2010 May
The Return of Bruce Wayne #1 Review
The return of Bruce Wayne begins this week with the aptly titled The Return of Bruce Wayne #1, by Grant Morrison and Chris Sprouse. It picks up where Final Crisis #1 left off, with Batman in the time of Anthro (DC’s “first” hero) and it is quite awesome.
It IS Pretty Funny How That Sims’ “Racial Regression” Thing Worked Out…
You really have to give Chris Sims a ton of credit for the timing of his piece, “The Racial Politics of Regression Storytelling,” which he posted at Comics Alliance last week (Bill linked to it this Sunday, beating me to it). The basic gist of the piece is that DC, by regressing to the previous [...]
A review a day: Booth
Ah, historical fiction! Who doesn’t love historical fiction?
The Greatest Geoff Johns Stories Ever Told!
Every day in May we will reveal the greatest stories ever told starring a particular character or written/drawn by a particular creator (and throughout the month, you’ll get daily chances to vote for NEXT week’s lists). These lists are voted on by YOU, the reader! Here is the list of characters/creators featured so far (along [...]
A Year of Cool Comics – Day 132
Here is the latest in our year-long look at one cool comic (whether it be a self-contained work, an ongoing comic or a run on a long-running title that featured multiple creative teams on it over the years) a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the moments posted so far! Today [...]
The Greatest Keith Giffen Stories Ever Told! – Voting
Here’s the latest of the daily voting threads for The Greatest ____ Stories Ever Told! Our next creator up for voting is Keith Giffen. Giffen has written or drawn almost all of the most famous characters for DC and Marvel. He might be most famous for his run as co-writer of Justice League International. Or [...]
Committed: Transformation
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Today I was reading Enigma in the bath and got all excited about transformation. Initially I was enjoying it because it so blatantly explores the moment of personal transformation, and this is something which I’m always interested in.
Blue Moon Reviews — Black Blizzard
You might know the name Yoshihiro Tatsumi from its frequent appearance on lists of Eisner nominees, including this year’s candidates for the Eisner Hall of Fame. He didn’t start out penning autobiographical masterpieces like A Drifting Life, however. One of his earlier endeavors was Black Blizzard, a noir thriller in which two accused murderers—on the [...]
The Greatest Thor Stories Ever Told!
Every day in May we will reveal the greatest stories ever told starring a particular character or written/drawn by a particular creator (and throughout the month, you’ll get daily chances to vote for NEXT week’s lists). These lists are voted on by YOU, the reader! Here is the list of characters/creators featured so far (along [...]
A Year of Cool Comics – Day 131
Here is the latest in our year-long look at one cool comic (whether it be a self-contained work, an ongoing comic or a run on a long-running title that featured multiple creative teams on it over the years) a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the moments posted so far! Today [...]
The Greatest Rogue Stories Ever Told! – Voting
Here’s the latest of the daily voting threads for The Greatest ____ Stories Ever Told! Our next character up for voting is Rogue. Rogue has been one of the most popular members of the X-Men for many years now. She was popular enough that she heavily featured in both the X-Men animated series and the [...]
Comics You Should Own flashback – Challengers of the Unknown #1-8
Here’s the comic that I thought might convince T. that Jeph Loeb wasn’t always terrible. Alas, it was not to be! But maybe I can convince some other people!
Random Siege Thoughts! (May 11, 2010)
Random Thought! It’s an all Bendis, all Siege edition this week as I prepare for tomorrow’s release of Siege #4, Dark Avengers #16, and New Avengers Finale #1 (all of which I’m reviewing for CBR) by rereading the Bendis-penned issues of Siege and its tie-ins. You’ve been warned, so Bendis haters beware. Thoughts will be [...]
A review a day: Second Thoughts
Oh, those crazy Swedes. They didn’t stop with giving the world ABBA … now they give us this graphic novel!
