I wound up being disappointed in DC’s Infinite Crisis crossover in large part because, as I said in an earlier post, the main draw for me was Phil Jimenez drawing the crap out of the DC Universe. For whatever reason, that didn’t quite happen - Jimenez was unable to draw every page of every issue, [...]
Been doing a lot of story-reading at bed time these days, and it strikes me that Grant Morrison is considered a genius, in part, for breaking the fourth wall and inserting a metafictional component into his comics like Animal Man and Invisibles. Meanwhile, thanks to Jon Stone and Liz Smollin, we’ve been feeding the same [...]
Comic-Con International is almost upon us. I have to admit, at this point, I feel almost no pangs of regret that Pattie and I aren’t going this year. We’ve done it three times, and it is truly exhausting. There’s a little bit of a diminishing returns factor, in that we’ve seen a lot of the [...]
I feel like blogging some good news tonight. Universal Studios has optioned The Red Star. There aren’t many details i nthat article, and it mostly focuses on the Russian director that is developing the film, but this is great news for Christian Gossett and the folks at Archangel Studios. Not only is it a nifty [...]
OK, Netflix just delivered the first disc of Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman season 1. And I may very well review the whole set when I’m finished. But between this, Superman Returns, DC’s Infinite Crisis and One Year Later extravaganzas, and maybe the occasional Smallville episode, I figure I’m going to do [...]
Chris Gossett, whose Red Star is one of my favorite comics ever, has just launched the Project Antares blog to keep folks up to date on the status of Red Star-related projects. Since it’s Goss, and the man has a bit of a verbose streak, you can also expect plenty of personal anecdotes and political [...]
Finally got around to reading the first hardcover volume of Marvel’s Supreme Power series. It contains the contents of the first 12 issues, or the first two softcover collections, in a larger size that really benefits Gary Frank’s art. I read the first softcover and reviewed it for theLogBook, but decided to switch to the [...]
This is a belated post, but I figure I should point out that my brother Brian has been the namesake for not one but two bit characters in DC Comics over the last several months. Marc Andreyko named a federal agent (or is he?) after him in Manhunter, and Geoff Johns made him a prison [...]
I started collecting comics in 1989, as the hype for Tim Burton’s Batman was ramping up and a month or two after DC Comics killed Jason Todd, the second Robin, in an event that scored major media attention. So it’s little surprise I started my comics collection with Batman, a book I’ve bought off and [...]
So I just read Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s All-Star Superman #1. I definitely liked it enough to follow the series, but it wasn’t quite what I expected. (In my opinion, it could be better than what I expected. So no complaints there.)
Spoilers on the inside.