Hey, lots of things happened (Memorial Day, Travel for a Wedding, MOCCA) that conspired against a Pull List last week. I trust everyone got to the store okay anyway. This week I am late enough that I actually got to the store before posting this, so reviews will be intermixed! A friendly reminder to Those […]
Mighty Avengers #14 (Brian Michael Bendis/Khoi Pham/Danny Miki/Dean White)
I don’t think I’m alone when I say that, at least in this stage in the overall story, the Avengers tie-ins have been a more satisfying payoff for longtime readers than Secret Invasion itself. I don’t think this is a mistake; Secret Invasion is an ostensibly standalone […]
Well, it’s out, and at least it was only fifty cents.
Somewhere in the Illustrated Dictionary of Idioms, this issue’s cover is next to “The whole is less than the sum of its parts.” It’s cowritten by Grant Morrison and Geoff Johns, two industry juggernauts whose talents should perfectly patch over each others’ faults. It’s got […]
Hey everybody, Free Comic Book Day is nigh, but if you want to pay for your comics, here’s what to expect on the shelves this week! (This got delayed a bit by technical difficulties, so it’s now a combination of analysis and review!)
A lot of books one or more of us approve are out: Action […]
The first thing I can tell you about the con, was it’s been a long day, I’ll have more coherent stuff about this on a future podcast or article when I’m not dozing off as I type this.
First thing I hit was a screening of “Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist“. I didn’t mind […]
Fantastic Four #556: Now, this is getting a little ridiculous. I understand you want to establish your new villain as a badass - as someone who can take on all comers. I thought everything else about this issue was very enjoyable (although the standard Mark Millar disclaimer applies - if he’s annoyed you before you […]
PEDRO SEZ:
I really disliked the Comics Foundry preview I got at the MOCCA Arts Festival last year. I had high hopes for it: Wizard has been fucking up the job of being a comic magazine for so long and The Comics Journal has moved away from covering the superhero stuff in any way that […]
Right after the Wizard World LA announcement of the new additions to the Uncanny X-Men creative teams, FBB and FBB followers reacted with similar opinions. We love the writers, but one of the artists makes us shake our heads. It led to the production of an image that hit a couple of sites and eventually […]
Hey FBBArmy, remember Image? In recent years they seem to have transitioned from THE SPAWN PEOPLE into a publishing house that puts out a lot of smaller self-contained series that aren’t too far from the sort of thing post-Sandman Vertigo is known for, but with lesser-known creative teams. Books like Fell, Casanova, Pax […]
Superman #674: I’m not really sure if I’m going to miss Busiek on this title anymore, since Insect Queen was extremely lackluster and this just feels rather rushed - which, admittedly, is totally not Busiek’s fault (his original storyline, featuring the introduction of Chloe Sullivan, was killed for presumably editorial reasons and I believe he […]
Tamora Pierce, Timothy Liebe, Phil Briones, Al Rio
White Tiger: A Hero’s Compulsion
Marvel Comics
White Tiger isn’t a little bad, or a book that was marred with a few missteps. It is an outright handbook on how not to write a superhero comic. It seems to relish in a obscene number of cameos that will confuse […]
As someone who really digs a considerable amount of Warren Ellis’ published work (see Fell & Transmetropolitan) I was somewhat surprised to see that he was releasing a web comic called FreakAngels. I haven’t heard of any comic author going from the glitz and glamour of the publishing world to the wild west of online […]
This… is going to be long.
Before I begin, this week has three Ed Brubaker books, two Geoff Johns books, two Mike Carey books, a Mark Millar book, a Brian Michael Bendis book, a Greg Rucka book, a Grant Morrison book, a Frank Miller book, and a Jeff fucking Smith book. The new releases shelf is […]
It’s Thursday morning, so here’s the reviews. With no further delay, and more below the jump:
Batman and the Outsiders #4: This book is actually getting more interesting than I initially gave it credit for, although I’m really confused about how this lines up with Countdown (although this is hardly Chuck Dixon’s fault). That said, this […]
Alright, the first three are above the fold but there’s a huuuuuge dump of reviews here so most of them are after the jump. Enjoy!
Booster Gold #0: Something about the dialogue seemed clunkier in this issue, but that very well may have been a knowing nod back to Zero Hour. That said, it was shockingly […]