Artist of the Week- Kristian Donaldson, Fallen Angel #15 Wait a second! Someone else is getting the Meaningless Award for Artist of the Week the same week Darwyn Cooke’s The Spirit came out? How is that even possible? Well, you just have to combine the always fantastic Fallen Angel with an awesome new artist. I’m…
It looks like DC’s making this thing a habit now. Even though they certainly have the best of intentions, they just don’t seem to be coming up with the right solutions to their problems. World War III was kind of a letdown. But maybe I didn’t go into it expecting it to be what it…
By Dan Brereton (W), Hector Gomez and Sandu Florea (A) Original graphic novel published by Dark Horse Comics. Cover price $9.95. The Plot: Buffy and the rest of the Scooby Gang must prevent vampire queen Lilith from summoning an Old One while Giles’ niece stops by Sunnydale for a visit. The Positives: N/A The Negatives:…
Part two of most major storylines usually ends up being the exposition issue. WWIII is no different. After setting up the big battle in A Call to Arms, the story moves on to explaining exactly what happened to five heroes that underwent major changes after Infinite Crisis but before One Year Later. While it didn’t…
Understatement of the Week- Norman Osborn is “bipolar,” Thunderbolts #113 If by “bipolar” you mean “sometimes manipulatively evil, sometimes just batsh*# crazy,” then yes, I guess you could say that Norman Osborn is bipolar. But regardless of what you call it, it’s fun to watch. When the creative overhaul of Thunderbolts was announced a while…
Some really great comics came out last week. Unfortunately, this is a really busy week for me, so I really don’t have any spare time to write about them. But by next week this will all be old news. So if anyone asks what I did today at work, I wasn’t writing this blog post….
It’s Saturday once again, which means it’s time for the Legion’s group review of this week’s Book of Doom: Avengers: The Initiative #1. I chose this book because it was written by Dan Slott of She-Hulk, The Thing, Great Lakes Avengers and Spider-Man/Human Torch fame. I’ve never read a thing by the guy I haven’t…
What better to celebrate the fourth day of the fourth month than by naming an Avengers title as this week’s Book of Doom? Well, maybe if Marvel had held off the release of the “New” Fantastic Four just one short week, that would have been more appropriate. Oh well, at least this gives me an…
So for the third week in a row, there’s not really much to write about concerning this week’s comics. But I don’t want to go that long without handing out some Meaningless Awards, so I guess I got to come up with something. Let’s see… Double Modifier of the Week 2) New Fantastic (Fantastic Four…
Mark Bagley may be my favorite comic book artist of all time. For years now I haven’t been able to enjoy his work, as he’s been stuck on Ultimate Spider-Man with one of my least favorite comic writers of all time. Now that he’s finally free of USM, what’s the next title he’ll be working…