Hello everyone, Comic Kathy once again to bring you a preview of a new DC book.
Last week the new 52 ended. I looked over all the books, with my review of Justice League coming this weekend, depending on how things go in real life. But this week saw the start of 2 mini series. The first is one about the Penguin. I did not pick it up because, well, I didn't. I only semi like the Penguin as a character and that does say a lot, seeing how the Penguin goes from pudgy man in suit, to Gotham under world business man, to creepy monster man. I might still pick it up but not now.
No, today I wanted to share with you all my feelings on the new Huntress mini series. As I am sure you must know by now, I got into the character Huntress from Gail Simone's hit title Birds of Prey. Seeing as how Huntress was not in the new 52 Birds, I did wonder what she was doing. Well thanks to this book I now know.
This book was writen by Paul Levitz. Who is this you ask? Well Mr. Levitz was the man who gave us the basic character that Huntress is today. You see, back in the day there were 52 Earths all in the same place just at different dimensions. Most of these Earths are just there, never really looking into what goes on there. But there was an Earth that was very big. This was Earth-2. Earth-2 was the home of the Justice Society of America and one of the members of this group was the first Huntress. The person who first wrote this incarnation of Huntress was Paul Levitz. So yeah, this book was written by the guy who first wrote her. Now there have been a number of changes to the Huntress character over the years and Paul takes them into account. This Huntress is not the Huntress he first wrote for. But like Paul Dini writing the Gotham City Sirens, Paul Livitz does a great job of still knowing how to write for the girl he made.
The art work is very well done. The characters, backgrounds, and panels are all well defined from each other and the coloring is bright and easy to look at, even in the night scenes. Nothing feels like it blends together and becomes one big blur like it does in some Gotham city comics.
The story, from what I can tell anyway, is about Huntress going to Italy to stop some crime traffic that is on its way to her home in Gotham. Of course nothing is as easy as that and Huntress finds herself slowly getting in over her head. Only time will tell if she can rise up or drown under this case.
Like I said, this is only the first issue of the mini series. The book is going to go on for a total of 6 issues and if the rest are anything like this first book, then I look forward to reading more in the future.
Overall: Huntress is so worth your time. Even if you know nothing about the character, this book and the new DC relaunch is a good place to start for new readers. Of course, if you do like her, then I still encourage you to research Huntress's true history. Her life before the relaunch that is.
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