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crystalstarrlight's review
4.0
Bullet Review:
I actually rather liked this. The first story is better - Zach, the whiney cousin was obnoxious and BLECH in the second - buy both were much better than I expect. Something with magic could have been oh so cheesy and goofy, but I thought Dini and crew did well.
I actually rather liked this. The first story is better - Zach, the whiney cousin was obnoxious and BLECH in the second - buy both were much better than I expect. Something with magic could have been oh so cheesy and goofy, but I thought Dini and crew did well.
annamickreads's review
5.0
Zatanna just wants to get (1) good night's sleep, and I think that's something in which we can all relate.
I have never been so lucky as to get my hands on both Vol 1 & 2 of Zatanna's 2010-2011 run featuring writing by THE Paul Dini and gorgeous covers by Stephanie Roux. In this volume, Zee is making a living as a stage magician AND helping the local PD, JLA, and more on any and all magical requests. She must face off against Brother Night, a nightmare demon, and at one point the soul of her own father before she can finally get some rest.
Zatanna's personality is something I hope never shifts from the page to the screen (we'll see soon, won't we? Emerald Fennell I hope you're researching!!!!) because she is, as Brother Night remarks, "so fearless." She's always willing to lend a hand as long as it means she can at least take a rest once in a while, and her talents with magic are no joke.
Anyways, I love Zee, and I can't wait to read Vol 2.
I have never been so lucky as to get my hands on both Vol 1 & 2 of Zatanna's 2010-2011 run featuring writing by THE Paul Dini and gorgeous covers by Stephanie Roux. In this volume, Zee is making a living as a stage magician AND helping the local PD, JLA, and more on any and all magical requests. She must face off against Brother Night, a nightmare demon, and at one point the soul of her own father before she can finally get some rest.
Zatanna's personality is something I hope never shifts from the page to the screen (we'll see soon, won't we? Emerald Fennell I hope you're researching!!!!) because she is, as Brother Night remarks, "so fearless." She's always willing to lend a hand as long as it means she can at least take a rest once in a while, and her talents with magic are no joke.
Anyways, I love Zee, and I can't wait to read Vol 2.
lsparrow's review
2.0
I am just not into the "sexy" magician look. I feel that there could have been more to this character. Don't think I will get into this series.
cassie_grace's review
Her magic is uninteresting because she just says whatever backwards and then it happens.
remlezar's review
3.0
Two pretty great little stories starring everyone's favorite magician Batman should be married to.
hooooopla's review
4.0
I still have a problem with the way she is oversexualized, but a good read despite that.
cgwinters1981's review
4.0
If you enjoy magic and a bit of horror thrown in, you will love this volume of Zatanna. It is an incredible collection, which I read through the DC Universe app. This book has people who want to stay alive at all costs, demons, monsters, and even some wonderful side characters. If you enjoy reading comic books, this is one you should check out to see if you enjoy Zatanna and her magic ways.
magnetgrrl's review
2.0
Again, I really *want* to like Zatanna but... I just don't get her. Is there a bunch of backstory missing here? Are we supposed to know her cousin? Her crew including Mikey (who I'm going to assume is a butch-acting, femme-looking power-tool-wielding lesbian with long hair but in overalls, until I'm told otherwise)? Any of these random cops?
The story in this isn't bad, but it just has like, no stakes. OK, so some magic dude is trying to take over organized crime in - wait this is San Francisco? OMG, it looks like Vegas are you kidding me? Hm. Anyway - HOW has this never happened or been attempted before? I feel like someone could just smack this Brother Night character up the head and say "DUH" and this is a non-story. But no, somehow, we're doing this, and it's a surprise. OK, if that's the case, then this should be kind of a big deal. He has some serious firepower behind him, too. But...Zatanna dispatches these jokers with ease, including the specially-deployed-to-deal-with-Zatanna dream imp that she just... makes a deal with him and lets him go easy. ? She has a whole scene looking over a crime scene with cops and then never talks to them again basically. So it's not like we're building a relationship there, or if we were trying, wow that was superficial.
