Posted in DC, tagged batman, Grant Morrison on February 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Remember how Grant Morrison’s X-Men run initially seemed like a rambling set of unconnected stories, with moments of brilliance but just as many apparent non-sequiturs, only to turn out shortly before the end, as the layers of plot were peeled away, to have been an intricately-constructed masterpiece where every single little detail mattered to the [...]
Posted in Icon, Marvel, tagged John Romita Jr., Kick-Ass, Mark Millar on February 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Kick-Ass is one of those comics that paints itself as a realistic depiction of superheroes. It’s a trend that many will argue began, and should’ve ended, with Watchmen. Still, even Watchmen’s premise was fairly forgiving - it was a realistic take on a superhero universe as much as superhero characters. Kick-Ass goes one step further, asking what happens when [...]
Posted in Dusting Off, Marvel, tagged Venom, Len Kaminski, Ted Halsted on February 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Every Wednesday we take turns to delve into our trusty longboxes, pluck out a dusty back issue at random, and give you our thoughts. We’ll also try and place it in the context of the time it was originally published.
Oh, now this is a good one. Back in the mid-90s, when comics were comics and [...]
Posted in DC, Wildstorm, tagged Brian K. Vaughan, Ex Machina, Tony Harris on February 26, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve lost touch with Ex Machina a bit lately. Not that I haven’t been reading it, just that as each new issue has come out, I’ve found myself failing to remember what happened in the previous part, or even if there was a story arc currently ongoing. My buying habits over the past few months [...]
Posted in Marvel, tagged Hulk, Ultimates, Warren Ellis, Iron Man, Cary Nord on February 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Okay, we’ve gone on about it enough. Time for that one last push to make you read Ultimate Human.
Ellis is the kind of writer who’s very polarising. There’s a lot of personality about him, and he’s undoubtedly often more interested in hanging a story off his futurist concepts than the other way around. That said, this [...]
Posted in The Sunday Pages, tagged Becky Cloonan, Black Hole, Brian Wood, Greg Land, J. Michael Straczynski, Neil Gaiman, secret invasion, Watchmen, Wolverine, Wolverine and the X-Men on February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Whew. Lots of traffic and positive response to that Ultimates v3 “review” we posted earlier this week - hope some of you are choosing to stick around! Just in case, I thought I’d give a brief overview of the site’s raison d’etre for anyone new: The goal is to have one comic reviewed every weekday [...]
Posted in Marvel, tagged Hulk, Jeph Loeb, Ed McGuinness on February 22, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Okay, just so we’re clear - this blog isn’t going to turn into some kind of anti-Loeb forum - god knows I’d rather be reading good comics than reviewing his bad ones - but it’s also not my fault that Hulk #2 and Ultimates #3 came out the same week. It IS my fault that I gave his Hulk run a [...]
Posted in Marvel, tagged Jeph Loeb, Joe Madureira, Ultimate Zabu, Ultimates on February 21, 2008 | 19 Comments »
There’s little point reviewing Jeph Loeb’s Ultimates by now. If you’re still buying it, then you deserve all you’re getting, frankly. If you want to read about the real Ultimates, well, go and buy Ultimate Human instead, because it’s MUCH BETTER. Now, while we take the fairly healthy line that in comics, continuity is merely [...]
Posted in DC, Dusting Off, tagged Superman, Louise Simonson on February 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Every Wednesday we take turns to delve into our trusty longboxes, pluck out a dusty back issue at random, and give you our thoughts. We’ll also try and place it in the context of the time it was originally published.
Since the Booster Gold issue reviewed yesterday was a somewhat belated Zero Hour crossover, I thought [...]
Posted in DC, tagged blue beetle, Geoff Johns, Dan Jurgens, Booster Gold on February 19, 2008 | No Comments »
And so Booster Gold continues to confound expectations by being… well… quite good, actually. Even those of us who followed him into his latest solo title through sheer character loyalty (from either Justice League International, 52 or both) surely didn’t see that one coming. But Johns and Katz have found a perfect niche for him [...]
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