After voraciously picking up his sister’s leftover comics as a young lad, Pedro bought anything that had John Romita Jr drawing it, something he still does to this day. His tiny little hands grabbed whatever they could, and left him with a taste for Captain America, Over-Sized Hardcovers, Steve Weismann, Ballin’, Amanda Waller, and Hello Kitty. He has been known to call Alan Moore a crybaby, seen suggesting tweaks to Geoff Johns’ JSA, laughing at Joe’s Manifesto and awaiting the next single of Incredible Hercules. The only thing he loves more than America are gay mutants. His current pursuits are playing Expert drums in Rock Band and finding how you got kiddie porn on to your computer. He is happy to hear that his Metal Gear Solid fan-fiction has finally disappeared off the internet.
Two, much to my annoyance, reading superhero comics still carries the stench of loser. The ghost of Comic Book Guy haunts many…
But that guy with the stack of DC and Marvel comics? Well, he’s an unattractive social outcast in his thirties with dodgy views on women and minorities who sweats profusely and writes long-winded essays […]
It depends on how well-informed the discussion is. I liking hearing how my work is perceived by readers and how they would categorize my “style,” but too often its a sweeping observation based on just one book, or one type of lead character. I grow very weary of snark, and just today someone pointed me […]
Everyone and their mom has been talking about the new Marvel Comics online initiative and how it will and won’t change the industry forever. There’s a lot of interesting discussion out there right now, but you don’t really give a shit about that. You want to know if there are any comics on the site […]
Grady Klien
The Lost Colony, Book One: The Snodgrass Conspiracy
First Second
Lost Colony didn’t work for me for the first two thirds of the story. It throws a lot of characters at you, and the setting - an island where slavery is abolished in early colonial America - is weirdly defined. The art was jarring as Klien’s […]
K. Thor Jensen
Red Eye, Black Eye
Alternative Comics
In the first 3 pages of the book, Thor’s life falls apart in a humorously tragic way. Even though it’s all very sad shit, he depicts it so well that you can’t help laugh when you see him purchase an Ameripass, the greyhound version of an unlimited bus […]
Bryan Lee O’Malley
Scott Pilgrim, Vol 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
Oni Press
Scott Pilgrim cockteases you with 10 color pages at the beginning of volume 4, that I still don’t get the meaning of. It’s a shame since it’s so pretty. Either way, the black and white art is still expressive and tells a lot with […]
There will be no new content this week since a combination of work, a trade giveaway, graduate school, a plague upon the New York Yankees and the inability of the Mets to do anything right, the increase of the Canadian dollar vs. the American Dollar, and the revival of New Jack Swing has taken […]
Before picking up the omnibus, I have to say I have never read Jack Kirby at all. I know of him only though a second or third party. It’s always been Waid or Morrison’s interpretation of Kirby concepts that I end up reading. Even as engaging as their spin was on the characters, the energy […]
This Sunday, Mike Wieringo passed away at the age of 44. Mike was an artist on a number of books, but he was mostly known for his runs on Impulse, Spider-man, and Fantastic Four.
There are tons of fantastic tributes out there from friends and co-workers of Mike Wieringo that let you know more about […]
I just don’t get DC at all lately. Yesterday at DC’s Countdown Panel a fan asked Palmiotti about Monolith, who had a short lived series in 2004. Palmiotti let us know they were hopeful to use him in another book down the line. However, Dan DiDio said they’re hoping to collect the Monolith series sometime […]
We review Blue Beetle and La Araña. Which new Teenage Latin Superhero is worth reading?
The short version, we loved Blue Beetle and didn’t like La Araña. We have a really fun discussion about it, listen in…
P.S: Blue Beetle really should be held as a proof of design on how to introduce and work in continuity […]
I just finished reading the Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus and I had some thoughts that I wanted to share before I put up a review later this week.
Okay, I am a moron for not realizing that Scott Free’s name was such an obvious pun. I don’t know why I just picked it up.
Jack […]
We’re really not a linkblog but reading this interview with Dan Didio at The ComicBloc, I’m left speechless. I’m also technically not supposed to gripe about Didio publicly after my promise on the podcast. I’m just gonna hit you with this quote.
ELM: Before the interview, I went back to look at the press release […]
FBB went to Mocca this week and had a generally good time. I bought a few things, specifically three comics from Calvera Comics out of Miami, FL.
Their table attracted me at the show due to a combination of stunning artwork and a great attitude from the people there. I had just ran into the writer […]
Pedro’s back, and we discuss the weekend’s comiccon’s madness, as well as New Avengers #31.
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