52 Week #2

52 (Single Issues) #2

by Geoff Johns, Keith Giffen (Illustrator), Joe Bennett (Illustrator)

Ralph Dibny begins to investigate the defilement of his wife's grave, while celebrity superhero Booster Gold plays detective to solve the mystery of the apparently altered timeline. Meanwhile, Renee Montoya might not want answers, but she must face the Question!

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics

26 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 17, 2006

About the author

Geoff Johns originally hails from Detroit, Michigan. He attended Michigan State University, where he earned a degree in Media Arts and Film. He moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990s in search of work within the film industry. Through perseverance, Geoff ended up as the assistant to Richard Donner, working on Conspiracy Theory and Lethal Weapon 4. During that time, he also began his comics career writing Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. and JSA (co-written with David S. Goyer) for DC Comics. He worked with Richard Donner for four years, leaving the company to pursue writing full-time.

His first comics assignments led to a critically acclaimed five-year run on the The Flash. Since then, he has quickly become one of the most popular and prolific comics writers today, working on such titles including a highly successful re-imagining of Green Lantern, Action Comics (co-written with Richard Donner), Teen Titans, Justice Society of America, Infinite Crisis and the experimental breakout hit series 52 for DC with Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid. Geoff received the Wizard Fan Award for Breakout Talent of 2002 and Writer of the Year for 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 as well as the CBG Writer of the Year 2003 thru 2005, 2007 and CBG Best Comic Book Series for JSA 2001 thru 2005. Geoff also developed BLADE: THE SERIES with David S. Goyer, as well as penned the acclaimed “Legion” episode of SMALLVILLE. He also served as staff writer for the fourth season of ROBOT CHICKEN.

Geoff recently became a New York Times Bestselling author with the graphic novel Superman: Brainiac with art by Gary Frank.

Reviews

[Danielle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this review and more on my blog, uncovered-books.

Week 2 of 52 sets off in a dark place. We find Ralph Dibny in a graveyard after being called there by the groundskeeper because someone had vandalised his wife’s tombstone. We find out a tad more on his backstory, as he was very much a mystery in the first week’s issue. Once again the art style used in this panels reflects where he is mentally at the time, starting off very dark before transitioning towards the red.

We find Booster Gold attempting to fix Skeets, who at the end of the first week’s issue went haywire and went offline, something that has never happened before. He has gotten the foremost authority on Android A.I., Doctor Magnus to help him fix Skeets. Since Booster Gold is from the future and thus knows how events happen, he is very shocked to not know why things have not gone as they did in the past, and the artwork reflects this confusion and darker tone that he is starting to take on in private. In the public’s eye though, he is still the same happy-go-lucky Booster Gold that they know and love.

We also get some follow on from the faceless man that was introduced at the end of the first week’s issue. He clearly has an ulterior motive which currently is unknown.

Week 2 followed on from Week 1 very well and is leaving the right amounts of loose-ends to keep you wanting more.

[Steven Shinder · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice to see Renee get some focus in this.

[Vijay Williams · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh so AceVane wasn't that far off with that The Question skit huh?

[toastie ʚ:ɞ · Rating 3 out of 5]

୨୧ 52 Week 2 ୨୧
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❝𝐎𝐧 𝐊𝐫𝐲𝐩𝐭𝐨𝐧, 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞. 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡, 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫: 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.❞

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I loved the way that this one ended! Ralph’s plotline is intriguing & I’m curious to see what happens with Renee! :)

[Ellie Hope · Rating 2 out of 5]

26/100