Comics Fondle

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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Reading “The Extremists”–and, I guess, all of Brubaker’s X-Men to date–I’m beginning to think one really, really needs to be a Warpath fan. It’s almost all Warpath, all the time. The funny thing is… Brubaker really ought to write Fantastic Four, given Ben and Johnny’s cameo in the story. Otherwise, he’s kind of lost his […]

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First Class #1 starts just like you’d expect–with lame jokes. The Beast is so smart, he tries lecturing panicked people; Iceman makes claws, which Marvel Girl mocks. Loads of goodness–the first issue is narrated by Iceman, his letters to his mom, which bleeds stock device–but then it changes. Once Professor X tells Angel the reason […]

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I hate to say it, but I think Uncanny X-Men is probably the best thing Ed Brubaker’s writing right now. It’s a big fat space adventure with some sci-fi standards and lots of continuity, none of which I knew, and it’s not afraid of being too serious, at least in terms of the reading experience.
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