Comics Fondle

Werewolf by Night has, with his third and fourth appearances (the latter starting his solo book), a clear problem… his adventures involve guest-stars. Werewolf by Night #1 features–in addition to some of the most beautiful Ploog panels I can remember (it’s like he was holding out on sequences for the solo book, particularly the transformation […]

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There are a handful of things I harp on repeatedly here at Comics Fondle. Primarily, static figures and men writing female narrators. The argument for the latter being, at best, they’re doing a respectful version of Jack Nicholson’s romance novel author from As Good As It Gets. Worst case… they’re writing a female narrator to […]

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It’s a miracle. Peter David actually wrote a worse issue of She-Hulk than the first one. This issue, featuring a fight scene in a mall (for three dollars–a trip to the mall… Marvel should have at least gotten in some product placement beyond Lego®s since Lego®s don’t really need advertising, being Lego®s and all), finishes […]

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I bitch and moan–frequently, whenever I get the chance–about Ed Brubaker’s pseudo-six issue arcs at Marvel. They might even say one of six, or one of five, but they’re really one of twelve or one of ten. So I knew going in to these issues of Captain America, Brubaker was going to cliffhang (this time […]

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I read Joe DeVito’s Kong: King of Skull Island back when it came out from Dark Horse a few years ago (I thought it was a comic, not a bad prose novel) so I figured I’d give the comic adaptation a shot. The novel is idiotic fan-fiction, accentuated with DeVito’s fine enough paintings… The problem […]

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