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Reviews
It Came From the Back Room #17
Dwayne McDuffie died last week, on February 21. He was a co-founder of Milestone Comics, and animation producer of Static Shock, Justice League Unlimited and Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, but in addition he was an admirable writer of comic books. This week, instead of the usual back-room letter-J stuff, I pulled some of his best work for the cover-price racks. Damage Control McDuffie was working as an assistant editor at Marvel in the late ’80s when he came up with this concept: a comic focusing on the guys who clean up after superhero fights, repairing all the damage, sweeping up the … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Tagged Ben 10, Damage Control, Deathlok, Dwayne McDuffie, Ernie Colon, Fantastic Four, Hardware, Icon, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, Kyle Baker, Milestone, Static, Static Shock
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Fresh Eyes on Old Books #17 by Dan!
It’s Sunday folks, so it’s time for more of those reviews you love to read! Let’s do this! Avengers #100 from 1972 It’s an anniversary issue, and they go with a one-shot story with style. Everybody on the cover shows up and some others make appearances as well. It’s a pretty ridiculous issue, with Roy Thomas cramming as many people and backstory and fighting in it as humanly possible. It was a fun read, with Thomas giving all the characters a distinct voice. Barry Windsor-Smith draws the hell out of it. In this story, all the Avengers (current and former) … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940's, Alfred, Avengers, Barry Windsor-Smith, Batman, Black Knight, Captain America, Enchantress, Golden Age, Joker, Robin, Roy Thomas
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The Latest and Mostly Greatest #17 by Dan!
I’m writing these on a Friday, whoa! Stuff on time! Let’s do this! My Top 5 (The 5 Best Comics of the Week) Amazing Spider-Man #655 Writer: Dan Slott Artist: Marcos Martin Yup, I’m on the bandwagon for this issue. It’s been going around the “internets” (as dear Dubya once said) that this is some big special fantastic issue, and holy crap it is. Look, all you need to know is that Dan Slott really loves writing Spider-Man and Marcos Martin draws the hell out of it. With the recent death of J. Jonah Jameson’s wife, this is a first … Continue reading
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Tagged Action Comics, Amazing Spiderman, Astonishing X-men, Avengers, Batman, Bucky, Captain America, Crossed, Deadpool, Detective Comics, Echo, Ed Brubaker, Fantastic Four, Frank Miller, Iron Man, Iron Man 2.0, J. Jonah Jameson, Power Girl, Punisher, Secret Avengers, Shang-Chi, Strange Tales, Superman, Teen Titans, Terry Moore, The Watcher, X-men, X-Men Legacy
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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
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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
