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Tag Archives: Dark Horse Presents
Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #305
The Multiversity: The Mastermen #1 — Writer: Grant Morrison; Pencils: Jim Lee; Inks: Scott Williams, Sandra Hope, Mark Irwin and Jonathan Glapion; Colors: Alex Sinclair and Jeremy Cox Silk #1 — Writer: Robbie Thompson; Art: Stacy Lee; Colors: Ian Herring Ei8ht #1 — Story: Rafael Albuquerque and Mike Johnson; Script: Mike Johnson; Art/Colors: Rafael Albuquerque Mandrake the Magician #1 — Writer: Roger Langridge; Art/Colors: Jeremy Treece A quartet of first issues for this week: Multiversity: Mastermen is the best (even if technically it’s, like, issue #7 of Morrison’s 52-universe-spanning crossover series), because (a) Jim Lee art, (b) the opening splash … Continue reading
Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #279
Not a bad week — two hotly-anticipated first issues, plus still-early, you-can-still-get-the-whole-set editions of some really good titles, and assorted other cool stuff too. Let’s look….: Multiversity #1 — Writer: Grant Morrison; Pencils: Ivan Reis; Inks: Joe Prado Morrison first announced this years ago, right after Infinite Crisis, so it’s had a long gestation; as the title suggests, it uses the 52 universes (universi?) of the New-52 cosmos as its playground, as a group of heroes gather to try to rescue Nix Uotan, the last Monitor, and protect the multiverse from encroaching evil. There are lots of echoes of earlier … Continue reading
Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #267
Since there are a fair number of books this week, let’s be different and break them down by company…. Deadly Class #1 — Writer: Rick Remender; Art: Wes Craig Pretty Deadly #4 — Writer: Kelly Sue Deconnick; Art: Emma Rios Bad Dog #6 (of 6) — Writer: Joe Casey; Art: Diego Greco Image’s business model — for a set administrative fee, they provide a publishing platform for creators, who retain all rights to their work — has attracted a number of excellent writers and artists over the last few years, and led to a sprawling, diverse group of titles. Cases … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Tagged All-new X-men, Avengers, Bad Dog, Batman, Black Widow, Captain America, Dark Horse Presents, Deadly Class, Elfquest, FF, Hawkeye, Iron Man, Justice League, Mind Mgmt, Pretty Deadly, Unwritten, Wolverine
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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #265
Sergio Aragones Funnies #11 — Creator: Sergio Aragones Aragones had some back problems earlier this year, and this book stopped coming out, but they’ve been fixed and he’s returned, and that’s welcome news: he’s one of our greatest living cartoonists. People who think of him only as the guy who does the marginal gags in Mad might be surprised at just how good a storyteller he is, but a comic like this lets him stretch out and show his versatility: there’s a memoir about getting Mad editor William Gaines a present, a horror story with a neat twist, a “war” … Continue reading
Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #252
Sergio Aragones Funnies #8 — Creator: See if you can figure it out…. Aragones had back problems and needed surgery a couple of months ago, so it’s been a while since an issue of this comic came out. This new one is a treat — there’s the usual mix of finely-detailed, just-perfect drawings: a one-page intro talking about the hospital stay, a couple of one-page gags, a couple of intricate puzzle pages, an eight-page western (people forget that Aragones created and wrote DC’s Bat Lash, and knows his way around the history of the Old West; this tale starts out about … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Tagged Age of Ultron, Avengers, Brother Lono, Dark Horse Presents, Extinction Parade, Fantastic Four, Hulk, Richard Corben, Sergio Aragones
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