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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 #280
All-Star Western #34 — Writers: Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray; Art: Darwyn Cooke This is the last issue of this book, ending an eight-year run (70 issues of the pre-New 52 Jonah Hex immediately preceded it): an impressive accomplishment for a western book in today’s market. Part of that is attributable to Palmiotti and Gray’s steady, solid writing — most of their earlier stories were one-issue tales, with a good grasp of their surly, barely-heroic protagonist and his gruff charms, while later ones were marketing-savvy enough to take him to the 1800s Gotham City and even, for a while, to the … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Tagged All-new X-men, Avengers, Groo, Guardians of the Galaxy, Jonah Hex, Low, Mind Mgmt, Outcast, Pop, Saga, Silver Surfer, Sundowners, Superman, The Goon, Wayward
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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #275
Life With Archie #37 — Writer: Paul Kupperberg; Pencils: Fernando Ruiz, Pat & Tim Kennedy; Inks: Bob Smith, Gary Martin Afterlife With Archie #6 — Writer: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa; Art: Francesco Francavilla If you’d told comics fans a year ago that, in the future, for two weeks in a row, the top books would be… Archie comics, they’d have laughed you out of your local comics shop — and yet here we are: after last week’s “Death of…,” the company follows up this week with two worthy efforts. The first, Life of Archie #37, is the coda to the character’s “death”: Riverdale a year later, … Continue reading
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Tagged Afterlife With Archie, Archie, Batman, Daredevil, Groo vs. Conan, Loki, Ragnarok, Spider-man, Superman, Supreme, The Goon, Thor, Trees, Tuki, Velvet
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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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The Latest and (Mostly) Greatest #95 by Dan!
All right folks, it’s a lighter week so we won’t have a lot to talk about. But there’s still plenty of great stuff out there, so let’s do this! Daredevil #1 Writer: Mark Waid Artist: Chris Samnee Waid and Samnee ended their seminal run on Daredevil by revealing his identity and moving him to California. So now Waid and Samnee are back with an all-new location a possibly new set of characters and a lot of space to just roam. And roam they do. This issue acts as set-up (including a quick origin that is presented beautifully), Daredevil manages to … Continue reading
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Tagged Animal Man, Avengers, Batman, Daredevil, Iron Man, Superman, X-men
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