I just got back from the shop and I found an incredible book from Marvel– Vampire Tales V1 (cover is above.) That's a really ugly and generic cover. Sure, it's a nice image in and of itself but it's weak when compared to the original Vampire Tales covers (check here for the cover gallery.) This [...]
Archive for the ‘comics’ Category
July 28, 2010
0
Weekly Comic Shopping List 7/28/10 addendum– Vampire Tales
By Scott Cederlund in comics
July 28, 2010
0
Weekly Comic Shopping List
By Scott Cederlund in comicsReally kind of a light week, which is nice. I think I'll end up catching up on stuff I already have. Batman Return Of Bruce Wayne #4 – This is the issue that was supposed to be drawn by Cameron Stewart but wasn’t, right? I think it’s now drawn by Georges Geanty and I’m excited [...]
July 26, 2010
0
reviews and quick thoughts on Blackest Night
By Scott Cederlund in comicsFor some reason, a bevy of Blackest Night books coming out made me read the three main ones and write about them at Popdose. At almost every turn in Blackest Night, Johns basically tells us that we need to feel the importance of these things but never tells us why. Or worse yet, he just [...]
July 23, 2010
0
@ Indie Pulp– Strange Science Fantasy #1
By Scott Cederlund in Review, comicsI don’t think I’ve posted a link to my review of Scott Morse’s Strange Science Fantasty #1 that’s up at Indie Pulp right now. As you might expect, then, the world of the Gearheads has no rules and follows its own logic or anti-logic to such an extreme you might as well be experiencing a [...]
July 23, 2010
0
Are you trying to seduce me, Ms. Pines? thoughts on Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour
By Scott Cederlund in Review, comicsPlastics. A funny thought hit me at the end of Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour– is this comics’ version of Mike Nichols’ film The Graduate? Can you draw a connection between Mrs. Robinson and Knives Chau? Between a future in plastics and a future over the oven of a short order cook? The final book in [...]
Tags: Bryan Lee O'Malley, Mike Nichols, Scott Pilgrim, The Graduate
July 22, 2010
0
Eisner dreaming on such a winter’s day
By Scott Cederlund in comicsSDCC begins today but it seems like Marvel and DC are already controlling their news cycles and have released most of their news in the past couple of weeks. The biggest thing to look forward to are the Eisners I guess. So here's how I handicap them this year. My Eisner picks are in bold. [...]
July 21, 2010
0
@ Popdose: The Man With the Getaway Face
By Scott Cederlund in comicsThe great thing that Cooke really achieves with this story is the intensity and force of his main character. You saw some of that in The Hunter but that longer story had its own ebb and flow. This short story doesn’t have the time to ebb at all. The momentum in The Man With [...]
July 20, 2010
0
retro review: Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness
By Scott Cederlund in Review, comicsNote: This is my review of the third Scott Pilgrim book from 2006. This one still remains my favorite Scott Pilgrim book. It’s common of any series to say that you have to give it a couple of volumes to get into it and I think this volume is where Bryan Lee O’Malley really discovered [...]
July 19, 2010
0
Weekly Comic Shopping List 7/21/10
By Scott Cederlund in comicsIt’s the return of the weekly shopping list. Many comics will enter but there’s only one release this week that really matters. But in fairness, there are other books coming out this week. Legion Of Super-Heroes Vol 6 #3– This books scratches an inch right now so I’m enjoying it for that. Captain America Two [...]
July 12, 2010
0
Twin Spica and Saturn Apartments @ Pop Dose
By Scott Cederlund in comicsI did something a bit different this week at Pop Dose and wrote about two thematically similar manga titles, Twin Spica V2 and Saturn Apartments V1. Asumi (Twin Spica) and Mitsu (Saturn Apartments) are similar characters, both living with the loss of a parent and trying to understand their own roles in the world. Yaginuma [...]