Seems as though most of us had a really hard time narrowing down our picks down to just one “Best Writer” of 2006. Not surprising, we all chose someone different. Even more not surprisinger, it seems as though we were all debating between the same 5 or 6 guys. Maybe we should have just declared…
by Kevin Smith (W) and Phil Hester (P) and Ande Parks (I) Published by DC Comics. Originally published as Green Arrow #1-10. Cover price $17.99 The plot: Oliver Queen returns to the DC Universe, only no one, especially Ollie, is quite sure how. Much action, adventure, drama and hilarity ensues as filmmaker Kevin Smith takes…
Whitest Cover of the Week- Civil War: The Return Yep. That’s pretty white. That’s just a bland, uninteresting cover. Apparently you can judge a book by its cover. Line of the Week- some random mad scientist, 52 Week 38, written by Mark Waid, Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison or Greg Rucka “I haven’t been feeling at…
You may have started to notice a trend in these “Worst” picks. No one here is a very big fan of what Bruce Jones did on Nightwing. Unbelievably, three of us either hate someone esle’s writing more or managed to block out the entire run while making our picks. Bruce Jones “Infinite Crisis may have…
I don’t suppose I can claim that any of us were quite as passionate with praise for the best art of the year as we were with scorn for the worst. But, each Doomer came up with his own choice (or choices) for favorite artist. Those guys, again “It’s embarrassing for me to admit this,…
Sure, sure, drawing comics is a terribly challenging job and so it’s completely unfair to criticize anyone who does it. Well, it may be hard, but that doesn’t excuse the fact that some guys are absolutely terrible, or the fact that the big wigs keep on hiring them to churn out turds for us poor…
“Best ongoing” for us is really more like “best series,” since two of them are technically limited series. Although both of those limited series just seems to be going on and on and on, so maybe that’s how we got confused X-Factor “I judge this simply by which monthly I am happiest to see when…
So far, we’ve recounted lots of the good and the bad of 2006 in comics, from series to covers to issues to moments and so on. The following is something that didn’t quite fit into our “best of” rubric, so I offer it as a standalone thought. And that thought is, of every bit of…
I think I like that cover. It’s fairly neat. For those of you paying attention, it’s time, once again, for the entire Legion to get together for a round-table discussion of an issue that came out this past Wednesday. This week’s pick is Wolverine #50, and, from what I’ve seen, it appears that we’re all…
This is probably the hardest category to make a pick for, becuase as Jim Doom points out, you don’t tend to keep reading a series if you hate it. So this is more like “The worst two issues from an ongoing series that we’re basing out opinions on of 2006.” Apologies if stuff got better,…