Writers:
Jimmy Palmiotti
Justin Gray

Artist:
Amanda Conner

Letterer:
Travis Lanham

When we last left our newest favourite heroine, she was naked, unconscious and being prodded with a wide variety of medical equipment. Now if that isn’t every hentai-enthusiast’s dream, I don’t know what is. However, the pleasure gets a bit lessened when you see that the examining doctor is actually a medical doctor instead of a serial rapist with a weird fetish and functionally blind. But it gets even worse, your patient might wake up and throw superpowers at you. But luckily, you have Power Girl with her Power Rack present, too, so we’re back at random hentai. Nice eh?

Well, it gets better. For all those who don’t like tomboys or huge-racked (well, even more huge-racked than it is customary for comics) women, there’s a Goth villainess thrown into the mix, since Terra and Power Girl are out to stop Silver Banshee, the latter being quickly pressed against Power Girls chest. Hurrhurr... it’s a good day to read comics. Too bad that we only get comic grade nudity.

And then, just when the boobs get slightly boring – BAM! – Zombies attack. Hooray! Nothing can be bad with Zombies. Except maybe bears. And definitely talking zombie cyborg bears with lasers on their heads and jetpacks, which is really the only thing that is missing in this book. If it had the “ZCLJ Bears” then it would be the perfect book for its target audience. “Who are they,” you might ask? Simple, they’re the ones that were the target audience back when the Teen Titans Cartoon was cool. Sure, it doesn’t look a lot like that cartoon, but look at it this way: You were about twelve-ish when Teen Titans aired. Fourteen at best. Three years later you’re fifteen to eighteen years old. So boobs and zombies and fights are awesome. And that’s what Terra is: Fighting Zombies, running around naked for about five pages and pressing supervillains to giant chests. Add a bumbling, lost-in-the-world-maybe-villain-maybe-hero to the mix and you’re set. You’ve got everything that moves a teenager.

And that’s precisely what makes the book so much fun. It’s not involved in anything the DCU has to offer – which is, in one word, a mess – and does entertaining things. Granted, it’s not the best comic there is, but it’s fairly well done. Add some young, dynamic and fresh art to the mix and you’re set to attract new readers by the thousands... well, hundreds maybe. But definitely dozens.

Besides, isn’t it a lot of fun to discover a new hero together with the rest of the world? Wondering who this “Atlee” we’re following all over the earth and into the underground kingdoms of our planet?

So read Terra. It’s fun albeit a bit unoriginal. It’s not bad or anything, it’s just that if you’ve been reading comic books for a while, you know the shtick. You still enjoy them, but you know it. It’s like listening to a really good old CD which you can sing along to set to random. You have a couple of ideas of how it might end, but you’re not sure which route they’ll take.

A short “ceterum censeo” since I have to say it: Make Palmiotti the next Editor in Chief of DC Comics. The man at least knows what he’s doing.

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Sullivan E. wrote on November 19, 2008, 17:02

Title: ... Now if that isn’t every hentai-enthusiast’s dream, I don’t know what is. Tentacles.

Dominik B. wrote on November 19, 2008, 17:05

Title: ... Just wait for #3. They'll get to the really odd fetishes there.

Klaus A. wrote on November 19, 2008, 17:41

Title: ... I like boobs.

Dominik B. wrote on November 20, 2008, 03:06

Title: ... Who doesn't? But, damn you comics books, for comic grade nudity. It feels so much more fulfilling when you've seen a gal's boobs... just to get the complete picture.

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