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Batman/Superman: World's Finest (Single Issues)
Batman/Superman: World's Finest (2022-) #8
RECKLESS YOUTH continues as Superman and Batman struggle to mentor the new Boy Thunder! The Key has drawn the World's Finest team into an impossible dilemma unlike any they've ever faced when the entire city of Metropolis goes into a deadly lockdown!
28 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 18, 2022
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Mark Waid
3,182 books1,272 followersMark Waid (born March 21, 1962 in Hueytown, Alabama) is an American comic book writer. He is best known for his eight-year run as writer of the DC Comics' title The Flash, as well as his scripting of the limited series Kingdom Come and Superman: Birthright, and his work on Marvel Comics' Captain America.
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November 3, 2022
Continuing out of 7, we see the Boy Thunder (with Robin skeptical of the name 😄) training with the Teen Titans and then off with Superman. Nice issue of growth and a glimpse at David's demons.
June 4, 2023
6/4/23
October 19, 2022
Continues to be the most fun and well drawn superhero book on the racks
January 29, 2023
Really hitting its stride here
October 24, 2022
Issue #1 started off so epicly but then the series felt a bit like it was coasting... until issue #8! This was an exciting and action packed issue that also promises a big villain and plotting that's right up my alley! Haha!!
February 8, 2023
The New Classic Continues
Mark Said knows how to write comics with a classic superhero feel. Dan Mora k owe now to draw comics with at same classic flair. Together, their powers combine into a World's Finest team working on World's Finest. It really everything that I love about old school comics, crafted with more modern sensibilities
Mark Said knows how to write comics with a classic superhero feel. Dan Mora k owe now to draw comics with at same classic flair. Together, their powers combine into a World's Finest team working on World's Finest. It really everything that I love about old school comics, crafted with more modern sensibilities
November 15, 2022
Superman saves Costa Rica!!!
Creative Team
Writer: Mark Waid
Illustrator: Dan Mora
COSTARRICAN ARTIST
Usually I don’t make review of a comic book single issue unless it’s a self-contained story but not matter that this particular issue is part of a larger story arc, I wanted to make a review since it’s drawn by a comic book illustrator born in Costa Rica, which is also my native country, but also, in this comic book issue…
…SUPERMAN SAVES COSTA RICA!…
…since in a part of the developed story here, Superman along with a trainee hero, they go to Costa Rica, specifically to the Arenal Volcano in San Carlos, and stopped an eruption.
This event in the comic book issue was national news in my country where in two of the three major newspapers, appeared a full page article about it and even in one of them, there was a mention in the front page.
You may think that it’s something silly, but honestly, it’s not often when a super-hero, and not any super-hero, but Superman, the Man of Steel, appears in a Costarrican location, making a super rescue.
Mark Waid is the writer and Dan Mora was responsible to the art and Waid let him to choose which volcano to portrait in the issue, and obviously since Dan Mora is from Costa Rica, didn’t hesitate to choose a volcano from my country. There are other known volcanoes, even Poas Volcano is the same as relevant but Dan Mora explained in one of the newspaper articles that he chosen Arenal Volcano since it was visually more recognizable.
Dan Mora in this run of Batman / Superman: World’s Finest had include even Costarrican coffee in scenes where Bruce Wayne is visiting some Gotham City coffee shop.
Dan Mora is already a top name in the comic book industry, he won the Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award at San Diego Comic-Con's Eisner Awards.
Dan Mora has been working with DC Comics and Marvel Comics on several major titles as inner work penciller along of being a fan-favorite cover artist too.
Dan Mora has been working with Boom Studios in titles such as Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (where he co-created the Pink Slayer) and also he is co-creator of Klaus along with Grant Morrison.
Dan Mora since he works from Costa Rica, he attends some comic book events here, and I’ve been lucky to get signed all stuff that I’ve been able to buy of his work, including this very comic book issue. My brother knows him personally better than me, since my brother works in one of the comic book stores organizing events, but I was able to chat with him once and I can tell you that he is a wonderful human being.
NOW ABOUT THIS COMIC BOOK
In this issue (which is the second part of a story arc titled “Strange Visitor”), you have Boy Thunder, the sole survivor of a doomed parallel Earth, where superheroes there only exist on comics, TV and movies, and he was the only superpowered persone there, and now he is being trained by Superman and Batman.
I think that this character is very much like Superboy Prime and since Wonder Girl has a bad feeling about him, I wouldn’t be surprised if Boy Thunder ends very much like Superboy Prime, but next issues of this story arc will tell.
The Teen Titans has been participating in the training along with choosing his super-hero name.
Superman, Supergirl, Batman and Robin have been close to the training of Boy Thunder.
