FOREVER EVIL: ROGUES REBELLION # 1 Review

Quick review for DC Comics' FOREVER EVIL: ROGUES REBELLION # 1 by Brian Buccellato, Patrick Zircher and Scott Hepburn.

There's a nice premise hidden in this little gem of a book. Never mind that it's the New 52 version of the Flash's Rogues, there's still some hardcore Rogues action here in the book written by Flash-man Brian Buccellato together with switching art team of Patrick Zircher and Scott Hepburn.

Captain Cold returns to Central City to find it in ruins in the wake of the events of the Gorilla Grodd issue of Flash for 'Villains Month'. Snart together with his gang of miscreants venture towards the hospital in the hopes of checking on Snart's sister and then more bad guys arrive and a fight ensues. The issue also ends with a hook with the Rogues having the need to deal with these guys from the Crime Syndicate.

Story and dialogue seems serviceable enough thanks to the plotting of Buccellato. I'm good with that but the art for this issue is what's truly polarizing. When you pop open the page, you see this gorgeous recreation of that infamous scene from FOREVER EVIL with the Crime Syndicate handing important trophies from the fallen Justice League teams. Zircher's work is always top notch. This guy's been on my radar ever since I saw his interior art for "Secret Avengers" years back.

A couple pages later and I'm kind of dissuaded due to the really cartoony artwork provide by Hepburn. It's nice and cutesy but it fails in the sense that you've been handed something from Zircher and the art styles suddenly change. It's confusing and a bit sad.

hey and look, they even brought in Plastique which was last scene in TRINITY WAR Chapter 1.

While FOREVER EVIL: ROGUES REBELLION # 1 might have flaws, I was still entertained by this. Hopefully the succeeding issues really shine as opposed to just glowing, which this issue did.

VERDICT: C

The Flash Creative Team Jumps Over to Detective Comics # 28

The creative team behind DC Comics' "THE FLASH", Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato has now moved on to DETECTIVE COMICS come February 2014.

"We want to bring him closer to his roots and be more of a street-level type of hero. His superheroics will still be present, but the investigative part of Batman will be at the forefront," Manapul told USAToday.com.

There are doubts as to whether these two creators can pull off some amazing stuff like their 24 plus issues run on "The Flash" (no pun intended) but Buccellato promises that it will be different from the world they created for the scarlet speedster and Central City.

Source: Newsarama

DC Officially Announces Forever Evil Plus Tie-ins and More

As part of their annual gimmick every September, DC Comics has officially announced a new miniseries plus several tie-ins featuring the heavy hitting villains of the DC Universe and it's entitled "Forever Evil". 

The miniseries will run for seven issues and will touch base with most of the New 52 characters including Teen Titans and Suicide Squad. Johns says that this event rises from the fall out between the three Justice League teams in Trinity War. 

Aside from the seven-issue miniseries, there's also a couple of tie-ins including a Rogue-centric story over with The Flash with Brian Buccellato and Patrick Zircher. And then there's also another set of issues featuring Batman's rogues entitled Forever Evil: Arkham War featuring Batman and Robin writer Peter Tomasi and Scot Eaton featuring an all-out brawl between Batman's rogues. 

Finally there's a third, five-issue title entitled Forever Evil: A.R.G.U.S. which will chronicle Steve Trevor's investigation about his organization (you've got the freaking RED ROOM and BLACK ROOM and it's only now you decide to investigate?). This one will be written Matt Kindt who will also be taking the helm for Justice League of America. Meanwhile Johns will still be handling the main Justice League book. 

Heavy Duty Threats in WTF Covers for Superman and The Flash

Looks like both the Flash and Superman are up for some serious challenge with the reveal of the full WTF gatefold covers for The Flash # 19 and Superman # 19 as they are set to square off against the New 52 Reverse Flash and Orion.

Check out the full covers after the cut...

The Coolest Moment from The Flash # 14

Truth be told the current "Flash" book is good but it's got a lot of things going on that people tend to get confused over continuity stuff. However there's one bit in The Flash # 14 that makes it a totally "OK" book for me.

Of course this was written and illustrated by Francis Manapul with the help of Brian Buccellato. In this issue all hell breaks lose in Keystone and Central as Gorilla Grodd's gorilla forces invade the Flash's city. Add the problem of the now lethal Rogues running around as well as Iris West trapped inside the Speed Force and you got a really wacky story.