Comics Fondle

I only read the first three issues of Scalped because I was following the inverse of my recent Crossing Midnight policy (read to three, get a B, read to five, get an A), because Scalped gets an A from maybe even the first issue. The pacing in this comic is absolutely fantastic–not just Aaron’s jumbled, […]

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First Class #1 starts just like you’d expect–with lame jokes. The Beast is so smart, he tries lecturing panicked people; Iceman makes claws, which Marvel Girl mocks. Loads of goodness–the first issue is narrated by Iceman, his letters to his mom, which bleeds stock device–but then it changes. Once Professor X tells Angel the reason […]

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I tracked down and read Sword of the Atom because DC’s got a trade coming out in August and I didn’t want to order it and get a piece of crap. Even though the second issue goes way too far with its Marvel-style recap (you know, when there’s a one or two page recap of […]

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Score one for originality… Tales of the Unexpected #1 opens with a Sixth Sense “homage.” Or it rips it off… one or the other. It’s so lame I kept wondering if one could do “bullet-time” in a comic book, just for the full 1999 experience. Maybe get some Prince playing.
Why’s this comic called Tales of […]

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I hadn’t realized The Damned was from Oni. It doesn’t really make any difference, it’s just I’d forgotten Oni was out there, except the irregular Local release.
Simply put, The Damned is a Hammett-esque mob story with demons. They have Italian names still–one of them has Dante’s last name, which I’m too tired to look up–and […]

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