Right after saving Costa Rica from a volcano eruption, Batman calls Superman and Boy Thunder to give assistance at Gotham City since it’s suffering a city-wide attack from the villain known as The Key.
The comic book issue is quite exciting, with an incredible roster of heroes and villains (some of them I am not mentioning to avoid spoilers) and certainly I am truly glad of being able to get it.
Creative Team
Writer: Mark Waid
Illustrator: Dan Mora
COSTARRICAN ARTIST
Usually I don’t make review of a comic book single issue unless it’s a self-contained story but not matter that this particular issue is part of a larger story arc, I wanted to make a review since it’s drawn by a comic book illustrator born in Costa Rica, which is also my native country, but also, in this comic book issue…
…SUPERMAN SAVES COSTA RICA!…
…since in a part of the developed story here, Superman along with a trainee hero, they go to Costa Rica, specifically to the Arenal Volcano in San Carlos, and stopped an eruption.
This event in the comic book issue was national news in my country where in two of the three major newspapers, appeared a full page article about it and even in one of them, there was a mention in the front page.
You may think that it’s something silly, but honestly, it’s not often when a super-hero, and not any super-hero, but Superman, the Man of Steel, appears in a Costarrican location, making a super rescue.
Mark Waid is the writer and Dan Mora was responsible to the art and Waid let him to choose which volcano to portrait in the issue, and obviously since Dan Mora is from Costa Rica, didn’t hesitate to choose a volcano from my country. There are other known volcanoes, even Poas Volcano is the same as relevant but Dan Mora explained in one of the newspaper articles that he chosen Arenal Volcano since it was visually more recognizable.
Dan Mora in this run of Batman / Superman: World’s Finest had include even Costarrican coffee in scenes where Bruce Wayne is visiting some Gotham City coffee shop.
Dan Mora is already a top name in the comic book industry, he won the Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award at San Diego Comic-Con's Eisner Awards.
Dan Mora has been working with DC Comics and Marvel Comics on several major titles as inner work penciller along of being a fan-favorite cover artist too.
Dan Mora has been working with Boom Studios in titles such as Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (where he co-created the Pink Slayer) and also he is co-creator of Klaus along with Grant Morrison.
Dan Mora since he works from Costa Rica, he attends some comic book events here, and I’ve been lucky to get signed all stuff that I’ve been able to buy of his work, including this very comic book issue. My brother knows him personally better than me, since my brother works in one of the comic book stores organizing events, but I was able to chat with him once and I can tell you that he is a wonderful human being.
NOW ABOUT THIS COMIC BOOK
In this issue (which is the second part of a story arc titled “Strange Visitor”), you have Boy Thunder, the sole survivor of a doomed parallel Earth, where superheroes there only exist on comics, TV and movies, and he was the only superpowered persone there, and now he is being trained by Superman and Batman.
I think that this character is very much like Superboy Prime and since Wonder Girl has a bad feeling about him, I wouldn’t be surprised if Boy Thunder ends very much like Superboy Prime, but next issues of this story arc will tell.
The Teen Titans has been participating in the training along with choosing his super-hero name.
Superman, Supergirl, Batman and Robin have been close to the training of Boy Thunder.
Right after saving Costa Rica from a volcano eruption, Batman calls Superman and Boy Thunder to give assistance at Gotham City since it’s suffering a city-wide attack from the villain known as The Key.
The comic book issue is quite exciting, with an incredible roster of heroes and villains (some of them I am not mentioning to avoid spoilers) and certainly I am truly glad of being able to get it.
June 23, 2023
La historia de Boy Thunder se está desarrollando de fábula más allá del reclamo fácil de un "sideckick para Superman". Incluso seguimos teniendo esa sensación de potencial alarma aunque en este número se demuestre un heroísmo puro pero desesperado surgido del trauma y la tragedia (para lo que Supergirl volverá a recordarnos su background igual o más trágico que el de Clark).
Gotham vuelve estar asediada por un supervillano ("un clásico") que pone tan en jaque la ciudad que hace falta más superayuda. Pero ahora solo cabe preguntarse si este ataque ha sido solo cosa de The Key o hay alguien más implicado.
Gotham vuelve estar asediada por un supervillano ("un clásico") que pone tan en jaque la ciudad que hace falta más superayuda. Pero ahora solo cabe preguntarse si este ataque ha sido solo cosa de The Key o hay alguien más implicado.
April 1, 2023
Damn Waid just can't miss. So many great moments, and this new David Kid (Boy Thunder? Love it) working to build himself up to be a hero, but obviously something terrible happened in his time. All of this is great, and Kara at the end hit me in the feels. God I love this series.
November 16, 2022
It's crazy how one comic can be so good.
January 5, 2023
Fast-paced with both and serious moments.
