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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #303
The Goon: Once Upon a Hard Time #1 (of 4) — Writer/Artist: Eric Powell Powell toggles between two modes for this title: edgy, Harvey Kurtzman-like slapstick, and grim, dark-as-night horror. The grim, in ascendance during the last mini-series, reaches full force here, as a drunken, grieving and dangerous Goon kills a couple of people (who deserve it), rips an arm off one of his friends (who doesn’t, although he has a couple of extra to spare), and spirals down into a revengeful, suicidal haze. Depressing as hell, but very very well done, with Powell’s art and script telling an efficient, … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Tagged Angela, Annihilator, Ant-Man, Avengers, Black Vortex, Cluster, Hawkeye, Hellboy, Lady Killer, Miracleman, Nameless, Postal, Rat God, Saga, Squirrel Girl, Star Wars, Stray Bullets, Superman, The Goon, United States of Murder Inc., Velvet, Wytches
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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #276
Fatale #24 (of 24) — Writer: Ed Brubaker; Art: Sean Phillips Hawkeye #19 — Writer: Matt Fraction; Art: David Aja Sandman: Overture #3 (of 6) — Writer: Neil Gaiman; Art: J. H. Williams III Outcast #2 — Writer: Robert Kirkman; Art: Paul Azaceta These first four books are linked simply because they’re all good stories from top creative teams, and representative of the best that weekly serial comics have to offer. Fatale is the last issue, and a definite, and satisfying, conclusion to the story; Brubaker and Phillips have been offering effective crime/noir books for a decade now, since Sleeper, … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Tagged Avengers, Bodies, Fatale, Guardians of the Galaxy, Hawkeye, Justice League, Low, Mind Mgmt, Outcast, Sandman, The Fuse, Vertigo Quarterly, X-men
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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #261
Beasts of Burden: Hunters and Gatherers #1 (of 1) — Writer: Evan Dorkin; Art: Jill Thompson This title, about a group of dogs and cats who fight supernatural menaces to their small town, doesn’t come out very often — once or twice a year if we’re lucky — but it’s always worth the wait, and always ends up on the top of my list. Dorkin is mostly known for his humor (Bill and Ted, back in the day, and Milk and Cheese and Dork, plus the about-to-be released Eltingville Club, a savage-but-loving takedown of comics fans which no one who’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Astro City, Batman, Beasts of Burden, Captain Marvel, Hawkeye, Magnus, Minimum Wage, Secret Avengers, Stray Bullets, The Fox
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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #260
Sergio Aragones Funnies #12 — Writer/Artist: Duh…. Aragones says in the introduction that this is the last issue of this title from Bongo, but that it will continue at another publisher soon. Good, because we can’t afford to lose his meticulous, well-composed, funny pen — look at that cover (click on it for a larger version)! As always, the best thing about having his own comic is that he gets to stretch out from the one-panel and one-page Mad magazine gags he’s famous for; here, there’s an eight-page story of a loser trying to dress up and act like a … Continue reading