I didn’t have any kind of high expectations for Deathblow, and in fact I had ridiculously low expectations, until I saw that Brian Azarello was writing it. I thought, “A ha, what a sign of the times, when a book that originally launched from the Jim Lee boom of the 90s is now intriguing based…
This, my friends, was a good week for comics. I’m going to format this post and steal Fin Fang’s countdown format since he doesn’t do it anymore. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s my Top 7 Books of the Week! But first – a quick mention – for thoughts on Deathblow #1, check out this week’s upcoming…
In the first couple of pages of this week’s issue of “52,” we meet the main boss behind the Intergang infiltration of Gotham, and he’s not only a cannible, but he’s a terrible party host. He murders a lot of his guests. He doesn’t murder Magpie or Ventriloquist, which is interesting, since they’re two of…
It’s far too rare here we take a look into the realm of small-press and self published comics. So I’m really glad to get the chance to offer a review of Undercard, a new boxing comic written by Chris Gumprich and illustrated by Dennis Culver. The book – which the two published – follows a…
That’s not an original photo. I found it somewhere on the Internet. Anyway, my brother wrote something for his blog about the television show “Heroes,” and I thought that it was fantastic, so I asked him if I could post it on here, since we’ve been discussing the show’s merit for some time now. I…
Wellsir, I just capped a twelve-pack, so I figure since it’s my duty this week, I’ve gotta say something about the Book of Doom for this week. I chose “The Flash: Fastest Man Alive,” since it has come to my attention that a lot of people quit reading it after the first issue. Don’t get…
Call me what you will, but the original Blade film is one of the coolest comic book movies yet made. No, it’s nowhere near the rarefied air of the Spider-Man flicks, Batman Begins, Superman Returns and the first couple X-Men. But it’s certainly tops over Daredevil, Punisher, Elektra or Fantastic Four. It’s fun, dumb yet…
I only picked up the first issue of Ghost Rider a few months back because Mark Texeira was doing the art again. I’d seen that there was a relaunch of Ghost Rider in the past few years – maybe even more than one – but the art always seemed goofy and inappropriate. As someone who…
Week Twenty-Four of Fifty-Two opens with Oliver Queen on the campaign trail in Star City, being contacted by the new Firestorm, who’s starting up a brand new Justice League, consisting of a small contingent of F-List superheroes. Among the group of losers? Firehawk, Bulleteer, Ambush Bug, and Super-Chief. When they finally see combat, they’re confronted…
Sometimes things don’t go quite to plan. For instance, this week I chose DMZ #12 for our little group review. As a standalone issue, it seemed like a decent one for us to jump in and get a first glimpse of a well regarded series that none of us read regularly. Two problems ensued: First,…