Warren Ellis seems like a decent enough guy. His WarrenEllis.com blog is really entertaining, and full of useless but awesome crap (random pictures, etc.). He’s got a niche fanbase that may not be the size of say, Grant Morrison or Neil Gaiman, but certainly warrants some golf applause. But here’s the thing. His writing is…
I just spent the last three days tiling my parent’s basement, so I’m not really feeling up to a long Meaningless Awards this week. Thankfully, not a whole lot of spectacular comics came out this week. There were a few things that deserve recognition, though. Book of the Week- She-Hulk #20 Dan Slott’s She-Hulk has…
For months, Doom DeLuise has been trying to get me to post again. And again. Finally, after he had gone through the blog to correct some transfer troubles, he said to me tonight that I knew too much about X-Men not to post. And it’s true. After a break-up in 2003, I went through and…
Earlier this week I remembered this idea for a new Thor series Marvel had right around the time House of M was going on. I’m almost certain it was Mark Millar’s idea, possibly with help by current writer J. Michael Stracynski and some other member of the Illuminati. It involved a group of teenagers being…
Earlier today, I was sitting around thinking of something that I could compare Countdown to, so that even the lay-person who reads these reviews would understand how crappy it is, and I came up with a really creative, totally original idea, all on my own! Have you ever seen the show Big Brother After Dark?…
The first issue of J. Michael Stracynski’s Thor was…interesting. For some reason JMS felt the need to explain right up front how Thor is no longer dead, even though the explanation is really just “he decided to not be dead anymore.” It certainly wasn’t what I was expecting from a Thor series, but at the…
If you weren’t able to make it to Comic-Con this year, DC is making it a little easier on you by posting podcasts of their panels at their downloads page. The selections are: » CMX: Manga in Demand » Vertigo Voices: The Fables Forum » DC: The Big Guns » Spotlight On Christos N. Gage…
I keep intending to cut back on how much I’m buying, but I ended up with nine comics this week. You know what that means – nine times for me to show off my fancy domino-based rating system! First up is Green Arrow: Year One #2. Green Arrow for me was one of the few…
Publisher of the Week- Other As far as I’m concerned, there are only three comic book publishers: Marvel, DC, and everyone else. Most of the comics I buy are published by Marvel and DC, which makes sense since most of the comics period are published by Marvel and DC. This was an extremely odd week,…
No, Kingdom Come hasn’t been named a saint, but for years now it’s been slowly working its way into official DC continuity. Characters, themes and ideas from Mark Waid and Alex Ross’s epic story have been showing up in canon DC Universe stories for quite some time, from Red Arrow in JLA and a feline…