Comics Fondle

The biggest development in this story–Jimmy learning Clark’s identity–gets no attention. Maybe it’s just because Final Crisis will undo it, but it might have something to do with Busiek not really having a handle on Jimmy as a protagonist. He just isn’t an interesting main character with Busiek’s narration and thought balloon-heavy approach. Jimmy doesn’t […]

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With a wonderful Eduardo Barreto cover of the Parasite menacing the super-cousins, I assumed this issue would be something of a team-up… forgetting what it said at the end of the last Supergirl, that the stories would be parallel. And it’s not Barreto on the interiors, it’s Curt Swan and, unfortunately, Swan’s not very tight […]

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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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