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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #283
Week three of DC’s moving-cover extravaganza brings ten more comics; this week, you don’t even have to click on the covers to see them move (assuming I embedded them correctly…)! Justice League #1 — Writer: Jeff Lemire; Art: Jed Dougherty This is the conclusion to a two-parter started over in Justice League United last week, wherein a super-villain prison on Mars (wardened by the Martian Manhunter) has a breakout, courtesy of a very powerful and crazy Captain Atom, and the Futures End version of the Justice League (plus a couple of members of the Legion of Super-Heroes) have to fight … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Tagged Batman, Batwoman, Deadly Class, Future's End, Green Lantern, Justice League, Multiversity, Red Hood, Satellite Sam, Shadow, Spider-man, Supreme, Teen Titans, Trees, Wicked and the Divine, Wonder Woman, X-men
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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 #271
Let’s try looking at all the non-mainstream-superhero stuff first this week, and then the DC and Marvel offerings: Outcast #1 — Writer: Robert Kirkman; Art: Paul Azaceta Kirkman’s new monthly comic series got a nice writeup in Tuesday’s USA Today; that’s what originating a number-one cable hit like The Walking Dead will do for you. It’s an Exorcist riff, about a guy who dealt with demonic possession as a kid (him? His mother? Much later, his wife? It’s only the first issue, so the backstory isn’t clear yet), and now, a damaged adult, reluctantly helps others with similar problems. Kirkman’s skill at … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Tagged Avengers, Batman, Deadly Class, Guardians of the Galaxy, Gumball, Hulk, Justice League, Mind Mgmt, Ms. Marvel, Outcast, Rachel Rising, Saga, Spider-man, Stray Bullets, Superman, The Goon, Trees
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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #267
The Shadow: Midnight in Moscow #1 (of 6) — Writer/Artist: Howard Chaykin The Shadow’s one of those classic characters who attracts creators — Denny O’Neil and Michael Kaluta in the ’70s, and Chaykin himself in the ’80s — who see him as an effective springboard for slam-bang pulp adventure. This story’s set in 1949, a period whose fashions and people Chaykin has always loved to draw (Satellite Sam, his other current work, is set the same era — and written by Matt Fraction, who knows full well how to keep his artists happy), and watching him set up his plot, craft … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Tagged Batman Eternal, Daredevil, Forever Evil, Future's End, Justice League, MPH, Original Sin, Saga, Spider-man, The Shadow, Velvet, X-men
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The Latest and (Mostly) Greatest #97 by Dan!
All right folks, we’re back in action. Not a bad week for comics, but only a few that really stood out. Let’s do this! Elektra #1 Writer: W. Haden Blackman Artist: Mike Del Mundo The first few pages of this issue threw me off. It was a fair amount of talking, reminding the reader about just who Elektra was and what had come before. The art style is pretty jarring. But once you actually focus and see that every panel of every page is telling a story, you realize that this book is shockingly well put together. In a similar … Continue reading