Comics Fondle

Here’s where Greg Rucka puts that liberal arts degree to use and does an advertisement for Bush’s Iraq War (”everyone knows Iraq funded 9/11″). I suppose it was inevitable, but it does bring up the point–does a topical work, written either by an intentional perjurer or unwitting rube, suffer when the point is proven (or, […]

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I know Bryan Lee O’Malley is famous and all (not to mention the impending movie), but keep him away from Brian Hurtt’s pencils. O’Malley inks the first issue and he does terrible, terrible things to Hurtt’s pencils. He sucks the delicacy from the art.
But otherwise, this arc is interesting. Rucka manages to turn a simple […]

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Calling Queen and Country Greg Rucka’s attempt at a BBC series sounds about right, but there’s a lot more to what he does with the series. He’s made a series–and I’ve thought about reviewing it issue to issue, but the pacing just seems wrong for it–one cannot easily talk about. It’s got to do with […]

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Batman: Turning Points has its problems. Greg Rucka trying to write in Frank Miller’s Year One style is atrocious and both Ed Brubaker and Chuck Dixon get saddled with generally useless issues. Brubaker writes two issues and his first one is a fun tribute to 1960s Batman, but his second one is so forgettable–well, I […]

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