Earth Two #13 – Review

By: James Robinson (story), Yildiray Cinar (pencils), Rob Hunter (inks), Pete Pantazis (colors)

The Story: Well, this is a first—someone volunteering to enter the pits of Hell.

The Review: I have no idea who will take over this series once Robinson leaves in a few months, but I’m optimistic enough to hope that he or she will be an improvement over the thoroughly mediocre material we’ve gotten for the last few months.  Until then, however, we’ll have to live through Robinson’s plodding, bulky writing a little longer.  It’s tempting (for me at least) to just temporarily step out on this series until the switch takes place.

Tempting, but imprudent, ultimately.  Robinson has his faults, but you can always be assured that every issue will have some kind of important information or development.  Substantively, or conceptually, there’s little wrong with what Robinson does.  It’s just the matter of execution here he has serious problems.