Moon Knight: The Bottom
“Moon Knight: The Bottom is violent. Period. It’s a Moon Knight story based in the Doug Moench continuity and while Marc Spector, as Moon Knight didn’t really kill people, it seemed like everybody died. Until they started getting resurrected in Marc Spector: Moon Knight, every bad guy that he faced off with ended up getting
Hard to believe
…that we were just in New Orleans barely a month ago. From Phil West: If you’re still reading me, you’re probably depressed enough (and if you’re not, you’ve likely moved on from Katrina), but this just in from my brother’s friend, who is on National Guard duty at the Superdome. He’s run out of cigarettes,
Try Something Different: 8/31/05
Support GOOD Comics! A look at select comic books being released today, 8/31/05. Full shipping list available at ComicList. (Not all of these titles will actually arrive in all stores. If your LCBS offers a pre-ordering service, be sure to take advantage of it. If not, find another one, or try Khepri.com or MidtownComics.com) AIT/PLANETLAR
My Sanctum Sanctorum
Among other things, that’s a signed/numbered photo of the Oct. 9, 1977 fight between Graig Nettles and George Brett up on the wall, and a Nettles autographed baseball in the box on the lower shelf. The boxing glove is the runner-up trophy we got from the 1999 National Poetry Slam, which I hold in slightly
CBC Quickees: 8/24/05
Quick reviews of comics I read last week, rated 0 to 5 stars. Black Panther #7 (Marvel; $2.99)Um…damn, Hudlin is really making it hard to keep up my defense of his work here. On the heels of the his first arc’s hasty and inconclusive wrapup – he never really did get to the heart of
Buzzscope Reviews: 8/24/05
Here’s what I covered for Buzzscope this week. Tomorrow, I’ll have quickee reviews of everything else I read. Ant, Vol. 2 #1Ant is a sufficiently entertaining superhero comic book, admirably featuring a heroine of color without going out its way to hype that fact, and Mario Gully seems to have wisely discarded some of his
R. Kelly Has Lost…
his damn fool mind! What in the hell was that?!?! Chuck? Rufus? Cathy? Anybody…? WTF?!?! Meanwhile, back on Earth, Shakira? I felt like I was cheating watching that performance. H.O.T.T.
Who’s the writer?
I find it funny – though not the least bit surprising – that my wife, who won’t so much as let me read the papers she writes for school, has finally started an anonymous blog, and in the few posts she’s written so far, expresses more honesty and raw emotion than I have in my
INFO: CBC Update
The jury’s still out on CBC v2.0, but some recent developments have added a couple of unexpected twists to the plot, so this is sort of an update/brain-dump for future reference when real life isn’t quite so hectic. Development #1: Out of the blue, about a month ago, Erech Overaker asked me to contribute a