Comics Fondle

Common Foe is a terrible, terrible comic book. It’s truly incompetent. Over its five issues, the comic goes through two artists and neither of them can draw distinctive figures. It’s not just the characters all looking alike, even the uniforms look alike. The monsters all look the same and are supposed to, so I guess […]

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I’m trying hard not to be negative–and these issues are in no way bad–but they’re not super. I’ve only read the one other Legion story before (The Great Darkness Saga) so I know I’m going to be a little iffy on knowing what’s going on and who people are… but something about these issues, collected […]

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Most of Emerald Dawn is really lousy, which is too bad, because the space stuff is fun. The stuff on earth, all the lame Hal Jordan gets drunk, crashes a car with his friends in it, goes to jail–it’s beyond terrible. The space stuff isn’t exactly well-written. Gerard Jones’s dialogue is terrible, whereas Priest’s dialogue […]

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