Clearing out the comics backlog, I read the fourth collection of 100 Bullets. Thoughts follow. This post may be expanded/reformatted into a full review in the not too distant future.
A Foregone Tomorrow pulls the curtain back on several players in the conspiracy plotline; a couple of story arcs do not even feature Agent Graves’ briefcase [...]
I was gonna steer clear of Comic-Con news posting here, partially because my shift to graphic novels and trade paperback collections means it might be next year before I see any of the titles being hyped this year and partially because I’m filling in on the news desk at theLogBook while Earl is at Classic [...]
Completed the DC weekly series 52 today.
By no means was it bad, and there were a number of character threads I liked. But it spectacularly failed at doing what it originally set out to do - explain what happened during the “missing year” in the DC Universe - and it wasn’t able to contain all [...]
Some of the best Justice League stories I’ve ever seen were written by Dwayne McDuffie. Problem for DC was, he was writing them for Justice League Unlimited, the much-missed animated series. It’s taken them about a year or two longer than I would have liked, but they’ve decided to hand McDuffie the reins of Justice [...]
About a week ago I discovered a long-running webcomic called Real Life, a loosely autobiographical comic done in Illustrator by Greg Dean. The comics and some of the situations are based on Greg’s life, his friends, and his various hobbies. Others are clearly science fiction scenarios played for humor, such as dimension hopping, time travel, [...]
The last issue of DC’s weekly series 52 came out today. This would probably be a good time to read the last, oh, 32 issues or so.
Buying a weekly series of issues really has to rank as a lousy idea on my part. Especially because by all accounts, the story shifted somewhere along the line [...]
I reviewed this giant hardcover helping of George Perez art over at theLogBook, so go ahead and check it out.
As part of the effort to cull the backlog, I’ve been bringing some of DC’s Archive hardcovers with me on the bus. I’ve read two volumes of Legion of Super-Heroes from the early 1970s, and an early volume of Batman from the early 40s. The interesting thing about the Legion Archives is that there are [...]
I went ot the comic shop Thursday. It was the first time I had been there in ten weeks, judging by the number of copies of 52 that were waiting for me. I didn’t touch the pile of comics until this afternoon, when I pulled out two issues of Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes, [...]
Pattie, Alex and I went to the Baltimore Comic-Con earlier this month. We’d heard a lot about the con, but never quite managed to get there. It’s quite a nice gathering - very comics-focused, unlike cons like San Diego and Wizard World that have a heavy pop culture emphasis. I’d say the guest list was [...]