Comics Fondle

If I recall correctly, Morrison’s only really cliffhung All-Star Superman once. Last issue, he did not, instead doing an intricately jumbled timeline with a real conclusion. This issue, he wraps up some of the things he talks about in the previous issue, but doesn’t show… namely, the new costume and a big fight. So there’s […]

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I hate to say it, but All-Star Superman #10 serves as a definite example of why no Superman book’s ever going to be a big bestseller. This issue, chronicling the last day before the radiation poisoning is going to defeat Superman, is the best (so far) in the series–I imagine Morrison will do big things […]

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Really, I don’t know what the point there might be in talking about All-Star Superman #9. I picked it up, looking for a quick read, something I’d been putting off (All-Star Superman, not a quick read) and here it is: it’s just too good to really talk about.
I mean, I don’t know what Grant Morrison’s […]

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It was no mistake… Grant Morrison really does write Tim Drake to be a total douche. At one point, another character remarks on it as an aside to herself. He’s a real jerk. Maybe he’s doing to get killed in Final Crisis. I mean, hopefully he’ll get killed in Final Crisis.
The art by J.H. Williams […]

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I just told my wife last night, the last decide year to be born to know good movies was 1978. I’m not sure what the last good year for comic books was, but it must have been before that, because no one should have had to go through the 1990s. Reading Batman #666 reminded me […]

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