Manga and Comic Reviews
After receiving much exposure from Grant Morrison’s “Batman” run, the Dark Knight and Boy Wonder’s English counterparts get their own mini-series. Now, the thing you have to understand about their England is that it’s a place that never quite left what we Americans regard as comics’ “Silver Age.” You’ve got goofy heroes like Salt of […]
Long time readers will know that I like Peter David’s “X-Factor” a great deal. In fact, the first six volumes of his current run are comics that I’d recommend to people who generally aren’t interested in the “X-Men” franchise. That hasn’t been the case for a while now, but David still knows how to write […]
Stories where the future has gone to hell for mutants, or where changes to the past have made for a wretched present day are a recurring trend in the “X-Men” universe. You’ve got classics like “Days of Future Past” that started the whole trend, and the “Age of Apocalypse” which provided the franchise with one […]
No, it doesn’t redeem the series. In fact, this concluding volume is disappointing in a different way than its predecessors. Where the second and third volumes squandered the momentum from the first by proceeding at an abysmally slow pace and dwelling on plot points that should’ve been foregone conclusions, this concluding one actually picks up […]
Oh. So THAT’S what Robert Kirkman was talking about when he mentioned the “Carl Thing” that was going to be reprinted in this volume. He mentioned this at a con a few months back and (thankfully) didn’t go into it because the majority of the audience were trade-waiters like me. Anyway, the moment itself is […]
When the post-”Blackest Night” initiative at DC was given the name “Brightest Day,” a buddy of mine remarked, “You know, now they’re going to do a crossover for every verse of the Green Lantern oath.” To which I replied, “SHHHHHHH! Don’t give them ideas!” Fortunately writers Geoff “Green Lantern” Johns, Tony “Green Lantern Corps.” Bedard, […]