Comics Fondle

Slott tries really, really hard. But the earring-wearing Harry Osborn, the weirdly youngish Aunt May (think Ultimate Spider-Man), the endless malarky with the Bugle… Brand New Day is off to a terrible start. Some of the problems stem from the relaunch, which barely deals with the continuity changes (the most interesting things about the comic), […]

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Slott’s She-Hulk run–with a writing assist from Templeton–ends with a disinterested grunt… better than a whimper, better than a moan… but….
I mean, it’s really nice to have some of the loose ends tied up, although there are constant reminders of the stuff Slott never got around to doing, and he and Templeton find a nice […]

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Dan Slott usually does single issue stories or two issue stories and there are some two parters in these many issues of She-Hulk. Laws of Attraction runs eight issues (nine if you count the not traded #14, which I read, and ten if you include the Two-Gun Kid special) and there’s actually not a lot […]

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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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Dan Slott does great Spider-Man. I’m not sure how well this Free Comic Book Day issue sells Spider-Man (or Spider-Man 3), but it’s a great time. Slott mixes in all the things I think of when I think of Spider-Man–the concern for Aunt May, the public distrust, the wacky supervillain. In this one, the supervillain […]

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