looked JUST like Chucky's! When I was like 8, I'd steer SO far clear of her room it wasn't even funny! Man was I glad when she got rid of that thing, and by that time I was like 14, and I STILL hated that doll! :D

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