It is rare that I actually get to read my new comics on a Wednesday, so here’s an actual timely review of the week’s haul to celebrate in the order I read them… Astro City Special #1 Fantastic. Everything I read from the Astro City line is consistently fantastic. Like the inside front cover says,…
So that this review can be found with the other 52 reviews, I plucked it out of the week’s compiled reviews and gave it its own little home. “And gathering together countries like chess pieces to consolidate a power base that only serves to threaten your people and the rest of the world.” How does…
…so now that I’ve finally seen Superman Returns, here are some thoughts. I thought what the movie did exceptionally well, first and foremost, to such a degree that the negatives didn’t bug me all that much, was present Superman as the lonely outsider. From his voyeurism to his silent hovering in space, the character’s relatively…
And I’m not going to title this post the goddamned Supergirl Problem. Maybe my level of expectation is too high, and it’s silly for me to be asking this question. I mean, over in Marvel, Wolverine spends 10 months either dead, zombified and killing for Hydra, or on a mission to take out Hydra in…
As the new self-appointed defender of The Books That People With Internet Connections Poop On, I will now take address the rapid abandonment of “52.” And when I say “rapid,” sure, the book has been around for 5 issues already, but it’s only been 5 weeks, and less than 1/10th of its full story run….
I can’t really explain it, other than maybe it’s due to overexposure. Mere weeks ago, I was more excited about comics than I had been in some time. Civil War was starting, Infinite Crisis was ending, One Year Later was launching. It was an interesting time to be buying comics, especially for people who’d been…
I see all sorts of posts and comments here and there in comics blogland ragging on New Avengers. Bendis can’t write a team book; these aren’t my Avengers; there’s no action; people talk for 20 pages; why do people buy this crap; blah blah blah. Am I the only one who remembers that, not long…
There was a lot to discuss and critique about Civil War #1 last week, including inconsistencies with characters and the forced-application of “real world” events to a fictional universe. That’s all fair game and everything. But my enjoyment of Civil War, and my assessment of Marvel, is hinging upon The Daredevil Problem. Daredevil, in his…
I think the first Ed Brubaker comic I read was Captain America #1. I might be wrong. I think I bought Captain America #1 because I thought “Ooh, series relaunch. I will see if it’s any good.” I think I was just as intrigued by the art as I was the story, but I kept…
Now that today’s shipment brings Infinite Crisis to a close, and since the big fun arguably got started with a bullet born of a government conspiracy that left half a head splattered about, let’s take a moment to reflect where we were when we experienced the big moments of Infinite Crisis. Sure, Maxwell Lord was…