Comics Fondle

I read “Kraven’s Last Hunt” when I was nine, ten on the outside. I think it might have really messed me up. “Last Hunt” is an awesome (in terms of DeMatteis’s endeavor) look at fear, insanity and innocence. Lots of time, in the first half, are spent inside Kraven’s wacko mind, without it becoming clear […]

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There’s something very pleasing about sitting down to read some issues of Peter David’s X-Factor, after a six or seven issue wait, and have it be just as good as always. I don’t know if David picked his cast or whatnot, but he does a great job with all of them, creating that super-cast from […]

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Weird, word, wyrd. Weirdling is a highly derivative sci-fi horror comic, but the derivativeness doesn’t bother me at all (though I will list all the obvious references just for fun). No, what bugs me is the language. It’s all the same stuff I’ve heard before–“wyrd” in particular just rubs me the wrong way. And the […]

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I’m mad at John Rozum and I shouldn’t be. Even if the lame ending was his idea… there’s really no other way to end his two issue arc, because he’s not writing the third issue. Rozum, like most fill-in writers I’d assume (how would I know–I avoid most DC comics like the plague), writes an […]

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I’m trying to remember, but I think The Savage Brothers is, with the exception of Hero Squared, the finest thing Boom!’s put out. Savage Brothers is an absurdist, post-zombie apocalypse comedy with a heart (and some serious Star Wars rips). I can’t remember, but I don’t think the third issue ever came out as a […]

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