You’re about to see me go on a “Blackest Night” binge for a few posts — which looking back isn’t all that out of character for this review series thus far. Four out of six books I picked up this week had “Blackest Night” in their titles (the other two were Dark Horse books). I … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #34: ‘Blackest Night’ #4
• I’m becoming increasingly underwhelmed with both Windows Vista (which in the fourth week now of Microsoft customer service back-and-forths still won’t install its security updates) and now Apple, which sounds like it wants to advertise to me through an already pricey piece of software, given this patent Apple is seeking. • Here’s what “The … Read moreLink Sausage: 10/27/2009
For such a behemoth piece of work, Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli was a completely engrossing read from beginning to end — and despite the end, which I’ll get to later. As a unified piece of work, it’s an astounding accomplishment, and it takes graphic representation in narrative forms to an entirely new level beyond … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #33: ‘Asterios Polyp’
Normally I’m impervious to these superhero events, but I guess all you have to do is look at the percentage of comics thus far that have turned out to be Blackest Night tie-ins on here. Page by page, namely in the Arisia Rrab sequence, the art did stutter a bit, but as a whole, this … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #32: ‘Green Lantern Corps’ #41
This book still has me after two issues. It became distinctly more The Road in this outing and looks like it may verge way more into post-apocalyptic Peter Pan & The Lost Boys territory based on what’s transpired thus far. I think the biggest danger right now is that it could drift into becoming just … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #31: ‘Sweet Tooth’ #2
• Most everyone I used to work with at Wizard has some sort of ongoing sketchbook theme that they update at conventions. Rick has his Hunter S. Thompson book. Sean has his David Bowie book. Dave has his Lockjaw book. I’ve even got my neglected Matter Eater Lad book. Well, my pal Rickey Purdin has … Read moreLink Sausage: 10/13/2009
There was a lot of pressure on this collection, seeing as how Adrian Tomine’s Optic Nerve and Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s New X-Men were solely responsible for getting me to read comics again after a half decade hiatus. This deluxe edition from Drawn & Quarterly is a remarkable piece of packaging, too, as it … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #30: ’32 Stories’
There is so much realism being pumped into mainstream comics artwork these days to get books to look like action movies that this book felt like a summer trip to the swimming pool. There are so many great creators and points I want to hit in an overview of what’s going on here, I’ll have … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #29: ‘Strange Tales’ #1
To be fair, I had every expectation going into this new launch that it was going to be an ultra-violent action story made to somehow be a vehicle for an anti-hero who’s nowhere near as geeky as Peter Parker but manages to become attached to something exactly like Spider-Man’s symbiote costume and then end up … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #28: ‘Haunt’ #1
Well, the shell game with the Red Hood’s identity finally concluded in rather lackluster fashion in this issue, which gets the lowest marks from yet. I didn’t think Philip Tan’s artwork was nearly as detrimental to the story as Brian Cronin did, but I did feel like the payoff in the story itself was underneath … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #27: ‘Batman & Robin’ #5