Comics Fondle

A talking heads issue, mostly. Starting it, I thought Roger Petersen got the worst inker ever (the kind who gave the fifteen year-old girls breast enlargements). No, just a new penciller–Giuseppe Camuncoli, who’s a terrible fit for the book. He can’t do Vaughan’s cinematic scenes and, while his people do look different, their faces just […]

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And down again. Well, not completely, but closer than it ought to be. Vaughan embraces his standard practice for the series again–shunning Tefé as a protagonist and instead showing the human response to her actions. Here, it works, but for a handful of dumb reasons. First and foremost, he’s not reminding the reader every other […]

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I didn’t want to start reading Y until I heard how it ended. A friend said it ended well. Or better than well. Whichever. So I figured I’d better get started.
Vaughan paces the first arc beautifully, doing it in acts. First issue, first act, last issue, third act. It’s not revolutionary, but it’s thoughtful and […]

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Once again–I’m not sure when the last time was, looking would depress me (wasted reading time and all)–Vaughan gets close to having a good comic book here. Tefé and Constantine go for a walk and talk about some stuff. Some of it’s cool stuff, like Tefé being an over-powered twit and her sidekicks being lame, […]

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Vaughan’s Swamp Thing now makes a bunch of sense. I thought he was just ignoring Mark Millar’s run, but he’s not. He’s shitting on the previous Swamp Thing comic and the work of those writers. He’s turned Swamp Thing père into an amoral monster to suit his lousy story about Team Tefé sitting around a […]

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