What do Batman fans think of Earth Two and Worlds' Finest? SPOILERS

[mrrightnow]

I loved Earth 2. Nicola Scott's art has gotten really, really amazing! Also, I loved seeing Wonder Woman's bloody death - too cool. Also, my favorite Flash showed up looking all sexy at the end (kinda), so I am hooked.

I was lukewarm on World's Finest. George Perez's art doesn't do much for me anymore, but the writing was pretty good. I'll give it a few more issues before deciding whether to keep with it.

[Fused]

I hated World's Finest because of everything the Huntress book has dumped on it, and I'm not a huge fan of Maguire or Perez these days - I think they'd have been much better off just putting To on the book still, because his art is sensational.

Marcus To feel kind of wasted on Batwing because he's so great drawing beautiful ladies doing awesome things. I don't think even I would be able to resist WF with To on it.

[Fate's Faith]

Finally got the chance to read these two. I went in expecting to love World's Finest. Been a huge Huntress fan for years and always liked Power Girl's ability to just jump into action and think about it later. With Earth 2, I was a bit worried about this 'reintroduction' of the JSA characters since they've been pretty much the same characters forever. Well, what a surprise I had.

Earth 2 was great. I didn't mind seeing the Trinity perish because they've never been what I thought of as the JSA. I really liked the idea of the war with Apokolips in which the world is saved at the cost of all their heroes (I think I read that right... these were the only known heroes on Earth 2?) and its been years since their death. And then we move into a new age of heroes and will get to see them born from the beginnings. Al, Alan and Jay have one thing I always love in my heroes, real lives behind those masks. Really great first issue.

Then we come to my other surprise. I was so underwhelmed by World's Finest. The burning of the Bertinelli passport starts the issue. Like I stated above, I love my heroes to have real lives behind their masks but this version of Huntress doesn't have one. We get a hint at Karen's (which I think as been too ignored for years) but now I'm not sure if its going to be any more than lip service that its been in the past. Frankly, I came away from reading the issue to not care about either. I will keep reading looking for improvement but definitely not a great start.

I came out of Earth 2 wondering how Al's mission goes. If Joan has really left Jay for good. How cool it is to see Alan as a business man. And of course, how they become heroes. With World's Finest, I couldn't even connect with how if must feel for them to be stuck on an alien earth. I didn't make peace with the idea of Helena Bertinelli had to die for this version of the Huntress to live to see her this boring.