Countdown to Adventure #2 Review

COUNTDOWN TO ADVENTURE #2 (of 8)
Written by Adam Beechen and Justin Gray
Art by Eddy Barrows & Julio Ferrera and Fabrizio Fiorentino

Another solid outing from a Countdown-related book this week with the second issue of Countdown To Adventure. On top of that, both halves of this comic were good. I'm more interested in the Forerunner and Monarch story, but the Animal Man / Strange / Starfire story is quite good as well.

The first part expands on Animal Man's power problems and confirms my suspicions about the strange outbursts by Champ and Animal Man's son last issue. This disease has spread throughout most of Rann and is affecting people that come in contact with either Animal Man or Starfire on Earth. As Champ didn't start acting that way until after he met Animal Man, I'm picking him as the carrier, espcially since this issue has his mailman affected as well. This seems to be tying back to what happened with the trio in 52 and looks like it could end up a decent little adventure by the end of all this.

The Forerunner story really impressed me this issue. It probably had more to do with the Nazi version of the JLA and my love of alternate reality re-imagined characters, but that doesn't take away from my enjoying the issue. This story also touched on the Monitors and dealt with my complaint from Countdown earlier about why they don't stop Monarch, which was a nice touch, but the main series should deal with it as well. I don't want it to feel like I'm forced to buy the superior tie-in mini-series. It's interesting that the Monitors are afraid Monarch might recruit Prime, as in Superboy Prime I assume, to the cause and I liked the mention of how they fear the previous Crisis happening again if they form an army or have a war with Monarch. Another odd thing is how we found out more about the enemy chasing the Challengers in this story than we did in the actual Search For Ray Palmer book.

Countdown was 2 for 2 this week. While neither are close to Book of the Week status, they were both entertaining reads for once and things are looking up.

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