Comics Fondle

Sword of the Atom was a strange limited series, ably mixing unlikely genres, but the first special is even more different. Essentially an epilogue to the limited series–the majority of the comic is spent retelling the limited series while introducing different perspectives on the events–it’s a mature comic book about divorce and friendship and love. […]

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Maybe the title should be “Mark Waid takes you on a tour of the DC Universe”. Or, more appropriately, he takes you on a tour of the series near cancellation (Legion, Supergirl, Blue Beetle) in an attempt to get you to read said comic books. A lot of the comic feels like one of the […]

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Batman: Red Rain is not bad at all. The beginning, the slow, mysterious lead-in to the Dracula revelation is actually handled wonderfully. Moench does a great job of both establishing the otherworldly Gotham City and getting his story going… some of it reminds a lot of Dracula, for the beginning anyway, and I’m sure that […]

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Reading Chuck Dixon’s Nightwing today is a little weird… the period where it was a bestseller has past and it’s hard to separate the knowledge of where the story is going from what is there in the first three issues. Because, really, there’s not much… Bendis certainly shouldn’t be credited (or demeaned) for starting “decompressed” […]

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Going back to 1980s, thought-balloon filled, endlessly omnisciently narrated comic books is a bit of a chore. It shouldn’t be–a well-written thought-balloon or a well-written omniscient narrator should be fine… and maybe they are. Except Paul Kupperberg is annoying when he does the second–this issue of Supergirl is constant, explanatory narration and it’s exhausting to […]

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