I needed something to read over lunch today, so I cheated on my regular Wednesday shop and swung by the comic shop that’s closer to my workplace to pick something up. I settled on Daredevil: Dark Reign: The List #1 as 1) I am a Daredevil fan and reader and 2) its standalone nature suited…
I am no manga fan. I have nothing against the stuff — I just don’t know much. The only series I’ve ever read was Death Note, which I eventually dropped around volume 9 or so because I just got tired of all the twists and what seemed like a contractual obligation to continue stretching the…
Everybody seems to be freaking out a little bit over the “Disney buying Marvel” news that came out today. As you may have gathered from the title of this post, I’m not. This will probably end up affecting Marvel about as much as Warner Brothers buying DC affected that company. Which is pretty much not…
Holy hamburgers, it’s been four months since I’ve reviewed any of my blasted comics! In my defense, I spent a little time in New Yawk City, got a job, did a lot of drinking, and just recently returned from a little European Vacation (not nearly as funny as the movie, btw). Well, okay, so mostly…
Normally I would save The Walking Dead until the very end of my week’s stack of comics (the slot always reserved for the title I’m most looking forward to reading). But this week it was the first thing I read, because the issue itself isn’t the only bit of TWD news this week. It looks…
Best Value- Amazing Spider-Man #600 Usually when Marvel ups the price of a $2.99 comic to $4.99, it’s because they threw in a couple crappy reprints or Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe entries. Such was not the case with ASM #600. There were 104 pages in this issue. That was 62 pages of the…
It was a sad week. I apologized to my shop owner. I did, however, read the last issue of Ultimatum. What a terrible mess. It’s like somebody made a bet on how many exploding heads they could fit into a mainstream comic book. Remember when the Ultimate line was for kids? And “exploding” was the…
I’ve heard that one of the best ways to get your audience emotionally involved in your story is to make it easy for them to identify with one of your characters. In Immortal Weapons #1: Fat Cobra, Fat Cobra spends money on a book and quickly finds himself thinking it’s crap. Mission accomplished, Jason Aaron!…
A few bullet thoughts: – I find it gimmicky. It’s obviously a gimmick, but not all gimmicks seem gimmicky, if that makes any sense. – The one-page chapters in ongoing serialized stories make for a fairly difficult storytelling venue. – It was awkward to read. Not even my newspaper is this big anymore. – As…
I cannot understate how astonishingly awful this movie was. Just off the top of my head: • The Autobots aren’t heroic. The opening scene depicts what has become SOP for the Autobots — hunt down Decepticons, beat them up, and — when the enemy is lying defeated and helpless on the ground — deliver a…