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…
I’m taking abreak from reviewing my comic stack today in order to join in on First Comic Week (as started by Chris at 2 Guys Buying Comics). I’ve got three books I consider to be significant firsts for me. The First One I Read Amazing Spider-Man #314, April 1989 Back in the day before I…
Crisis Aftermath: The Battle for Bludhaven #1 (of 6) “As a result of the blast, he’s become some sort of Human Bomb.” In case you missed the Firebrand reference a few pages earlier, they were a little less subtle the second time. It appears as though the Battle for Bludhaven may just be a way…
Wow, April 1st and we’re just now finishing up the Best and Worst of 2005. Some may call me lazy for taking so long. Others may call me a visionary for stretching it out this far. Okay, so no one’s calling me a visionary. Sorry for being so lazy. The first seven issues of House…
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…
No kid loves anything more than they love snow days. You get out of school. You get to go sledding. You can learn to urinate in cursive. After college, however, snow days become the thing you despise more than anything else. It’s hard to drive, mostly because other people don’t know how to drive in…
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…
Summer is approaching, which means the trees are budding, flowers are in bloom, swim suits are coming out of storage and Marvel is preparing to blow all of us away with yet another SERIES THAT YOU MUST READ!!! As the summer of ’05 with “House of M” and summer of ’04 with “Avengers: Disassembled,” the…
Writers! Robert Kirkman, Warren Ellis, Paul Jenkins, Brian K. Vaughan, and Peter David. Not a bad set of comic writers. Combined, they do the funny, the emotional, the action-packed and the weird better than any other five writers you could lump together. Yet none of them are “superstars” like Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Millar or…