Comics Fondle

If I recall correctly, Morrison’s only really cliffhung All-Star Superman once. Last issue, he did not, instead doing an intricately jumbled timeline with a real conclusion. This issue, he wraps up some of the things he talks about in the previous issue, but doesn’t show… namely, the new costume and a big fight. So there’s […]

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I hate to say it, but All-Star Superman #10 serves as a definite example of why no Superman book’s ever going to be a big bestseller. This issue, chronicling the last day before the radiation poisoning is going to defeat Superman, is the best (so far) in the series–I imagine Morrison will do big things […]

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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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This issue is strangely light and heavy.
It’s Busiek’s post-Infinite Crisis origin of Jimmy Olsen and a lot of it is light. Jimmy’s a good-hearted, hard-working kid with a big problem–he’s on the run from the mob! Will his new friends at the Daily Planet help him out? Gee whiz, Superman, I bet they will.
Busiek can […]

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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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