This was my favorite panel in the Brian Michael Bendis/Joe Quesada back-up story in this week’s Amazing Spider-Man #601. You may not know this, but DC is experimenting with running back-up stories featuring B-list characters who don’t have a book of their own. It’s all an initiative to make the recent price jump to $3.99 [...]
My friend Hallie reads this blog every day. She’s reading right now, I bet. But ever since my first post, she’s been complaining that she doesn’t care about comics and just wants to hear about my condition. So here you go. (The other 3 people reading this blog are okay with the comic talk, so [...]
I picked up a fun batch of books this past Wednesday, just a handful of oddities in a slow week for my usual caped melodrama. And after a couple of mixed and meh pulls, it’s nice to know I’ve got nothing bad to say about this trio of titles. First up, Marvel’s answer to the [...]
Earlier this week, I wrote about my disappointment with the clunky conclusion to the otherwise enjoyable Marvel Zombies Return. Meanwhile, on the happy side of review town, Green Lantern #46 and Batman: The Widening Gyre #2 were both solid offerings from the Distinguished Competition. GL, especially, was a tight, exciting issue that more than made [...]
Another full pull for me this week, and hardly a bad book in the lot. You may recall from earlier in the week, I loved me some Giant Sized Old Man Logan. I even went so far as to suggest that the mini-series could be the best–or at least my favorite–comic of the year. But [...]
I returned to work this week, and with that, returned to my 30% discount at Cosmic Comics–so the pull was pretty large. Marvel’s Ultimate line relaunched and the black death continued to march across the DC Universe in Blackest Night. Also in the mix, we got a new Fables trade, another not-sucking issue of the [...]
With the exception of two pleasant surprises from Marvel, I was mostly disappointed with this week’s haul. It may be because I’m temporarily off my meds and feeling lousy, or maybe it’s because I’ve been focused more on redesigning my apartment this weekend than reading my comics. Whatever it is, my overall feeling on the [...]
Spoiler alert: Bruce Wayne is dead. Not really dead dead, but comic book dead, which means he’s in some alternate dimension or timeline or suspended animation stasis field outside of the unreality that is comic book reality. If you want to know how and why he “died,” check out Batman: R.I.P. and Final Crisis, two [...]
Everyone is atwitter with the news, especially on Twitter, that Disney is buying Marvel Entertainment. I think this is a good thing for Disney, Marvel, and for comics in general. It hasn’t exactly hurt DC to be owned by Time/Warner. In fact, having coporate powerhouses heavily invested in the success of both Big 2 comic [...]
