Comics Fondle

My favorite thing about X-23 is really simple: a single narrator. I’m not a fan of the first person narrator’s journals or thoughts replacing the thought balloon or the exposition box in general, but I can’t stand series with multiple narrators per issue… or special issues where the different narrator sounds just the same as […]

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Die Valkryie #1 could really be about anything and the Stelfreeze art would make it worth a look. I’m not familiar with the previous Ride titles, but I imagine they’re similarly absurd. There’s a lot of funny moments, nice Stelfreeze art, and an acceptable plot. The present action of the comic book is in spurts, […]

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I’m having a beer to read this comic, which is the wrong order. I should have a beer when I read the Slott backlash. “Comics Slop” has never gotten more readers then when Dan Slott took me to task for not liking some of his She-Hulk issues. Not to be petty, but he never did […]

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I didn’t order Black Summer #0. My retailer was nice enough to include it in with my other stuff. I think one of the Savage Critics already pointed out it isn’t really a “preview” issue or a prologue, but the first part of the story… so #0 is a little misleading. But whatever. I don’t […]

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I tracked down Skinwalker because of Brian Hurtt. I think I’d always thought his first work was in Queen and Country or something, so this late 2001-early 2002 series was–I thought–going to be a discovered delight (discovered delights being forgotten works, the best example being Elia Kazan’s Wild River, which are mostly unknown and absolutely […]

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