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Tag Archives: The Wicked and the Divine
Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #288
The Wicked and the Divine #5 — Writer: Kieron Gillen; Art: Jamie McKelvie; Colors: Matthew Wilson This is a sharp-looking book — you could cut yourself on McKelvie’s precise, thin lines — and the theme’s about death and art, so it can be grim and gory (particularly so in one scene in this issue), but there’s also a warmth in both the words and the pictures, and a passionate humanity at its core that makes everything work. This issue concludes the first arc, and the last scene (which I assume will also be the end of the first trade) is … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Tagged Arkham Manor, Avengers, Axis, Memetic, Secret Avengers, She-Hulk, Spider-man, Starlight, Stray Bullets: Killers, Stumptown, Superman, The Just, The Wicked and the Divine
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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #274
Another week with tons of first issues — there are eleven reviewed here, and that wasn’t even all of them — but first let’s start with a book that’s more a last issue than a first: Life With Archie #36 — Writer: Paul Kupperberg; Pencils: Pat and Tim Kennedy; Inks: Jim Amash This is the comic where Archie “dies.” Now, as readers of this website, you’ll no doubt find it easier than civilians to grasp that Life With Archie is set in the future, and has been exploring what happens to the Riverdale gang after high school (in one timeline, Archie … Continue reading
Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #270
The Wicked and the Divine #1 — Writer: Kieron Gillen; Art: Jamie McKelvie Iron Man #28 — Writer: Kieron Gillen; Pencils: Joe Bennett, Cliff Richards and Derlis Santacruz; Inks: Scott Hanna and Rick Magyar Gillen’s one of the better writers in comics right now, and his first big splash was Phonogram — especially the second volume, a multiple-perspective tale of one night in a dance hall, and the magical effects of the music played there on its listeners. That was a collaboration with McKelvie, too, and the team went on to create one of last year’s best mainstream series, Young Avengers; … Continue reading
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Tagged Daredevil, Doodle Jump, Fables, Fatale, Iron Man, Minimum Wage, MPH, Original Sin, Sex Criminals, Silver Surfer, The Wicked and the Divine, Thomas Alsop, X-men
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