Jim Doom says Ethan Van Sciver I do not get the excitement around this guy. He’s like a slightly more successful Tony Daniel – all post-Image muscular rigidity and no soul. The stiffness and lifelessness of his figures was made much more obvious when DC stuck him on Flash: Rebirth, a book in which people…
Better late than never. That’s what I will keep telling myself as I trudge through this, likely alone. I don’t necessarily disagree with those who think that the middle of February is too late for a previous year retrospective. But I look over to that left column and see all those other Years in Review…
Here are a few more things to close out what was an interesting week. Brightest Reign DC is clearly betting heavily on the Blackest Night aftermath as the Brightest Day plans look quite a bit like what Marvel did with Dark Reign. Tony Bedard will take over writing Green Lantern Corps while Pete Tomasi is…
It has been one of those good weeks with a healthy dose of interesting new items. Jim Doom already covered the strange case of Captain America and the Teabaggers, so here are few other things. Brightest Day DC has already made it official that Aquaman will be alive and well for Brightest Day. Also the Brightest…
When I saw this story break this afternoon, my first thought was “It took this long?” According to Fox News, the depiction of Teabaggers in the latest issue of Captain America has angered members of some Tea Party groups, proving yet again that we are in the midst America’s Most Sensitive Political Movement. Dave Wiegel…
I’m not very good at doing proper reviews so I thought I would try just giving some brief comments on the various books I read from this past week’s releases. Scalped #34 This is the best thing I read from last week. I have a tendency now to let the arcs build up before I read…
Secret Avengers Along with the already annouced Bendis written Avengers series the other new book in the Avengers line will be called Secret Avengers and be written by Ed Brubaker with art by Mike Deodato. Return of Bruce Wayne DC has some of the covers to the upcoming the Return of Bruce Wayne series showing more…
Rich Johnston over at Bleeding Cool mentioned mentioned that Dan Didio is allegedly going forward with putting together various Watchmen related comics in the form of prequels and spinoffs. Paul Levitz, despite his issues with Alan Moore, had always protected Watchmen from these sorts of things. Now that Levitz has stepped down there is likely…
My good friend Marc Streeter just launched his webcomic this week over at actionmanadam.com. It centers around Adam a Canadian living in Christchurch New Zealand who is trying to find love. Adam is based off a real life person both Marc and I knew. The real life Adam was quite the character himself and unintentionally provided Marc…
Well, it looks like I was wrong, and Marvel’s new Avengers book is going to start at issue #1. So since my first prediction was wrong, here is my next one — Marvel will only maintain this new numbering until the number of issues among all combined Avengers volumes equals some nice round number, such…