Comics Fondle

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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There’s a disconnect between writing and art after Deadman’s second issue. It takes Jones a long time–two issues being a long time for this one–to define what the series is going to be (an almost-espionage thriller with a few twists, major and minor) and once he does, Watkiss’s art doesn’t work anymore. Yes, seeing Watkiss […]

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There’s something very genial and inoffensive about Deadman #1. Even with the bad dialogue–mostly when the main character is talking to himself, so I get it… needs to exposition, right?–the issue is a bit of a goof. Not a bad goof, but a good goof. It spins the reader around and around and stops he […]

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Marvel priced the collection of these issues at twelve dollars list, which is kind of nuts because they take about twenty-two minutes to read all together. I’m not complaining because it’s got a high re-read value, but still. I’ll bet if they priced them cheaper or put two trades together, they’d sell (especially with the […]

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It’s been a while since I read the previous Bruce Jones Hulk collection, so I really didn’t know what was going on with Jones’s lengthy (I’m assuming it goes on the entire run) conspiracy stuff. Nicely, it doesn’t really matter. This collection, Abominable is freaking awesome. I suppose I have to make the frequent comment, […]

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