I know that a lot of comics in general but especially from older areas really - REALLY - just focus on the action. Like punching and splash pages where a dramatic line is said, faces of anguish and colored sparkage or clouds that would for sure be special effects beyond any TV series' budget except for HBO. I always long for more character development, living on those drips of drama between teammates, housemates, extremely slow-burn love relationships that take decades to get off the ground. Maybe I'm an outlier there. But Zatanna really takes the cake. The whole thing is so action-to-action point it feels pretty much phoned in.
I thought Paul Dini was supposed to be some shit or something.
And for the love of Jean Grey why can't anyone consistently draw Zatanna to look the same every time we see her? I've never seen a character more misaligned and just, not cared about. She looks like a DIFFERENT PERSON with every artist - hell sometimes within the same book. Even some Sandman characters didn't have this problem. Again. THE FISHNETS AREN'T EVERYTHING. If she's a real person we're supposed to care about it would be nice if her height, entire face, and everything else didn't shift so constantly and erratically. Honestly, I think intellectual property rights and licensing might be the only thing holding the girl together as a character because it's certainly not the kind of long-term triangulation and characterization we see from other characters that have been handled by multiple writers, been in multiple series, gone through multiple incarnations, died and came back maybe more than once, and still, somehow have this essence, this thing that's really when everything else boils away who *they* are. Zatanna doesn't have that. She barely has a face. All she really has? Are a top hat and fishnets.
The story in this isn't bad, but it just has like, no stakes. OK, so some magic dude is trying to take over organized crime in - wait this is San Francisco? OMG, it looks like Vegas are you kidding me? Hm. Anyway - HOW has this never happened or been attempted before? I feel like someone could just smack this Brother Night character up the head and say "DUH" and this is a non-story. But no, somehow, we're doing this, and it's a surprise. OK, if that's the case, then this should be kind of a big deal. He has some serious firepower behind him, too. But...Zatanna dispatches these jokers with ease, including the specially-deployed-to-deal-with-Zatanna dream imp that she just... makes a deal with him and lets him go easy. ? She has a whole scene looking over a crime scene with cops and then never talks to them again basically. So it's not like we're building a relationship there, or if we were trying, wow that was superficial.
I know that a lot of comics in general but especially from older areas really - REALLY - just focus on the action. Like punching and splash pages where a dramatic line is said, faces of anguish and colored sparkage or clouds that would for sure be special effects beyond any TV series' budget except for HBO. I always long for more character development, living on those drips of drama between teammates, housemates, extremely slow-burn love relationships that take decades to get off the ground. Maybe I'm an outlier there. But Zatanna really takes the cake. The whole thing is so action-to-action point it feels pretty much phoned in.
I thought Paul Dini was supposed to be some shit or something.
And for the love of Jean Grey why can't anyone consistently draw Zatanna to look the same every time we see her? I've never seen a character more misaligned and just, not cared about. She looks like a DIFFERENT PERSON with every artist - hell sometimes within the same book. Even some Sandman characters didn't have this problem. Again. THE FISHNETS AREN'T EVERYTHING. If she's a real person we're supposed to care about it would be nice if her height, entire face, and everything else didn't shift so constantly and erratically. Honestly, I think intellectual property rights and licensing might be the only thing holding the girl together as a character because it's certainly not the kind of long-term triangulation and characterization we see from other characters that have been handled by multiple writers, been in multiple series, gone through multiple incarnations, died and came back maybe more than once, and still, somehow have this essence, this thing that's really when everything else boils away who *they* are. Zatanna doesn't have that. She barely has a face. All she really has? Are a top hat and fishnets.
lindylevito's review
4.0
I was a bit of a late bloomer to comics, but this was the first series I put time, money, and effort into. It essentially was my introduction to the DC universe. Thus, I have quite the soft spot for it and the character of Zatanna.