Comics Fondle

Batman: Turning Points has its problems. Greg Rucka trying to write in Frank Miller’s Year One style is atrocious and both Ed Brubaker and Chuck Dixon get saddled with generally useless issues. Brubaker writes two issues and his first one is a fun tribute to 1960s Batman, but his second one is so forgettable–well, I […]

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Kurt Busiek’s Aquaman was advertised, mostly by Busiek himself I think, as an underwater Conan, as Busiek left Dark Horse’s excellent Conan series behind for a DC Comics exclusive contract. Aquaman is no Conan–while Busiek does get to explore an imaginary world, there’s none of the fetishistic enthusiasm he had in Conan and the characters […]

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