Comics Fondle

If Steve Epting has done anything, he’s established himself as Brubaker’s Captain America artist–the Mike Perkins fill-ins aside–so when Butch Guice comes on for an issue and a half, it’s clearly wrong. Guice isn’t matching Epting’s visual tone, which is kind of like The French Connection with superheroes. Guice’s is more like, no offense, Conquest […]

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I think I’m done with Brubaker’s Daredevil. This arc is probably the worst thing he’s ever written. Most of it shouldn’t even be called Daredevil, most of it’s all about the Hood and when it isn’t about the Hood, it’s about Mr. Fear.
Basically, this arc is “Brand New Day” for Daredevil, but Brubaker actually owns […]

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I bitch and moan–frequently, whenever I get the chance–about Ed Brubaker’s pseudo-six issue arcs at Marvel. They might even say one of six, or one of five, but they’re really one of twelve or one of ten. So I knew going in to these issues of Captain America, Brubaker was going to cliffhang (this time […]

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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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I don’t remember much about the first Criminal arc, other than Phillips’s art was beautiful and Brubaker had some kind of super-cop-out conclusion, on par with Sleeper: Season Two. So I approached the second Criminal arc with caution–I didn’t read it in floppies, I ignored online press. I basically forgot about it until it was […]

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