Comics Fondle

This issue is a competent Kirby homage, but it’s strangely detached (especially for a story called The American Evolution and featuring a major subplot about being selfless). Steve Rude’s art is gorgeous, which is no surprise, but Evanier’s script is lifeless. His Jimmy Olsen is a compelling protagonist, however, even as he moves through the […]

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Wow. That one was disappointing. While Nexus is rather pretty in color, Mike Baron’s future earth (and future melodrama involving decapitated miners mind-powering… something… space ships maybe) is incredibly unimaginative. At the beginning of the first issue is a blurb recapping the previous issues and it freaking gives away one of the surprises.
Basically, all these […]

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Now, I’ve heard of Nexus, of course. I’d heard of it, I mean. I read a feature in Back Issue about it and, you know, I’d heard of it–especially after Steve Rude told everyone not to buy the Dark Horse released archives because Dark Horse was charging fifty bucks for six issues. But it’s taken […]

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