Comics Fondle

If Steve Epting has done anything, he’s established himself as Brubaker’s Captain America artist–the Mike Perkins fill-ins aside–so when Butch Guice comes on for an issue and a half, it’s clearly wrong. Guice isn’t matching Epting’s visual tone, which is kind of like The French Connection with superheroes. Guice’s is more like, no offense, Conquest […]

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Kurt Busiek’s Aquaman was advertised, mostly by Busiek himself I think, as an underwater Conan, as Busiek left Dark Horse’s excellent Conan series behind for a DC Comics exclusive contract. Aquaman is no Conan–while Busiek does get to explore an imaginary world, there’s none of the fetishistic enthusiasm he had in Conan and the characters […]

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