Fallen Angel: Return of the Son TP

This looks like the final book for the Fallen Angel series by Peter David. In this collected miniseries, the history of Fallen Angel since the beginning of time, of her creator, of her son, and of the deal she made to have her son back is revealed. The heroin rebels against and destroys the status quo of the series in a very interesting way. The religious overtones are quite nice and the whole thing is well written, fun to read, and consistent with what has been going on before. It also provides closure to the whole series. The drawing is also quite nice to look at. Recommended, together with the omnibuses for the remainder of the series.
Story: 4
Art: 4
Overall: 4

Flashpoint [Hardcover]

This book collects the mini series Flashpoint, which is about timer paradoxes and faster than light objects in the context of super-heroing. The original Flash wakes up on morning and suddenly the world has become completely different than it was the night before. He lost his powers and his life is completely different. In general, the worl is a much darker place than before. In the book The Flash must figure out what caused the change and revert it, if he can. He does both and finds that some times we are our own worst enemy. I am not crazy about this book. The story and the art are competent, but no more than that. Nevertheless this is probably an important series in the genesis of the new DC universe. If you have nothing better to do, go and read it.
Story: 3
Art: 3
Overall: 3

Lagrimas en la Lluvia

This is a Spanish graphic novel that adapts a Sci-fi book by the same name. In brief this is the story of a future where human-like androids have been developed and live side by side with humans. Said androids have the same rights as regular human beings. They also have a limited life span, just as PK Dick's replicants. We enter the world at a time where human-replicant racism is at a high and elections are close. What seems like a series of terrorist attacks by androids takes society to the brink of a civil war. An android female detective and a human police officer investigate the case and have their world views and lives shaken during the process. The adaptation is fairly well done and the drawing is quite nice. If you read Spanish you could do worst than read this book.
Story: 3.7
Art: 3.5
Overall: 3.6

Feynman [Hardcover]

Jim Ottaviani has been writing comics about scientists for more than a decade now. He does a good job and so do his artistic collaborators. In this case, he and Leland Myrick tell the life history of Richard Feynman. They base heavily on the books about Feynman. The format that Ottaviani choose is very similar to that of books such as Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!. In short, if you have not read anything about Feynman, read this book. It is fun, well written and well drawn. On the other hand, if you have read one of Feynman's biographies just skip it, because you will learn nothing new.
Story: 3.5
Art: 3.5
Overal: 3.5

Ultimate Spider-Man: Death of Spider-Man

This is the last volume of the saga of Peter Parker, the first Spider-man in the Ultimate Marvel Universe. In this volume we read the supposedly final adventure of this Spider-man and his death at the hands of the green goblin. Death was never final in American comics, which is a motive for not giving this as much importance to this comic as you might think. The other side of this argument is that typically "death comics" can be used to write story that are in some way out of the ordinary and touching, allowing for writer to rise and shine to the occasion. In this case, and even though I typically enjoy Bendis' writing immensely, the writing is underwhelming. In fact, it is more bland than usual. The drawing, by Bagley, is as competent as always.
Story: 3
Art: 3.5
Overall: 3.25

Justice League: Generation Lost, Vol. 2

This is the second and final volume of the 24-issue maxi-series JLA Generation Lost . This goes back to a version of the Justice League that was created in the 1980s by J. M. DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire. This was an incarnation where the justice league was mostly composed of secondary heroes and the general mood was sit-commy. In this new outing, one of the main members of that league has gone bad and wants to change the world, using many of the heroes from that incarnation to do so. Simultaneously, he made the world forget who he is and that he ever existed. It is the heroes' job to revert this and stop him. Unlike its inspiration source, this is a fairly gritty and humourless comic, where drama and super-heroing take the centre stage. If you like super-heroes and the JLA, there are worst things that you can do than read this book. Both the writing and the drawing are competent.
Story: 3
Art: 3
Overall: 3

Aâma, Tome 1 : L'odeur de la poussière chaude

This is a Scifi adventure by Frederick Peeters, the author of Lupus and Koma. His science fiction is typically intimist and not space opera-ish at all. In this new story, we find a couple of brothers that could not be more different travelling together to a colony that was set in a distant planet and lost contact with the home planet. After getting there, one of the brothers wakes up on a distant location, with amnesia, a damaged robot, and a travelling journal that could reveal what happened to the other brother and to himself. He must remember what happens while he returns to the colony to be saved, because he does not know if what or who caused the situation is in the colony itself. The story is very well written and the drawing is superb. I would recommend this to people who liked Solaris.
Story: 4.5
Art:4.5
Overall:4.5