I couldn’t resist… Back when we did our best and worst of 2005, Jim Doom slapped a “most disappointing” on The Goon, the silly horror/mobster book by Eric Powell. I didn’t agree, first because there was some supremely crappy stuff last year and also because even though The Goon had slid a bit, I didn’t…
Everyone remembers the shot heard ‘round the world. No, not the shot that killed Archduke Ferdinand which started the first World War. No, not the battle at old North Bridge, the first battle of the American Revolutionary War. I am referring, of course, to the moment Maxwell Lord shot Blue Beetle in the head, which…
It looks like we have another answer to one of the questions scrawled on Rip Hunter’s blackboard, folks. Who is Diana Prince? Why, she’s one of Cassie Sandsmark’s aliases. Ralph Dibny, ever the detective, figures it out while looking for the people who broke into his storage garage last week. Cassie and the Cult of…
It is rare that I actually get to read my new comics on a Wednesday, so here’s an actual timely review of the week’s haul to celebrate in the order I read them… Astro City Special #1 Fantastic. Everything I read from the Astro City line is consistently fantastic. Like the inside front cover says,…
So that this review can be found with the other 52 reviews, I plucked it out of the week’s compiled reviews and gave it its own little home. “And gathering together countries like chess pieces to consolidate a power base that only serves to threaten your people and the rest of the world.” How does…
I am issuing an open challenge to everyone who reads this blog (which thankfully is a relatively low number in case this backfires): Go out to your local comic shop. Buy Eternals #1 and Eternals #2. Read them and enjoy them. If you don’t like them, send them to me and I’ll send you a…
In Week Six, Booster Gold visited Rip Hunter’s lab, only to find that the good man has gone plum insane and has also vanished without a trace. Amongst his mad scribblings on his chalkboard, Rip has left a note reading, “Who is the Batwoman?” She’s been shrouded in mystery ever since showing up in the…
I don’t think it’s out of line to say that Nightwing is by far the worst of the One Year Later titles. It just isn’t very good. She-Nightwing, a villain that eats people and then craps them out in a cocoon, and albino mob twins, topped off with a steaming dollop of bad characterization of…
…so now that I’ve finally seen Superman Returns, here are some thoughts. I thought what the movie did exceptionally well, first and foremost, to such a degree that the negatives didn’t bug me all that much, was present Superman as the lonely outsider. From his voyeurism to his silent hovering in space, the character’s relatively…
I think that may be my favorite moment in “52” so far. Granted, Black Adam has been nothing short of bad-ass throughout this thing, but that moment is absolutely brilliant. That aside, here’s the rundown on this issue. Clark Kent is fired from the Daily Planet for not being able to secure an interview with…