Comics Fondle

As far as end of the world stories go… Legion is okay. Sanz does some really cool stuff, conceptually, with tying the art and style into the story going on. Unfortunately, Sanz’s story lacks a lot. His visuals are good–given how intricate the design and contrived the story, it’s undoubtedly going to sell to Hollywood […]

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Once again–I’m not sure when the last time was, looking would depress me (wasted reading time and all)–Vaughan gets close to having a good comic book here. Tefé and Constantine go for a walk and talk about some stuff. Some of it’s cool stuff, like Tefé being an over-powered twit and her sidekicks being lame, […]

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Superman tackles religion (with Fabian Nicieza writing–seriously, I thought it was Kurt Busiek), specifically a church with a metahuman on tap to murder. The first issue works really well, with Superman investigating, but also doing lots of the iconic stills in the sky. The art’s terrible, so the iconic stills only work if Goldman isn’t […]

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An odd issue–apparently a fill-in to cover for the transition between regular artists (Aparo to Alan Davis)–with three stories featuring three of the five Outsiders. Barr really foreshadows in the prologue, starring Halo and Metamorpho, with Halo griping about not getting her own story… notice Batman isn’t there. It’s a fine fill-in idea, but what […]

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With The Fantastic Four, Dwayne McDuffie ably fills the spot Dan Slott created (and filled for a while), the writer who a) can write and b) knows Marvel comic books are goofy. As I typed that, it occurred to me the position is sort of akin to how Bendis writes Spider-Man (regular, not Ultimate) but […]

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