The Mighty Avengers feels like it is supposed to be the “widescreen” version of The Avengers. After Brian Michael Bendis has spent the last few years redefining the team in the pages of New Avengers, Mighty Avengers feels like it should be the big action, larger-than-life team that New Avengers really never was. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Review'
Venoms, Dooms, Skrulls! Oh, my! A review of Mighty Avengers V2
July 8th, 2008 · No Comments
Best use of Stephen Hawking in a comic– a review of Atomic Robo V1
July 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Is it wrong to criticize a collection because it feels like six smaller stories strung together? Atomic Robo Volume One isn’t a bad book, but it is a collection that just doesn’t read well. In an age of six issue storylines that fit one story nicely into a trade paperback collection, [...]
Who you gonna call?— a review of Guardians of the Galaxy #2
June 25th, 2008 · No Comments
When you get to the third page of Guardians of the Galaxy #2 and see the talking raccoon saying “Talking pets give me the willies,” you’ve got to realize that this isn’t going to be your standard team comic book. And when you realize that the talking raccoon is referring to a talking Soviet [...]
Flashback Review: Wanted #6 (Jan ‘05)
June 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Note: With the release of the movie Wanted this weekend, here’s a look at the sixth issue of that mini. This review originally ran on the now defunct Mediasharx website in January, 2005.Wanted #6 Dead or Alive Published By: Image Comics/Top Cow Written by: Mark Millar Drawn by: J.G. Jones & Dick [...]
Guestblogging about Jeff Lemire at Warren Peace
June 19th, 2008 · No Comments
My friend and coworker Matthew J. Brady is on vacation for a week or two so he has a bunch of people contributing pieces to his blog Warren Peace Sings the Blues while he’s away and I snuck in with one review of a couple minicomics by Jeff Lemire– The Essex County Boxing Club and [...]
Defining shadows with light– a review of Hellboy Darkness Calls
June 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Hellboy: Darkness Calls shows how much Mike Mignola has growth as a storyteller. The earliest Hellboy tales were fairly straight ahead adventure stories disguised as gothic horror. The first volume, Seed of Destruction, thrived on mixing monsters with a fairly adventurous spirit in equal measure. But as time has moved on [...]
Father’s Day– a seven year later review of Starman #81
June 15th, 2008 · No Comments
Note: If you’re reading Starman for the first time thanks to the recent Starman Omnibus V1, you may want to skip this entry. I guess it has spoilers for the entire series. I’d like to think that today Jack Knight is enjoying a day in his San Francisco shop, with his son [...]
At play in the fields of Jack Kirby– a review of Final Crisis #1
June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Grant Morrison quickly establishes the scope of Final Crisis: it is a story as old as time. Maybe borrowing a page from Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001, Grant Morrison opens Final Crisis near the dawn of time, as early man is ready to take the next evolutionary step. And borrowing [...]
Have a little Faith– a review of Buffy V2: No Future for You
May 28th, 2008 · No Comments
If Buffy was still a television show, this book would be an unofficial pilot for a Faith spinoff show. And based off of this book, I’d really love to see that Faith series. With hundreds, if not thousands, of Slayers existing around the world, it makes sense that not all of them would [...]
Rise up and hear the bells– quick thoughts on Captain Britain and MI13
May 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Captain Britain is one of those characters to me who belongs to one creator; Alan Davis. But, if you can’t have Davis drawing Cap, Leonard Kirk is a strong choice to fill in those shoes. Kirk has been a favorite of mine since his JSA run and I still long for the day that he [...]
Indiana Jones, Crystal Skulls and the 52 Movies 13.B
May 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Musing about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull earlier, I wondered if I was going to get another Raiders of the Lost Arc, a movie I love, or a Last Crusade, one I merely enjoy. Well, I guess the answer is that I’m going to prefer to remember the Indiana Jones [...]
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The education of me– a review of The Education of Hopey Glass
May 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Have you ever gotten the feeling that you’ve read the perfect comic, devoured the perfect novel or watched the perfect movie? That after you were done taking it in, you never needed to see another comic, book or movie ever again or, at least, it was so good that it made you re-evaluate what [...]
Sons & Fathers & Daughters– a review of Casanova #14
May 19th, 2008 · No Comments
“Boy, you been a naughty girl and you let your knickers down.” Before we get into talking about the book, maybe we should talk about the book’s audience. With this latest issue, the conclusion of the second story arc, you can check around the net for reactions and find everything from “it may be the [...]
It reminds me of a movie I recently saw… a review of Invincible Iron Man #1
May 14th, 2008 · No Comments
As Iron Man, All jets ablaze, He fights and smite’n With repulsor rays!So how do you celebrate opening a movie that makes over $100,000,000 domestically in it’s first weekend? Well, if you’re a comic publisher, the answer seems easy; you publish a second series with a new #1 issue. This time around, [...]
Event Lull– a review of Secret Invasion #2
May 13th, 2008 · No Comments
After the first time I read Secret Invasion #2, I put it down thinking I had nothing to say about it. After I read Secret Invasion #2 again, I put it back down unable to figure out anything to write for a review of the book. So I read it a third time. [...]
Speed Racer– Fifty Two Movies #12
May 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Welcome to the 21st century cartoon. Only know it’s a semi-live action/adventure movie.Let’s set up why this may be the perfect movie for me.Whenever I talk about the Wachowski brothers (or siblings or whatever they are now,) I always feel the need to throw up the preface that I actually like all three Matrix [...]
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Dave Sim is a tracer– a review of glamourpuss #1
May 6th, 2008 · No Comments
Try not to pay too much attention to the idiotic and silly cover to Glamourpuss #1. I half think Dave Sim put up a cover that’s trying to emulate a fashion magazine so he’d keep out those comic fans who are too “cool” and “hip” to read a silly comic about women’s fashion. [...]
Go greased lightning– a review of DC Universe #0
May 5th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Congrats to DC for getting me to pay 50 cents for a teaser. Again. Chalk up another failure for Countdown. Instead of being a year long story, it was only a 51 week long story, just missing the mark. DC Universe #0 was originally intended to be Countdown #0 but according [...]
Iron Man– 52 Movies #11
May 4th, 2008 · No Comments
(note: Yes, I’m far behind on these movie posts but May looks to be a month to catch up. Look for at least weekly movie talk beginning with this one. Hopefully I’ll even have a second one up this week.)“I’m not the hero type… Clearly.”Let’s talk a bit about what makes a [...]
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Twice Damned– a review of The Damned Prodigal Sons #1
April 30th, 2008 · No Comments
The first The Damned mini was about power. This new one begins with family.
So here’s the scene and it may be familiar to old-time movie fans. James Cagney, wearing a lousy, cheap black suit, stumbles into a darkened apartment, just happy to have escaped the mob bloodbath that took place on the other [...]
A Silver Age DC writer trapped in a modern age Marvel world– a review of X-Men First Class #11
April 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Did we really need another X-Men book? Particularly one that focused on the original 1963 team? Marvel has tried to do this before and failed with less than spectacular results. The creators either tried to be too faithful to the original stories or tried to make those X-Men “kewl” and “Imagey,” you [...]
Party like it’s 1999– a review of Dreamwar #1
April 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment
What on odd little project for DC to put out right now? In the midst of their world defining span of stories that began before Infinite Crisis and looks to continue well into Final Crisis, they put out what appears to be [...]