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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #308
The Surface #1 — Writer: Ales Kot; Art: Langdon Foss; Colors: Jordie Bellaire Quite a few first issues again this week, with an interesting mix of sf, fantasy adventure and comedy. The Surface is sf, set in a near-future where everyone’s high-tech enough that the fad is “livelogging,” where you wear cameras and mics 24/7, and your whole life gets downloaded — but not everyone is satisfied absorbing all that digital data, and there’s another reality trying to break through…. Ales tried something similar to this with last year’s Change, although this new series seems a lot more linear, and … Continue reading
Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #304
Love and Rockets: New Stories #7 — Creators: Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez It’s hard to describe just how vital Love and Rockets and the Hernandez brothers were to comics in the ’80s: the magazine lasted for 50 issues over 14 years, from 1982 to 1996, and for a long span every new installment was a leap forward: you could just see them growing in confidence and ability, until both Gilbert’s Palomar stories (set in a Mexican village, with a large cast of characters but focusing mostly on the mayor, Luba, and her many daughters and lovers) and Jaime’s Locas ones … Continue reading
Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #302
The Multiversity Guidebook #1 (of 1) — Writer: Grant Morrison; Artists: Marcus To and Paulo Siqueira; Colors: Dave McCaig and Hi-Fi This is expensive ($7.99) but also awesome — more than just a guidebook, it’s a 34-page story spotlighting the Batman: L’il Gotham characters (who turn out to be from Earth-42), plus Kamandi (Earth-51), whose story summarizes the history of alternate Earths in the DC Universe since “Flash of Two Worlds,” plus the Batman from the Atomic Knights timeline (Earth-17), plus the Legion of Sivanas and other tie-ins to the other “Multiversity” books Morrison has been producing; these all make … Continue reading
Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #297
Superman #37 — Writer: Geoff Johns; Pencils: John Romita Jr.; Inks: Klaus Janson; Colors: Laura Martin Harley Quinn #13 — Writers: Amanda Connor and Jimmy Palmiotti; Art: Chad Hardin; Colors: Alex Sinclair Superman/Wonder Woman #14 — Writer: Peter Tomasi; Pencils: Doug Mahnke; Inks: Four Different Guys; Colors: Tomeu Morey Sinestro #8 — Writer: Cullen Bunn; Pencils: Martin Cocollo; Inks: Scott Hanna; Colors: Jason Wright The Flash #37 — Writers: Robert Venditti and Van Jensen; Pencils: Brett Booth; Inks: Norm Rapmund; Colors: Andrew Dalhouse Aquaman #37 — Writer: Jeff Parker; Pencils: Paul Pelletier; Inks: Sean Parsons; Colors: Rain Beredo He-Man: The … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Tagged Axis, Daredevil, Darwyn Cooke, Gotham By Midnight, Graveyard Shift, Green Lantern, Loki, Mind Mgmt, Outcast, Robin Rises, Secret Avengers, She-Hulk, They're Not Like Us, X-men
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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #295
Lots of good comics this week, so let’s break them down by company — starting with Image, who’s offered literally dozens of cool debuts this year, making themselves the destination publisher for creators who want to stretch their storytelling skills with minimum editorial interference, and maximum retention of the rights to their work: Bitch Planet #1 — Writer: Kelly Sue Deconnick; Art: Valentine de Landro; Colors: Cris Peter Deconnick’s been having a breakout 2014 — her Pretty Deadly, a hallucinatory occult Western, was great, and she’s been making Captain Marvel a smart, galaxy-spanning romp for Marvel. Here, she enters creator-owned … Continue reading
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Tagged Afterlife With Archie, Amazing Spider-man, Astro City, Avengers, Axis, Batgirl, Bitch Planet, Darwyn Cooke, East of West, Guardians of the Galaxy, Harley Quinn, Savage Dragon, Sex Criminals, Southern Bastards, Supreme Blue Rose, The Goon, Thor, X-men
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