Following along with the 2 Guys Buying Comics’ “First Week,” here’s my contribution. First Comic I Read: Uncanny X-Men #212 My cousins were a huge influence on everything cultural that I liked. They were just as responsible for getting me interested in comic books as they were getting me into Public Enemy. As much fun…
So three weeks of “One Year Later” books have come out…and where are we? Superman has no powers. Supergirl is apparently in the future (won’t understand that til next week) and yet also Clark’s Metropolis call-girl. Everyone thinks the Outsiders are dead, but now their cover is blown. Meanwhile, Jason Todd has been posing as…
The Rann-Thanagar War miniseries has been quite maligned in these parts and elsewhere, largely because of its apparent irrelevance. The only real Crisis moment came at the conclusion of the series, and seemed completely unrelated to the events of the miniseries. While recent exposition has shown that incidents leading to the war were much more…
Many apologies to readers who’ve stopped by in the past week and found a bunch of unreadable jibberish (in place of the usual unreadable jibberish, yeah I saw that coming too). We were having some database problems, but I think and hope they’re taken care of.
I don’t have a clever title for this or a clever lede, but I’ve finally found something to get me into that whole manga world. I had an irrational hatred of manga dating back to the 90s when Joe Madureira ruined the X-Men and everyone (read: Wizard, because I didn’t know any other comics readers)…
A big part of writing science fiction is having a good grasp on science. Maybe, when writing “Son of M” #2, David Hine knew something I don’t. And maybe the moon works differently in the Marvel Universe. But as Quicksilver and Videmus stand in The Blue City on the moon, looking Earthward, can someone explain…
Recently, a local used bookstore came upon a big shipment of Batman trades. With all the “Jason Todd is back” hysteria going on, I thought picking up “A Death in the Family,” “A Lonely Place in Dying” and “Hush” volumes 1 & 2 would serve as a good Robin retrospective. I remember reading these “A…
I went to see James Kakalios from the University of Minnesota speak at the Union tonight, and man, it was a fun presentation. He was really funny, in a good comic-book-nerd kind of way. I tried to write down funny things he said, which might not be that great out of context, but maybe they’ll…