Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

Look, Red Tornado tops that list.  Seriously, you want me to love a DC comic so much I five star it?   Just make Red Tornado a major player in said comic book.   Which is pretty sad for me, because I can't find that much that focuses on him on Comixology.   

But that's not really true.   Vision is Marvel's version of Red Tornado, and while I tend to like the Marvel-verse more than DC in general, I'm finding these two odd in that I like them equally.   They're actually pretty much the same character.   The design, particularly the colors, the wanting to be human, the human family (including children, although Red Tornado's wife didn't magic some into existence*), both were intended to be weapons against the teams that would eventually accept them as one of their own. 

Being two versions of each other, it's pretty naturally that I like them equally.   If I seem to like Vision more, it's because I have more exposure to him via the Marvel universe.   For whatever reason, it seems that he's used a lot more often.   He's been in the blockbuster movie, he's got his own series.   And I bring this up in a Red Tornado-based review because the fact is I want more exposure to Red Tornado, if only I could find some good Red Tornado-based stories.   (I don't mean something that has him as a minor character either; I want one stories with him as a significant character.)

And this brings out a lot of what I love in both characters: the wish to be a real boy is granted, and he has to deal with the fallout as this proves to be all part of a greater plan, and an evil plan.  Of course.   When are these types of things not part of a greater, evil, evil plan?   

And the whole 'let's vote on new team-members' storyline didn't interest me nearly as much as what Red Tornado's storyline: it was a poignant look at what happened to him when he got what he wanted the most, and how it would affect him beyond this storyline.  Using his wife, Kathryn, and his adopted daughter, Traya, only compounded some of the horrors throughout this storyline, both when he shares the stage with them, and when it's them alone, dealing with his life as a Justice Leaguer.   

The only reason I didn't buy the next graphic novel is that it seems to diverge, and deal with Red Tornado less.   And the truth is I care very little for most of the other characters in this.   Not because they're not likable, not because they don't have good stories to tell, but simply because of personal taste. 

*They took the path of least existence, and adopted, which is odd: comics tend to do everything convoluted to the power of infinity, and so, y'know, adoption is pretty not convoluted.   Relatively.  I understand it can be quite convoluted in real life, but when it's adoption versus magicking kids into existence, adopting is the path of least resistance.