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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #281
So, the big news this week is that DC, who had so much success with their 3D cover promotion last September, is doing it again this year, with a few twists. First, the covers are lenticular instead of 3D; that means, while they appear to have depth like the 3D covers, they actually have two scenes embedded in them, and if you tilt the cover back and forth you can toggle between them — so, for example, on the Green Arrow cover, one scene just shows Oliver Queen’s tombstone, but when you look from another angle his ghostly image appears … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Tagged Alice Cooper, Aquaman, Batman, Batwing, Cloaks, DC lenticular covers, Doctor Mirage, Earth 2, Ex-Con, Future's End, Grayson, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Grendel, Phantom Stranger, Superman, Swamp Thing, The Names, Wolverine
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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #224
Popeye #2 (of 4) — Writer: Roger Langridge; Art: Ken Wheaton and Tom Neely I raved about the first issue of this, and the second is just as good, although on a smaller scale — instead of an ocean quest and the Sea Hag, we get one of those neighborhood domestic comedies that Segar was so good at, with Popeye dealing with a rival for Olive’s affections (in one of the Easter eggs Langridge has sprinkled throughout the book, it turns out to be Willie Wormwood, the “actor” who played the Snidely Whiplash-like bad guys in Segar’s early, pre-Popeye versions of Thimble … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Tagged Avengers, Defenders, Earth 2, grant Morrison, Green Lantern, Iron Man, iZombie, Popeye, Roger Langridge, Superman, Ultimate Spider-man, X-men
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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #222
Earth 2 #1 — Writer: James Robinson; Pencils: Nicola Scott; Inks: Trevor Scott Worlds’ Finest #1 — Writer: Paul Levitz; Pencils: George Perez; Inks: Scott Koblish These books are inter-related, with Earth 2 best read first; as its name implies, it’s setting up the alternate DC Earth that contains a modern-day version of the Justice Society. The first issue, though, focuses on death instead of birth: it shows a world where the only super-heroes who exist are Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman — plus a Supergirl, and a Robin who’s Batman’s daughter. That turns out not to be enough to … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Tagged Action Comics, Avengers, Daredevil, Earth 2, Garfield, Nick Fury, Skeleton Key, World's Finest, X-men
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