Comics Fondle

Trinity’s opening–the one previewed on the internet–is the kind of goofy thing one would have assumed a professional writer was beyond. Busiek has DC’s big two (and Wonder Woman, since they’re trying not to be sexist or something) having coffee in order to discuss their dreams. Busiek explains the reasoning later–Superman wanted to see his […]

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Brian K. Vaughan presents “The Secret Origin of Matches Malone!” Really. He does. These three issues feature Batman going “native” as a gangster, out to kill the Ventriloquist for killing the real Matches Malone. Again… really.

DC’s reprinting this crap in a Vaughan Batman trade in a couple months, which I imagine will kill lots of […]

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Reading Chuck Dixon’s Nightwing today is a little weird… the period where it was a bestseller has past and it’s hard to separate the knowledge of where the story is going from what is there in the first three issues. Because, really, there’s not much… Bendis certainly shouldn’t be credited (or demeaned) for starting “decompressed” […]

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