Comics Fondle

This issue barely qualifies as a Werewolf by Night, with Isabella focusing mostly on Tigra. Jack Russell shows up for the first couple pages (he forgets it’s going to be a full moon, down in Mexico on vacation). Then he turns into the werewolf and stays the werewolf the rest of the issue. There’s even […]

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A lot of Emperor Vulcan is good. Specifically, the first two issues. Yost has a solid handle on the characters, even if his dialogue is a tad expository and lame. Paco Diaz’s art is also better in the first two issues than in the last three, since I spent the last three repeatedly checking the […]

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Friedrich continues the wrap-up of the series subplots–the mysterious neighbor is revealed to be a werewolf too (with black fur, since the guy’s black) and the werewolf-hunting cop shows up and the Conway-heavy Committee makes some silly appearances–while doing a couple neat things. Well, one neat thing. Friedrich ties it all into something going on […]

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I rarely mention editors because I like to pretend comic books–even mainstream comic books–in the end, succeed or fail based on the content, not the politics behind the content. With Dead of Night Featuring Man-Thing, however, it’s impossible to ignore the editorial “contribution.” Man-Thing is well-written and well-illustrated, but it’s a bad comic. Why? Not […]

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The first Don Perlin issue. Oh, how I have dreaded this day. Perlin goes all out, even has a two-page transformation spread. The nicest thing I can say is Perlin really does understand how to compose a panel, how to do an action scene. That his characters look different from page to page and his […]

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