Comics Fondle

What does God need with a starship? What does Dracula need with a helicopter? That question, along with an eye-roll about every villain desperately needing some ancient tome Jack Russell usually happens upon accidentally, sums up the crossover. The first half, in Tomb of Dracula, is pretty solid (except Wolfman’s Transylvanian bar thug who speaks […]

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Finally, one of Werewolf’s longest subplots–the mystery of Jack’s step-father–gets wrapped up. It’s about ten issues too late, especially given Wolfman’s weak close to it (I’m assuming it’s the original conclusion, even if Gerry Conway’s not writing, the editor’s the same). In fact, it’s practically an aside, segueing immediately into the comic’s next issue.
Wolfman also […]

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Marv Wolfman does okay his first two issues out. Well, a qualified okay. He has so much narration about running down the street I just stopped reading it after a while.
It’s not his fault, for instance, after an issue of Tom Sutton inking Gil Kane–to great effect–Don Perlin takes over. Perlin doesn’t ruin the art, […]

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What’s really depressing about the New Teen Titans and Outsiders crossover is how bad both parts turn out. It’s a beautiful example of how having two different writers write two different parts can turn out terribly wrong. It’s also an example of how having two different artists can show off just how good the first […]

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So I guess there isn’t a Marvel Movie Premiere #2. I must have read about this adaptation of The Land That Time Forgot (I hate seeing ‘that’ used so poorly, typing it repeatedly is going to be torturous) about fifteen years ago, maybe more, undoubtedly in a Werewolf by Night or Monster of Frankenstein issue. […]

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