I don’t think it’s out of line to say that Nightwing is by far the worst of the One Year Later titles. It just isn’t very good. She-Nightwing, a villain that eats people and then craps them out in a cocoon, and albino mob twins, topped off with a steaming dollop of bad characterization of…
The Tick: Days of Drama #6 hit comic shops this week. It was a decent end to a decent mini-series. The series certainly wasn’t the best set of Tick comics and it certainly didn’t have the best artwork (oh, how I miss The Tick in black and white), but it was fun and always filled…
Another week and another issue that seems to unravel the tightly-knit fabric that was DC continuity before and during Infinite Crisis. This time, the blame falls on another member of the holy trinity of DC superheroes, Batman. This isn’t quite so major as the The Superman Problem. If you blinked, or just weren’t reading very…
On any normal day in the DC universe, Superman flying over Wyoming and noticing a huge red orb covering the town of Riverrock wouldn’t be remarkable. It’s the kind of thing Superman would do. It even make s a strange bit of sense that Superman would be so geographically-inclined to know precisely where Riverrock, Wyoming…
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…
Last October, Marvel tried to one-up DC’s Infinite Crisis #1 by shipping House of M #7 the same week. Now DC’s returning the favor by shipping IC #7 May 3, the same day as Civil War #1. And just like last time, DC will come out on top. On one side, you’ve got the beginning…
So All-Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder, or ASSBAR, is all kinds of late. Issue #5 has been resolicited for a July 12 release. And here’s the Frank Miller cover to the issue: ASSBAR indeed.
Unlike Jean-Claude Van Doom, I’m looking forward to Civil War. I’m a crossover junkie, and while I think DC’s putting out a better product now, I’ll always be a Marvel Zombie at heart. However, I’ve vowed to not buy any Civil War crossovers I wouldn’t buy if it wasn’t a Civil War crossover. I passed…
Lately I’ve been avoiding advanced solicits as more often than not they end up spoiling the story for you (Deadly Genesis, anyone?). But I was browsing Newsarama the other day and happened upon the June DC solicits, and this caught my eye: ALL STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN, THE BOY WONDER #6 Written by Frank Miller…