Archive for the ‘comics’ Category

?I’m trying to figure out what’s different now; what have we learned about Barry Allen during The Flash: Rebirth?   The answer is kind of surprising, at least to me.  We’ve learned that you can kill Barry’s mom but don’t touch Iris.  We’ve learned that it’s o.k. to Barry if the world thinks his father [...]

Driving in to work this morning, I was listening to Wood and Vince on the 11 O'Clock Comics podcast talk about Beanworld.  This made me both happy and sad.  I was happy to hear them talk about Larry Marder's fantastic comic but sad that I've had Dark Horse's three hardcovers sitting on a shelf and [...]

A giant, armor wearing, warrior, white rat. Who saw that one coming?

You know it’s bad in Joe the Barbarian #2 when Captain Jean Luc Picard is giving up the battle; when he’s passing off his phaser to some boy and then hobbling off to whatever final fate awaits him. We’re talking about the [...]

Do you remember what Brian Michael Bendis’ first major act as the Avengers’ writer was?

He blew up Avenger’s mansion.

Sure, it’s been blown up before but he annhilated it in Avengers: Disassembled, using the Vision and a quinjet to blast it to kingdom come even after he killed Jack of Hearts (the character’s second death in [...]

Blackest Night #7
Flash Rebirth #6 — Two awaited Geoff Johns books this week.  It's been so long, I don't know if I really care to wait to see the end of Flash Rebirth but I've got the first 5 so what's one more?  This relaunch has had some cool moments but feels like it's [...]

Matt Wagner and Osamu Tezuka.  I can think of worst ways to spend the weekend.

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Star Wars Legacy Vol 8 Tatooine TP–  I think I’ve come to love the characters in SW Legacy more than any character in the prequel movies and possibly even more than the characters in the original movies.  Ostrander and Duursema have created a whole social and political world that builds on Lucas’ [...]

The best pop albums always have a killer last song, the perfect track to end an album while leaving you wanting more. That’s what Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie do with Phonogram: The Singles Club #7; they deliver the perfect single to their series.
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So today happens to be my birthday, my 40th one at that and all day, I’ve had two kind of geeky (but in different ways) things going through my mind.
First, the trailer to a little movie called FREE ENTERPRISE:

I first watched this movie in the weeks before my 30th birthday and in many ways, I [...]

I've got a really strange and warped collectors mentality.  I've picked up a handful of issues of Jonah Hex, mostly the ones drawn by Jordi Bernet, Darwyn Cooke and J.H. Williams III but I always kind of just wrote the book off if it wasn't being drawn by those three.  For some reason, I couldn't [...]