Sinister Sons #2 – Peter J. Tomasi, Writer; Vasco Georgiev, David LaFuente, Artists; Tamra Bonvillain, Colorist
Ray – 8.5/10
Ray: Pete Tomasi is heavily associated with his Super-Sons run, which saw Damian Wayne and Jon Kent go from being rivals to friends with some bumps along the way. Many, many bumps, usually caused by Damian’s caustic personality. And as caustic as Damian could be, that’s absolutely nothing compared to the chaos unleashed by the two sons of villains in this series. Lor-Zod and SinSon not only aren’t friends, they’re directly opposed to each other when the story starts, with SinSon hijacking Lor-Zod’s ship and looking to take it to Korugar. While the son of Zod is ready to tear his own ship apart to get it back, the son of Sinestro is surprisingly more casual—easily able to outwit the stronger boy and wrest control of the ship away by overriding its AI. That switches the power dynamic immediately, and Lor-Zod quickly starts to realize that he might have underestimated the young thief.
The main problem this series has is that neither of these two characters are especially likable, but that doesn’t mean they’re not engaging in some ways. Lor-Zod is the less likable of the two, but we’ve seen enough of his desperate striving to please his father to make us invested in his story. SinSon, on the other hand, is a kid who has come from nothing and fought for every single inch he’s gained since then. He’s scrappy, even if he’s rather amoral. And when the two boys get swept away into the belly of a giant space whale, the story takes a turn. They both start to realize how close they are to death, and actually start to work together—before encountering something truly bizarre in the belly of the whale. Tomasi has been writing for a very long time, and I’m hoping these two little chaos agents get to meet the Super-Sons before Tomasi heads off to the world of Ghost Machine.
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