Couple of graphic novels...

Two graphic novels grabbed and digested - both of which I'd flipped through before. Neither of which breaks any real new ground in the TPB world.

Virtue and Vice is the better of the two with a cartoonish art style that really fits the somewhat nostalgic reteaming of the two greatest superteams that DC has to offer. It's a fun lark but nothing terribly wonderful. The combo of villians here - Despero and Johnny Sorrow - really doesn't do much for me, though the teams turn them against each other well. The twist of having some of the team members turn bad from the spirits of Shazam is a little interesting (and I have to admit to some fanboy leanings on how Powergirl is drawn here)...

In The Tenth Circle, Superman is taken out in a one panel Jedi mind trick - "you don't want to fight with me" - that doesn't work on Batman later in the same TPB. Lame. And Wonder Woman is sliced in half but okay about five pages later, no worries. And there are vampires. This isn't exactly the strongest run from Byrne and Claremont with weird characters dropping in and out of the stories (Faith, Maintou Raven, etc) and the heroes dropping in and out of weird dimensions where the little beings speak English easily enough. I understand that they were looking for a way to reintroduce the Doom Patrol to us, and this does that - along with possibly adding in three new members to that team - but it's not terribly satisfying. At least the story does start, progress, and wrap up withint the confines of this TPB - as opposed to my gripes about the Superman TPB's that I've mentioned, so at least it's got that going for it...