i watched justice league: the new frontier last night, just hours after finishing the comics. and i really liked it. obviously they couldn't put six over-sized issues worth of material into a 75 minute animated movie, but i think they did a really good job with capturing the overall style and themes of the story. and i'm always amazed at the actors ( Read more... )

as i mentioned a while ago, i've been buying a lot of comics over the last while, starting last summer (i blame disposable income and a semi-lucrative commission-based sales job). until a few years ago, my target collection had revolved around superman: i aimed to own every superman comic published after crisis on infinite earths. however, as that ( Read more... )

well, i saw superman returns with humpstar on wednesday night. i should probably preface this with the fact that i've been collecting comics for almost 10 years now, and the one constant in my collecting has always been the myriad superman titles. my superman collection is complete back to 1986 (crisis on infinite earths, for you fellow geeks). so it's ( Read more... )

I took it upon myself to review a few of the scads of new DC books we're currently seeing.

( Ion #1, Blue Beetle #2, Checkmate #1 )

so am i the last person to find out that a history of violence was originally a dc comic (or technically, graphic novel) from like 1988?? the only reason i even found that out was from reading some old comics and seeing an ad for it. they didn't really advertise that aspect of the movie, i suppose. it's sorta funny that the movie was relatively ( Read more... )