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…
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…
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…
Newsarama quoted Dean from Krypton Comics on Marvel’s offer to trade for unsold DC comics. Dean Phillips, owner of Krypton Comics in Omaha, Neb., said he liked the fact that Marvel is trying a promotion, but not one this economically unfeasible. “Unless you are choking on unsold quantities of those books, it’s just not worth…
So Marvel is cancelling all the Avengers books, with the obvious assumption that they’ll bring back the adjectiveless Avengers and resume the original numbering. New Avengers and Mighty Avengers used to be two of my favorite monthly books. Then New Avengers jumped to $3.99 a month and Dark Avengers showed up. I wasn’t going to…
Ezra Klein of the Washington Post today compared President Obama’s Nobel Peace Price acceptance speech to a metaphor Klein had made early last year while at The American Prospect — “A Superman approach to foreign policy” — life ideally imitating art imitating life. Superman and Captain America were superheroes of an odd sort: tremendously powerful…
It’s taken me five issues to confirm my suspicion that The Flash just isn’t for me. It’s easy enough to read “The Flash: Rebirth” and think that maybe The Flash is just a downright stupid character based on utter ridiculousness, but that doesn’t take into consideration the longevity of the character or the fact that…
It’s not affiliated with the official Comic-Con, but a local organizer is building on San Diego’s reputation as a happening spot for conventions. From San Diego CityBeat: With four-day San Diego Comic-Con International passes unprecedentedly selling out in early November, does San Diego need another con? And four times a year at that? If the…