Read Freak Angels, which was very good. Gorgeous art and the story is entrancing start from finish. Reminded me a bit of la nuit des enfants rois.

The Immortal Iron-First

Aka the last chance for me to find out if Fraction actually can write or if everything he does is crappy. And, errr, yes, actually this was pretty damn good. Very solid ( Read more... )

Like with other issues of sexism in comics, the problematic narratives revolving around female characters becoming dangerous and insane / evil (the insane=evil thing in itself would be very much worth the examination and could be easily seen as worse than gender issues, but I’m not sure I’m up to it) as a result of their power was something I’ ( Read more... )

Miller's run on Daredevil, including Born Again

Okay, this was very good. Damnit, now I have to praise Miller
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So I really was planning on reading Immortal Iron Fist next, but then I was at my public library and I couldn't find anything of much interest, and there Alias was, so I took it. Turn out that might have not been such a good idea, because the French translation is horrible. Like sometimes the translator left some English words (like "Man" or " ( Read more... )

X-Men related stuff I've read since the last:

The Longshot miniseries: Good but not as good as it wants to be. Still very neat ideas thrown in the lot, and it's always fun to have a Fool archetype as protagonist - we don't have enough of those.

Finished reading the Claremont penned New Mutants story, which ended on a pretty high note.

Up to ( Read more... )

Daredevil - Man without Fearminiseries by Miller

This is all-right; but man is it wordy. Srsly, slow down with the narration boxes here!
Not sure if I have much else to say; it works well as an introduction to the character via origin story.

Chase

Very nice series. The art is awesome, Williams III oblige, and I really love Chase's character as ( Read more... )

Checkmate (Rucka)

Solid stories, and as always with Rucka, lots of badass women; but - well I think the big problem is I'm not that interested in spy stories (think I mentioned that while talking about Secret Warriors) especially in a superhero comic context when they're going to fight against ridiculous organisations - so I can't say I was ( Read more... )

I'm due an update I think. I haven't been reading much lately, but I just started reading Checkmate; and mostly, I've been continuing reading Claremont era X-Men stuff.

Liked a lot of the X-Men stuff - I'm up to issue #200 - though the art is starting to get very uneven. Let's not even mention the hairstyles. I kind of really liked the meeting ( Read more... )

21 x Loki & co (kid!Loki, fem!Loki, regular!Loki, Ikol, Thor, Odin, Sif, Jormungand ( Read more... )

Realm of Kings

Hmm, not thinking much of the overall plot; though the individual stories weren't so bad. I think i'd have enjoyed it more if I'd read each one separately rather than interwoven (actually, the same is probably true of War of Kings, but at least there was more of a main plot there necessitating it). Of course it doesn't help that ( Read more... )