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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #220
America’s Got Powers #1 (of 6) — Writer: Jonathan Ross; Art: Bryan Hitch Ross is the former British talk-show host who’s a big comics geek, and has dabbled in writing them before (Turf, about Prohibition-era vampires, came out a year or two ago). Here, he’s snagged Bryan Hitch as artist, which helps his cause considerably. The comic itself is nakedly commercial: it’s a mashup of J. Michael Straczynski’s Rising Stars (radiation from a mysterious meteor causes a bunch of kids whose mothers are exposed to it to be born with super-powers), America’s Got Talent (there’s a reality show wherein the … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Tagged Alabaster, America's Got Powers, Avengers, Becky Cloonan, Bryan Hitch, Buffy, Conan, Crossed, Daredevil, Dave Gibbons, Fantastic Four, Fiona Staples, Journey into Mystery, Loki, Mark Millar, Saga, Secret, Shade, Spider-man, Thor, X-men
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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #218
Saga #1 — Writer: Brian K. Vaughan; Art: Fiona Staples Vaughan’s last extended series was Y: The Last Man, so he’s got a reputation to uphold, and this debut issue does so nicely: it’s a fantasy/Star Wars/Romeo and Juliet mashup, with all the sprawl its name implies — but this first issue focuses very tightly on just two characters, and the third one they produce. It’s very well done, and Staples brings enormous talent to the drawing: she’s just the kind of artist I admire, able to work with small human expressions and double-page city-destroying splashes (with giant turtles added!) … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Tagged Avengers, Becky Cloonan, Brian K. Vaughan, Brian Michael Bendis, Brian Wood, Buffy, Conan, Crossed, Fantastic Four, Fiona Staples, Garth Ennis, Journey into Mystery, Kieron Gillen, Powers, Saga, Shade, Wolverine, X-men
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The Latest and (Mostly) Greatest #42 by Dan!
Hoo boy! It’s a Saturday, so it’s game on with the reviews folks. This was an odd week with cancellations and new titles and more, so let’s do this! Adventure Time #1 Writer: Ryan North Artist: Shelli Paroline & Braden Lamb This. Book. Is. Awesome. An evil “bag of holding” starts trying to defeat Finn and Jake and everyone in adventure time, so it’s up to them to save the day. That doesn’t exactly work, even when they combine together to make Jake into a suit that Finn wears. It’s absolutely crazy. There’s captions at the bottom that put the … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, News and Events, Reviews
Tagged Avengers, Black Panther, Conan, Frankenstein, Powers, Punisher, Wolverine
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Fresh Eyes On Old Books #11 by Dan!
It’s a Sunday afternoon, so we all know what that means! Old-timey comics! Conan The Barbarian #8 from 1971 Oh the Bronze Age… A little less lighthearted than the Silver Age, and nowhere near as gritty as the present. So we get titles like Conan. You might remember the Schwarzenneger movie of the same name, but surprise(!)… there was a comic first. This issue of Conan is exactly what you’d expect it to be, a quest for treasure, an enemy that becomes a friend, and Conan having to run away from someone trying to capture him. Once you add in … Continue reading
Posted in DC, Marvel, Reviews, Silver Age
Tagged Bronze Age, Conan, Enemy Ace, Hero for Hire, Joe Kubert, Luke Cage, Powerman, Silver Age, WWII
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