Check out this lede from the San Diego Union Tribune’s coverage of Comic-Con: The 40th annual Comic-Con, which ended its 4½-day run in the San Diego Convention Center yesterday, resembled an issue of “Batman.” Like the Dark Knight, the pop-culture extravaganza was rich in bold characters, nail-biting suspense and wild humor. I think I need…
Best Value- Amazing Spider-Man #600 Usually when Marvel ups the price of a $2.99 comic to $4.99, it’s because they threw in a couple crappy reprints or Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe entries. Such was not the case with ASM #600. There were 104 pages in this issue. That was 62 pages of the…
It was a sad week. I apologized to my shop owner. I did, however, read the last issue of Ultimatum. What a terrible mess. It’s like somebody made a bet on how many exploding heads they could fit into a mainstream comic book. Remember when the Ultimate line was for kids? And “exploding” was the…
I’ve heard that one of the best ways to get your audience emotionally involved in your story is to make it easy for them to identify with one of your characters. In Immortal Weapons #1: Fat Cobra, Fat Cobra spends money on a book and quickly finds himself thinking it’s crap. Mission accomplished, Jason Aaron!…
At a panel at SDCC this afternoon, DC revealed four characters who will be part of the James Robinson/Mark Bagley Justice League in a few months, as well as a cover with the rest of the line-up in silhouette. Aside from Hal Jordan, the three characters revealed (Donna Troy, Mon-El and Dick Grayson) are quite…
A few bits of interesting news came out of SDCC today. Well, interesting to me at least. Remember when every bit of news that came out of this con was interesting? -At an X-Men panel, X-Force writer Craig Kyle said “16 million mutants will be brought back in Necrosha.” Necrosha is an X-Force/New Mutants/X-Men Legacy…
Some great news has already come out of the San Diego Comic-Con for fans of Jeff Smith and his classic all-ages epic Bone: a series of brand new Bone graphic novels, starting next summer! Graphix, the imprint of Scholastic books that recently released the entire Bone saga in color for the first time, will publish…
Hey all! The DC October solicitations were released today, so let’s take a look at a few of the books coming out in a few months: Blackest Night- I have no idea. I’m trying to avoid all possible spoilers for this crossover, because it’s the only thing I’ve been really excited about in comics in…
While wasting time on the internet this evening, I happened upon a post from two years ago called “The 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings.” I know what you’re thinking: “How can someone have possibly narrowed it down to forty?” Well, somehow they managed to do it over at progressiveboink.com. If you’re a Liefeld hater like…
A few bullet thoughts: – I find it gimmicky. It’s obviously a gimmick, but not all gimmicks seem gimmicky, if that makes any sense. – The one-page chapters in ongoing serialized stories make for a fairly difficult storytelling venue. – It was awkward to read. Not even my newspaper is this big anymore. – As…