You know how you can sit down on the toilet and read an issue of a comic book by the time you’re done? Well, with this issue, I think you could finish it up before finishing up a whiz. That’s not necessarily a bad thing; I’m just saying that it goes by extremely quickly. Part…
Another week and another issue that seems to unravel the tightly-knit fabric that was DC continuity before and during Infinite Crisis. This time, the blame falls on another member of the holy trinity of DC superheroes, Batman. This isn’t quite so major as the The Superman Problem. If you blinked, or just weren’t reading very…
A day late, but a dollar short? Never. Apparently some of you liked the second issue of 52 much more than I did (as I said, it was confusing and fleetingly exciting) but I think we’ll all agree that the third issue kicks serious ass. And it succeeds for all the reasons that the second…
On any normal day in the DC universe, Superman flying over Wyoming and noticing a huge red orb covering the town of Riverrock wouldn’t be remarkable. It’s the kind of thing Superman would do. It even make s a strange bit of sense that Superman would be so geographically-inclined to know precisely where Riverrock, Wyoming…
Another week, and what have we here? DC is batting a thousand and so am I, with the latest 52 (OK, it’s just the second one) reviewed below. The superstar creative team didn’t hit the ball out of the park last week, so I was hoping to see something this week that would allow me…
I know this is a superhero site, but I’m going to keep boring you all with these stupid “intellectual” comics. “Maus,” “Watchmen” and “Love and Rockets” are the books that typically come up when discussing the early graphic novels that boosted the form to new heights. But, as Neil Gaiman writes in a blurb for…
There was a lot to discuss and critique about Civil War #1 last week, including inconsistencies with characters and the forced-application of “real world” events to a fictional universe. That’s all fair game and everything. But my enjoyment of Civil War, and my assessment of Marvel, is hinging upon The Daredevil Problem. Daredevil, in his…
I think the first Ed Brubaker comic I read was Captain America #1. I might be wrong. I think I bought Captain America #1 because I thought “Ooh, series relaunch. I will see if it’s any good.” I think I was just as intrigued by the art as I was the story, but I kept…
Today the first of 52 issues of DC’s 52 has been released. After the Countdown, after the Infinite Crisis, before One Year Later… and still it’s billed as the most ambitious comics project ever undertaken. Well, we’ll see. And, since I’ve been slacking so much lately (I got married, OK!), I’m going to attempt an…
I realized today at work that it’s been six months since Decimation hit the Marvel Universe and 90% of the Earth’s mutant population was de-powered, which using Marvel’s fuzzy math left only 198 mutants on the planet (198 remaining is closer to a 99.99% loss using Marvel’s claims that there were millions of mutants on…