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Author Archives: Phil
Phil’s Reviews — Stuff I Bought #190
Jennifer Blood #1 (of 5?) — Writer: Garth Ennis; Art: Adriana Batista A suburban housewife is also the Punisher — that’s the premise of this mini-series, one that Ennis says, in an interview in the back, is meant to be less “bleak,” and lighter in tone, than a lot of his recent work. Of course, as an example of “lighter,” he mentions Hitman, which had a body count higher than most W.W.II movies — so, too, with this book, which features our heroine going to the docks at night (after spiking her husband’s and kids’ bedtime drinks with Valium) to blow … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Tagged Adriana Batista, Doom Patrol, Gail Simone, Garth Ennis, Hellblazer, Jason Aaron, Jennifer Blood, Jim Shooter, Jordan Crane, Jubilee, Kathryn Immonen, Magnus, Mighty Samson, Peter Milligan, Phil Noto, Secret Six, Simon Bisley, Spider-man, Uptight, Venom, Wolverine
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It Came From the Back Room #16
Standard recap: I’m slowly going through AABC’s one-million-plus back-issue room, restocking the boxes on the sales floor and pulling stuff to sell as discount/overstock/special items. I’m going through the alphabet backwards (don’t ask), and at my speed, this amounts to a two-year project. This week is brought to you by DC, who have the longest-running of all the “J” titles: Justice League of America This series started in 1960 (after a three-issue tryout in DC’s anthology title, The Brave and the Bold). The idea — get all of the company’s big guns into one team-up book — had proven successful with … Continue reading
Phil’s Reviews — Stuff I Bought #189
Knights of the Dinner Table #170 — Creators: Jolly Blackburn, Steve Johansson, David Kenzer and Brian Jelke I have nothing new to say about this comic, except that I still like it — but if you didn’t see Community this week, go to your cable box and its “On Demand” channel, and see it right now: the gang play Advanced D&D, with Abed as DM and Pierce as scorned, gleeful personification of evil (Chevy Chase does his best work of the series), and it’s… just perfect; you can tell the creators spent a lot of their high school time with twenty-sided … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Tagged Batman, Carl Barks, Chevy Chase, Community, D&D, Hellboy, Interlac, Iron Man, John Severin, keith Giffen, Larocca, Legion of Super-Heroes, Matt Fraction, Mignola, Neal Adams, Paul Levitz, Uncle Scrooge, Witchfinder
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It Came From the Back Room #15
Standard recap: I’m slowly going through AABC’s one-million-plus back-issue room, restocking the boxes on the sales floor and pulling stuff to sell as discount/overstock/special items. I’m going through the alphabet backwards (don’t ask), and at my speed, this amounts to a two-year project. This week is brought to you by the letter “J”: Judge Dredd Joe Dredd, of Mega-City One, is a futuristic cop and a product of Great Britain, having first appeared in the British sf magazine 2000 A.D. in the late ’70s. Imagine a police force made up entirely of Clint Eastwood Dirty Harrys, all with the authority … Continue reading
Phil’s Reviews — Stuff I Bought #188
Iron Man #500 — Writer: Matt Fraction; Art: Salvador Larroca and Frank D’Armata; Kano; Nathan Fox and Javier Rodriguez; Carmine Di Giandomenico and Matthew Wilson One of those start-the-original-numbering-over anniversary issues, complete with a five-page gallery of all 500 covers. Fraction proved with last year’s Iron Man Annual that’s he’s good at these big-event comics, and he doesn’t disappoint here, providing a 56-page story that guest-stars Spider-Man and roams from the present to the year 2052 (where the Mandarin, who was handled so well by Fraction in that annual, has taken over the world) and back; the varying time periods … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Tagged Alex Maleev, Bendis, Buffy, Camuncoli, Deadpool, Garth Ennis, Hellblazer, Iron Man, Jason Aaron, Joss Whedon, Kyle Baker, Lapham, Mandarin, Matt Fraction, Peter Milligan, Scarlet, Simon Bisley, The Boys, Wolverine
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