So, I couldn't resist giving the new Animal Man series a chance, because I love the character, and the story may have potential, or at least the opening doesn't seem worse than average, but yikes, that art is seriously bad. (I preordered just based on series title, if I had seen page samples I might not have spent money on this ( Read more... )

I haven't seen any new issues of newuniversal (written by Warren Ellis, art by Salvador Larroca) in the last couple of solicitations, which led me to believe that it may have been a miniseries rather than an ongoing one as I thought, but then I actually read the first six issues-- I had read the first issue when it came out, but it seemed very much ( Read more... )

So I'm reading Daredevil #66, and rather contrary to the mood of the issue I find myself giggling constantly. You see, it has flashback sequences to the 1940s, and there's some villains talking "German", unfortunately too frequently for me to just overlook the dialog, i.e. it's not just one isolated speech balloon, but goes on for a few pages. And ( Read more... )

A recent post by buggery reminded me that I still hadn't read Batman: Family #1-8 (written by John Francis Moore, art by Stefan Gaudiano and by Rick Hoberg). So today I remedied that ( Read more... )

I'm annoyed with my comic store this week. I didn't get my whole order. Some wasn't too bad, they still had extra copies of Superman: Birthright #3 and Arkham Asylum: Living Hell #5, so that was easily fixable, but I ordered Supreme Power #2 and it wasn't in my order, nor did I see any extra copies when I browsed through the box with new stuff, yet ( Read more... )

After reading this interview with Chuck Austen (on the occasion of his upcoming run on Action Comics) I hope he'll never get his hands on a Batman title. The interview also shows that not only fan writers have problems sometimes to take criticism graciously. I mean, I like some of the comics he wrote okay (though I'm not thrilled with the recent ( Read more... )

To keep track of minor characters through DC crossovers drawn by several different artists it would be really helpful, if each character kept the same appearance, hair color, and general skin tone through out. I mean for example in Robin #86 Vincent Del Arrazzio has sometimes brown sometimes blond hair, not black though, in Detective Comics #754 ( Read more... )

I talk about Batman again. I seem to do that a lot lately...

( Anyway, here are my thoughts on Batman: A Death in the Family for all those not yet tired of my Batverse blatherings. *g* )