Comics Fondle

Just about half of Booster Gold’s first story-arc is a lighthearted, self-aware superhero throwback (with that polished Dan Jurgens superhero art not hurting a bit). It’s like “Quantum Leap” with Booster Gold–it’s a little tragic (Booster’s finally achieved selfless heroism, then has to pretend to give it up), it’s a lot funny, and there’s a […]

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There are a couple things really wrong with Metamorpho: Year One. Maybe three. First, Rex Mason is an idiot for being devoted to Jurgens’s Sapphire Stagg. Her re-imagining is basically a pettier, more superficial Paris Hilton. Second, Rex Mason is an idiot because he never figures out what’s going on around him, namely Stagg plotting […]

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I’m having a beer to read this comic, which is the wrong order. I should have a beer when I read the Slott backlash. “Comics Slop” has never gotten more readers then when Dan Slott took me to task for not liking some of his She-Hulk issues. Not to be petty, but he never did […]

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