Plenty of times in the past year, the big shots at Marvel and DC have been looking over their publishing schedule and seen an upcoming release – often one of the biggest books on the horizon – and decided the publication was so esteemed as to be deserving of a variant cover or special cover…
About a week ago, Doom DeLuise wrote about why he hates Heroes. Most of his arguments were valid. The show is over-hyped. The show is over-marketed. The characters are derivative. The show’s an obvious rip-off of Lost. But that doesn’t mean the show isn’t fun to watch. Sometimes the show can get a little stupid,…
Week Twenty-Four of Fifty-Two opens with Oliver Queen on the campaign trail in Star City, being contacted by the new Firestorm, who’s starting up a brand new Justice League, consisting of a small contingent of F-List superheroes. Among the group of losers? Firehawk, Bulleteer, Ambush Bug, and Super-Chief. When they finally see combat, they’re confronted…
This week, the Book of Doom is the fifth issue of “The Flash: Fastest Man Alive.” I’m still interested in the Flash, in spite of what’s been going on the last few months with his series. I’m reminded of an interview I read on Newsarama awhile back with the writer of this series, and he…
Sometimes things don’t go quite to plan. For instance, this week I chose DMZ #12 for our little group review. As a standalone issue, it seemed like a decent one for us to jump in and get a first glimpse of a well regarded series that none of us read regularly. Two problems ensued: First,…
When writing that previous post on The Vault of Michael Allred, it got me thinking about that select group of creators whose work I will buy no matter what. It takes a good period of stellar output with few to no bumps in the road to earn that kind of trust, but I have a…
Without any doubt, my favorite comic book creator has always been Michael Allred. In the early 90s, when I was doing my best to get into comic books thanks to various friend and family influences, I gravitated toward the X-Men and Wolverine stuff as programmed. I enjoyed it, and it satisfied whatever entertainment craving I…
Keeping in line with today and my seething cauldron of hatred over every bit of entertainment I’ve been subject to, I’d like to talk about the television show “Heroes.” While not technically a comic book, or even based on one, I think we can all see the connection between the two mediums. I suppose I…
Twenty-three is a good number. Michael Jordan used to wear it on his jersey, and now we’ve got Lebron James flying the banner high in the sky. My first ATM pin number was “2323.” I like the number quite a bit; however, I hated this issue. It’s the first issue of “52” that I can…
To preface this rant, let me make something clear. I know next to nothing about Worldstorm. I read Wildcats back when I was a kid, along with a boatload of other worthless nonsense that was coming out at the time, so I don’t exactly remember all of it. I also read the “Captain Atom: Armageddon”…