Comics Fondle

Jones’s third issue of Checkmate is his best and his third issue of War That Time Forgot is the worst.
Both are action issues, the difference comes from Checkmate being more analog to a disaster movie while War That Time Forgot is some kind of strange adventure movie. Lots of stuff happens, but most of it’s just confusing. The art’s […]

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Bruce Jones’s second issue of Checkmate is slightly better than the first. Instead of setting scenes in “the real world,” Jones opens the issue with an old Inuit proverb or something like one. It’s a monster story–big monsters get angry at the misuse of the world’s resources and go crazy. The interesting part of this […]

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I discovered Bruce Jones’s 1980s works (Somerset Holmes, Silverheels, some others) just before he quit Marvel to go to DC. I still got to read his Hulk, which provided occasionally mediocre, but mostly fantastic (as evidenced in the latest film adaptation, where the Jones details are some of the best), but his DC work has […]

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