Comics Fondle

B. Clay Moore’s The Leading Man is at its best when it’s not about its titular character, an actor slash super-spy (all big Hollywood actors are super-spies, since they’re often on location). When Moore’s writing that character, the comic drags. In the five issues, there’s only one scene when the character’s reasonably likable. However, when […]

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I’m a big fan of talking stuffed animals. I’m not sure if it’s an established genre (it should be), but I also think whoever makes these things, they’re going to make a fortune. Who wouldn’t want a walking talking teddy bear? Who knows, they could make farting sounds at inopportune moments and so on. Mr. […]

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Unique’s from Platinum Studios, who I believe develop comic “properties” for TV and movies in reverse… first they get the property optioned, then they published a comic book. Whatever. It’s a little odd since Unique’s from Dean Motter, who’s famous (to most people) for Mister X, but to me… well, he did Terminal City and […]

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I read some bad reviews of Dan Slott’s Avengers: The Initiative and didn’t believe them. I’ve never read anything bad from Slott before… but Initiative is awful. It’s if Fox News did one hours shows… oh, wait, I guess they do (“24”), so it’s kind of a mix of “American Idol,” “24,” and something else […]

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