Best of 2023 (So Far)
Somehow we’re already halfway through the year. Here’s a look back at some of my favorites from the first-half of 2023.
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Human Target
The Human Target #12
- Title: The Human Target #12
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- Writer: Tom King
- Artist: Greg Smallwood
If you don’t believe a comic can move you to tears, let me offer you The Human Target #12. The final issue of The Human Target deals with the aftermath. The heart-wrenching, painful, disturbing, yet beautiful aftermath of the death of Christopher Chance. There’s no last-minute save for our hero. Christopher Chance dies. While some of comic attempts to wrap-up various JLI threads still hanging out there, the main focus is on Ice and dealing with the loss of the man she inadvertently killed and fell in love with all in twelve days.
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The Human Target #11
- Title: The Human Target #11
- Comic Vine: link
- Writer: Tom King
- Artist: Greg Smallwood
The penultimate issue of the twelve-issue maxi-series gives us Christopher Chance and Ice together on the day before he dies. It’s a sweet and beautiful issue with secrets unburdened and love expressed before the sun begins to set and harder truths and pain is shared. For a comic that’s just two characters spending a day at the beach it’s an amazing read that is all the more painful knowing we’re so close to the end.
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The Human Target #10
- Title: The Human Target #10
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- Writer: Tom King
- Artist: Greg Smallwood
With only three days left to live, Christopher Chance decides to leave Ice and do a little investigating into Guy Gardner‘s apparent death. For help, he’ll call on the universe’s most gullible Green Lantern – G’Nort. Given recent events, I didn’t expect a trip to Oa was in the offering, but that’s what we get with Chance making a discovery leading to another confrontation with the not-so-dead Lantern, and G’Nort vomiting all over a Guardian. You don’t see that every day.
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The Human Target #9
- Title: The Human Target #9
- Comic Vine: link
- Writer: Tom King
- Artist: Greg Smallwood
With all the talks with various members of the JLI, there’s a character that hasn’t been shown or mentioned. A detective who could have helped with Chance‘s investigation. Although we don’t see him here, the Dark Knight Detective is on Chance’s mind as he’s sure Batman is tracking the Human Target and Ice ready at any moment to swoop down for the death of Guy Gardner.
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