March 23, 2023
David is a tad boring but feels like he is being set up to be a villain, especially with the ending bringing Joker into it.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 13, 2023
Wow this was an amazing issue cant wait for the next one.
December 20, 2024
This one was a bit more all over the place. Love the colors, at least.
January 17, 2023
The focus for this issue is squarely David, Superman's new sidekick, Boy Thunder. The issue begins with the teen hanging out with the first iteration of the Teen Titans, making friends, and testing out some of his new abilities. You can see that he's nervous to begin with, but soon starts to settle into the idea that he could be a super hero.
This is something that we see a little later on as he flies around with Superman, learning how he does things, and what it means to actually be out there helping people. However, the two of them are soon called in to help in a major situation when everyone in Gotham falls under the effect of a psychotropic drug that leaves everyone afraid of doorways and openings, essentially trapping people wherever they are. Whilst this doesn't seem like too bad of an issue on the surface, it means that patients are being left to die in hospital rooms, and people are trapped in burning buildings with no way out and no help coming.
The two of them fly off to Gotham to help save the day whilst Batman directs them from inside the cave, under the effect of the drug himself. When the two of them have to split up David finds himself having to save a group of trapped miners from a cave collapse. The situation calls for him to have to be very careful about using his powers, and in a moment of panic he runs away. Remembering the trauma of losing literally everyone on his Earth, he flies back in and manages to save the day.
However, this starts to point towards the fact that David hasn't been completely honest with the supers about what happened on his world, and his survivors guilt might be more actual guilt if the small flashbacks we get can be believed.
This issue is really well done, and the focus on David really helps to build him up as a character. We know that this can't end well, as Superman doesn't have a Boy Thunder sidekick, so making us care about David more, giving him depth and flaws, is both great, and feels incredibly mean. I can't help but feel that the eventual loss we get from him is going to hit a bit harder now because of this issue.
We also get a wonderful moment with Supergirl this issue too, as she has a conversation with David where she tells him about her experiences, of how she lost her world and family as a teen, and the kind of pain she understands that he's carrying. It can often be easy to forget what Kara went through because of how well she's adjusted to Earth, but she went through some serious trauma that could mess you up in a lot of ways. It's nice that this has been acknowledged, and that this version of her kind of has a reason for sometimes coming across a bit cold.
The artwork on this issue is wonderful as always, with Dan Mora bringing the characters to life beautifully. Everyone looks really good, the action is dynamic, and somehow David;s ridiculous costume doesn't look completely silly on him.The Key is also presented in a very sinister way too, which I was not expecting.
Overall this is a great entry in a series that has been consistently good, and whilst I'm loving this story I'm very worried about what might come next.
This is something that we see a little later on as he flies around with Superman, learning how he does things, and what it means to actually be out there helping people. However, the two of them are soon called in to help in a major situation when everyone in Gotham falls under the effect of a psychotropic drug that leaves everyone afraid of doorways and openings, essentially trapping people wherever they are. Whilst this doesn't seem like too bad of an issue on the surface, it means that patients are being left to die in hospital rooms, and people are trapped in burning buildings with no way out and no help coming.
The two of them fly off to Gotham to help save the day whilst Batman directs them from inside the cave, under the effect of the drug himself. When the two of them have to split up David finds himself having to save a group of trapped miners from a cave collapse. The situation calls for him to have to be very careful about using his powers, and in a moment of panic he runs away. Remembering the trauma of losing literally everyone on his Earth, he flies back in and manages to save the day.
However, this starts to point towards the fact that David hasn't been completely honest with the supers about what happened on his world, and his survivors guilt might be more actual guilt if the small flashbacks we get can be believed.
This issue is really well done, and the focus on David really helps to build him up as a character. We know that this can't end well, as Superman doesn't have a Boy Thunder sidekick, so making us care about David more, giving him depth and flaws, is both great, and feels incredibly mean. I can't help but feel that the eventual loss we get from him is going to hit a bit harder now because of this issue.
We also get a wonderful moment with Supergirl this issue too, as she has a conversation with David where she tells him about her experiences, of how she lost her world and family as a teen, and the kind of pain she understands that he's carrying. It can often be easy to forget what Kara went through because of how well she's adjusted to Earth, but she went through some serious trauma that could mess you up in a lot of ways. It's nice that this has been acknowledged, and that this version of her kind of has a reason for sometimes coming across a bit cold.
The artwork on this issue is wonderful as always, with Dan Mora bringing the characters to life beautifully. Everyone looks really good, the action is dynamic, and somehow David;s ridiculous costume doesn't look completely silly on him.The Key is also presented in a very sinister way too, which I was not expecting.
Overall this is a great entry in a series that has been consistently good, and whilst I'm loving this story I'm very worried about what might come next.
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