Comics Fondle

It doesn’t really feel like I’m seventeen again, because when I was seventeen… well, I don’t know if there even was a Ghost Rider comic out. That said, Aaron’s take on Ghost Rider is very seventies. It’s the new school Marvel approach–the one Ed Brubaker used on his pre-Captain Bucky Captain America–mimic the old school, […]

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After Scalped, there’s nowhere I wouldn’t follow Jason Aaron… (well, I don’t know… not if he were scripting for Rob Liefeld, I suppose). But still, he’s now a Marvel exclusive and it seems like an odd fit. Aaron doing superheroes seems like an even odder one and Wolverine is, technically, Marvel’s second most popular superhero, […]

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I missed these issues the first time around, the danger of multi-story-arc collections… I read the first arc and forgot about the second.
Actually, going straight from issue three to issue six works. These two issues, though they do show a lot of backstory in scene, are covered in conversation in the subsequent collection. The end […]

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At first glance–if I’d picked up a copy of Scalped #6 and just paged through it–it might look like Aaron’s doing some kind of done-in-one, a jumping on point every issue. Until one started reading the issue and realized he or she was completely lost. This Scalped run centers around the casino opening and an […]

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I only read the first three issues of Scalped because I was following the inverse of my recent Crossing Midnight policy (read to three, get a B, read to five, get an A), because Scalped gets an A from maybe even the first issue. The pacing in this comic is absolutely fantastic–not just Aaron’s jumbled, […]

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