May 2011
6 posts
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Smallville Finale
I only started watching the show this season, so I realize I’m not going to get the full impact here. Still, aside from not really having a feel for Lex Luthor, I don’t think I missed too much or was in any way lost. I’ve enjoyed the series, though I think the season didn’t completely fire on all cylinders because they only advanced the Darkseid storyline every now and...
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Flashpoint #1 (and Flash #11 & 12)
Writer - Geoff Johns
Artist - Andy Kubert (Scott Kolins and Francis Manapul on Flash #11 & 12)
Publisher - DC Comics. $3.99 USD.
I try to be fair. I cop to not being a Geoff Johns fan, but I like the Flash and I like alternate reality stories, so I thought I’d give Flashpoint a try. And to be fair, I figured I’d read a couple issues of The Flash, since it leads into the story. So here we...
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Action Comics #900
Writers - Paul Cornell, Various
Artists - Pete Woods, Gary Frank, Various
Publisher - DC Comics $4.99 USD
Is “pretty good” really good enough for the longest-running superhero title’s 900th issue? I guess we’ll have to take what we’re served. Cornell and Woods wrap up the Lex Luthor “Black Ring” storyline with Lex gaining ultimate power but losing it...
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B.P.R.D. - Plague of Frogs, Vol. 1
Writers - Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Tom Sniegoski, Geoff Johns, Brian Augustyn, Various
Artists - Guy Davis, Ryan Sook, Matt Smith, Cameron Stewart, Michael Avon Oeming, Various
Publisher - Dark Horse Books. $34.99 USD
For those of you for whom this is the first exposure to these comics—I’m envious. Not for you the worry that Hellboy’s supporting cast would falter on their own. Not for you...
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Dan Nadel Interviews Toth Authors
Very nice, if brief, interview by TCJ’s Dan Nadel with Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell, author of the new biography, Alex Toth: Genius, Isolated, the first of a three-part bio from IDW. I’ve ordered the book and can’t wait to get it and dig in. Meanwhile, thoughtful comments from Mullaney and Canwell, and I liked that there’s a bit of intellectual tension between them and...
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Eye-Rolly Terror
Kevin Melrose, posing the tough question only someone paid to gin up comics “news” every day would ask the day after OBL is killed: How does this affect Frank Miller’s most ludicrous project yet?. Good thing he got this up right away, while all the quotes are still old and out of context. I like Melrose and Robot6, but are there any pieces that ever go unposted for being too thin...