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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #308
The Surface #1 — Writer: Ales Kot; Art: Langdon Foss; Colors: Jordie Bellaire Quite a few first issues again this week, with an interesting mix of sf, fantasy adventure and comedy. The Surface is sf, set in a near-future where everyone’s high-tech enough that the fad is “livelogging,” where you wear cameras and mics 24/7, and your whole life gets downloaded — but not everyone is satisfied absorbing all that digital data, and there’s another reality trying to break through…. Ales tried something similar to this with last year’s Change, although this new series seems a lot more linear, and … Continue reading
Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #304
Love and Rockets: New Stories #7 — Creators: Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez It’s hard to describe just how vital Love and Rockets and the Hernandez brothers were to comics in the ’80s: the magazine lasted for 50 issues over 14 years, from 1982 to 1996, and for a long span every new installment was a leap forward: you could just see them growing in confidence and ability, until both Gilbert’s Palomar stories (set in a Mexican village, with a large cast of characters but focusing mostly on the mayor, Luba, and her many daughters and lovers) and Jaime’s Locas ones … Continue reading
Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #300
We should probably note a couple of anniversaries this week: as you can see, this is my 300th “Stuff I Bought” review post; the first came out the week of January 5, 2007, which was when the AABC blog began — so that’s an eight-year anniversary for it, too. That very first review is no longer on the site (it had some kind of coding problem that was screwing things up, if I remember correctly, and had to be erased), but there’s a link to the second week’s reviews here. If you’re wondering why it’s the 300th review but I’m … Continue reading
Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #295
Lots of good comics this week, so let’s break them down by company — starting with Image, who’s offered literally dozens of cool debuts this year, making themselves the destination publisher for creators who want to stretch their storytelling skills with minimum editorial interference, and maximum retention of the rights to their work: Bitch Planet #1 — Writer: Kelly Sue Deconnick; Art: Valentine de Landro; Colors: Cris Peter Deconnick’s been having a breakout 2014 — her Pretty Deadly, a hallucinatory occult Western, was great, and she’s been making Captain Marvel a smart, galaxy-spanning romp for Marvel. Here, she enters creator-owned … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Tagged Afterlife With Archie, Amazing Spider-man, Astro City, Avengers, Axis, Batgirl, Bitch Planet, Darwyn Cooke, East of West, Guardians of the Galaxy, Harley Quinn, Savage Dragon, Sex Criminals, Southern Bastards, Supreme Blue Rose, The Goon, Thor, X-men
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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #292
Wonder Woman #36 — Writer: Meredith Finch; Pencils: David Finch; Inks: Richard Friend; Colors: Sonia Oback Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman #4 — (First Story) Creator: Gilbert Hernandez; Colors: John Rauch; (Second Story) Writer: Rob Williams; Art: Tom Lyle; Colors: Wendy Broome; (Third Story) Writer: Nick Kleid; Art: Dean Haspiel; Colors: Allen Passalaqua Two Wonder Woman books — the regular comic features the debut of a new husband-and-wife creative team, the Finches. It’s OK, although if you liked the previous version you might not be too thrilled; unlike Azzarello/Chiang’s quirky, angular work, this is decidedly mainstream, and looks a lot … Continue reading
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Tagged Annihilator, Astro City, Avengers, Axis, Daredevil, Deadly Class, Epochalypse, Fables, Guardians of the Galaxy, Intersect, Justice League, Loki, Lumberjanes, Multiversity, Powers, Spider-Woman, Uncanny x-men, Wonder Woman
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