The line between gimmick story and fun storytelling isn’t always obvious. Much like a television series, transposing your characters to another place and time can end up like “1602,” or it could be any of the numerous holodeck malfunction episodes of “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” So I had apprehension about “X-Men Noir.” In fact,…
In the lead: The League and the JSI fight off the various bad guys that have appeared on Earth as a result of reality shifting. Morgaine Le Fey and Enigma finally meet with Konvikt and convince him to become the third part of their Trinity. Tarot figures out that if the bad guys needed her…
It was announced nearly three months ago, but it looks like Marvel’s big Dark Reign is finally upon us. I’ll put in a spoiler alert here, in case you just got home from work and haven’t read Secret Invasion #8, the conclusion to the Avengers story that’s been practically five years in the making. Continue…
Newsarama recently compiled a highly subjective and somewhat controversial list of the supposed ten best comic book-based movies of all time. I think it’s a fairly entertaining discussion, and they include a lot of stuff that I wouldn’t have thought to include. Here’s their list, along with links to reviews of these movies we’ve conducted…
Welcome to Part 2 of the review of the December 2008 Previews, continued from yesterday. This is what happens when comics don’t come out until Thursday. The first few pages of Previews are loaded with crap. It’s just clutter. Note to publishers: The design of the first few pages of Previews is so bad I…
Another week, another issue of Batman. Even though I haven’t read much of Grant Morrison’s run on Batman (and I’ve hated what I have read), I felt strangely compelled to choose Batman #682 as this week’s Book of Doom. Jim Doom and Doom DeLuise have been telling me this book is actually good, even though…
A look back at the many times Batman has died before courtesy of Tony Z™ at Comics N Things. I think my favorite cover has to be Batman #299 with that evil Statue of Liberty. I have no idea who that is but she is awesome.
With comics being delayed until Thursday this week, I contemplated delaying this a day too. But I’m on a blogging roll, and you don’t stop a blogging roll. Much of the talk this past week was about Batman #681, the conclusion to Batman RIP. It was our Book of Doom this week, and though both…
I had a lot of time to look at the new issue of Previews over the holiday weekend. Starting off we’ve got the Marvel Previews insert. Cover: “Ultimatum brings about the end of two teams,” it says, promising the end of Ultimate Fantastic Four and Ultimate X-Men. Good riddance. I remember reading Ultimate X-Men for…