Its February and Marvel’s Siege rolls on as does DC Blackest Night. But I what caught my eye was what both companies have coming up later this year. Its not another cross-over, but for DC a new universe coming in March. Christened First Wave, they are going for an Art Deco, Pulp, and Noir feel. [...]
Its a new year and I’ve been felled by the flu or a cold or something. But that actually helped since I was hopped up on over the counter drugs, flat on my back, and getting through my stack of comics over the holidays. What was good? What was bad? Well for starters Brian Michael [...]
OK now I feel like an idiot. Here I was last month talking about how original and interesting Marvel’s Necrosha crossover seemed. Confined to the X-books, the miniseries is basically using dead characters as an army to plague our heroes. Well over at DC,virtually the same thing is happening in the Blackest Night crossover event. [...]
Let’s open with a bang, I finally finished Umbrella Academy Vol 2: Dallas. In the liner notes (I don’t know what else to call them), writer Gerard Way says that, “Dallas began as an idea for a single-issue adventure, like a great episode of The Twilight Zone or Doctor Who.” Well… mission accomplished. They hit [...]
Last month, it seemed that a lot of storylines were building to their conclusion. Two standouts are Greg Rucka’s Batwoman in Detective Comics and Matt Fraction’s Invincible Iron Man. Here’s the outstanding art for Batwoman, but more on it later. I’m a little annoyed with the slight revisions to Iron Man. We’re now on part [...]
The big news of the month occurred yesterday, with Disney coughing up $4 billion for Marvel Entertainment. Its not just the comics obviously, its the 7,000 characters in the library that lend themselves to licensing of bedsheets, movies, and videogames. I was laughing as the financial press kept stressing that with this acquisition that Disney [...]
This summer’s comic book equivalent of a snuff film has finally come to an end with the release of Ultimatum issue 5, Marvel’s swan song for their Ultimate imprint. The imprint was launched in 2000 with the idea of luring in new readers by using existing popular characters (Spider-Man, X-Men, etc.) without the baggage of [...]
While watching TV last night, I saw a commercial for the new G.I. Joe movie. It got me thinking about movies based on superheroes and comic books. Why must we start every film franchise with either a movie origin about how they became “super” or just after they’ve fallen off the pedestal. If you’re the [...]
When I was a kid I used to enjoy reading comics in the summertime. Because there would be one crossover event for the summer that was actually important. They used to be interesting and have repercussion that lasted a long time. Anyone remember Marvel’s first Secret Wars back in 1984? The Avengers, the FF, the [...]
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