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
Oh boy. So you know all of that pulpy action and B-movie-style genre action Ed Brubaker got the entire Iron Fist institution to imbibe over at Marvel over the last few years? I’m happy to say that seems to have flooded out of the pages of Iron Fist and into this mini-anthology of Shang-Chi stories, … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #26: ‘Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu One-Shot’
• This Sesame Street parody of Mad Men that Kiel Phegley posted made me wonder how many of the puppet skits on the show I never fully comprehended growing up, given my relative media isolation at the time. Also, they actually call him Mr. Draper and not some knockoff name. Should I not be surprised … Read moreLink Sausage: 10/05/2009
First of all, how crazy is it that the last Green Lantern #46 had Mongul in it as well during “Reign of the Supermen!”? Funny how that stuff happens. I was wondering when the story was going to get back to Mongul, now that he’d fashioned those gigantic pieces of hate bling for himself from … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #25: ‘Green Lantern’ #46
Hans Rickheit has always been an enigmatic authorial figure for me — I fittingly discovered him at MoCCA a few years ago while he was absent from his table, but whoever was manning it facilitated the sale of a couple volumes of his Chrome Fetus minicomics to me. His new graphic novel from Fantagraphics is … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #24: ‘The Squirrel Machine’
This is the kind of opening sequence I read B.P.R.D. books for. I mentioned in my Bayou review that Gabriel Bá does some of the most playfully terrifying work in these books that I’ve ever scene, and B.P.R.D.: 1947 #3 is a perfect example of those skills at work. One of the really successful visual … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #23: ‘B.P.R.D.: 1947’ #3
• This mash-up remix of Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking is catchy and makes you wonder about the possibilities and limits associated with space travel. • I wasn’t aware of most of these picks on a list of the most controversial magazine covers of all time — particularly that zombie-armed Sarah Michelle Gellar Photoshop disaster … Read moreLink Sausage: 9/28/2009
Here’s a story I began reading more than a year ago and was initially fond of, but as is often the case with ZudaComics.com and my consistently under-performing home Internet speed thanks to AT&T, convenience drove me away until my pal Rickey Purdin dropped me a hard copy. I really love a lot of the … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #22: ‘Bayou’ Vol. 1
“Are all black holes this condescending?” –Negative Man By the time I picked up the second issue of Keith Giffen and Matthew Clark’s Doom Patrol at the shop, issue #1 was sold out, and I haven’t managed to locate one quite yet. This was obviously a little frustrating, but a few factors warmed me up … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #21: ‘Doom Patrol’ #2
Here’s a case where I actually psyched myself out too much expecting a disaster and walking of the read pleasantly surprised. Some ominous tweets and blog entries over the last week had me all ready to mourn Grant Morrison’s falloff in Batman and Robin following Phillip Tan’s appearance and Frank Quitely’s temporary exit. Granted, Tan’s … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #20: ‘Batman and Robin’ #4