There’s a new Marvel Zombies book out this week. What makes this one special, after the glut of Marvel Zombies-related comics that have been put out since the original mini-series surprised everyone with it’s popularity? The fact that this one has pretty much nothing to do with Marvel Zombies at all. Today, Marvel released Marvel…
The Green Arrow and Black Canary Wedding Special was a fun read, even though it simultaneously acknowledged and contradicted what happened in the JLA Wedding Special from last week. See, in the first Wedding Special, the JLA gets the snot whipped out of them by the Injustice League during Canary and Arrow’s respective bachelorette and…
The Sinestro Corps War had a ton of momentum heading out of the over-sized one-shot that started the whole thing. It had the return of Superboy-Prime and the Anti-Monitor, the attack on Oa and the possession of Kyle Rayner by Parallax. Since then it’s kind of gone downhill. For a few months now the crossover…
I don’t like Brian Michael Bendis. That’s the conclusion I’ve come to after reading my fair share of Bendis comics. There’s only one thing he’s done that I outright hated (Avengers: Disassembled), but there’s only one thing he’s done that I really enjoyed (The Pulse). Everything else of his that I’ve read falls somewhere between…
The JLA Wedding Special has got to be the worst marketing idea in recent memory. First of all, nothing draws fanboys to a comic like having the word “Wedding” in the title, am I right? [No, I am not.] Second, DC Specials tend to be throwaway stories that are utterly avoidable, but this one wasn’t…
Justice League of America Wedding Special #1 is not a throw-away one-shot. It is in fact the first issue of Dwayne McDuffie’s run on Justice League of America, part one of “Unlimited,” starring the Injustice League. If you plan to read Dwayne McDuffie’s Justice League, you need to get this issue. Plus, it’s damn good….
Cable sucks. I cheered when that guy died. He was dead weight in Cable & Deadpool, and now that he’s dead weight in the Marvel Universe, that title’s been phenomenal. So what does Marvel do? Cancel Cable & Deadpool and launch a new Cable title. That just sucks, which is pretty appropriate given my opening…
She-Hulk #21 made me remember this week why I love comics. Sometimes they’re just fun. Writer Dan Slott pokes fun at himself, other writers and the Marvel editors this issue in his final story on the title that explains away all the “heroes in the wrong costumes, with the wrong status quos” that have been…
Last week wasn’t a very good week for comics. I only bought three from Marvel, three from DC (one of which was actually from the week before), two from Image and one from IDW. Countdown didn’t get shipped to my local comic book shop, and said LCS didn’t order any of this week’s Book of…
I’ve been doing the Meaningless Awards of the Week for about nine months now, and quite frankly I’m tired of the format. It seems to me like I’ve been in a bit of a blogging rut for a while now, and I figure a break from formula is probably the best way to deal with…