REVIEW: Lullaby: Wisdom Seeker #2
All-ages fantasy stories are apparently the new zombies, and Alias seems to be trying to corner the market, making a splash with a trio of mini-series — Lullaby; Lions, Tigers and Bears; The Imaginaries — squarely targeted at the sub-genre. Cleverly promoted with the high-concept blurb “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen meets Shrek,” creator/artist Hector Sevilla
REVIEW: Batgirl #63
Post-“War Games”, writer Andersen Gabrych is slowly but surely turning Batgirl into the most satisfying Bat-book not named Gotham Central. Freed from the angst-ridden constraints of patrolling the streets of Gotham City in Batman’s shadow — and to a lesser degree, Oracle’s — Batgirl is on her own, relocating to the mean streets of Blüdhaven
Review: Red Sonja #0
Damn Kurt Busiek and his unexpectedly enjoyable revitalization of Conan! If not for him, I wouldn’t have taken a chance on Red Sonja, a comic book I was pretty sure I wouldn’t like from the minute I first saw its Greg Land cover. The easy thing would be to simply say you get what you
REVIEW: The Losers #23
Most mainstream comic books these days ride a rickety wooden roller coaster throughout their ever-shortening life spans, offering an uneven mix of definitive and forgettable story arcs before inevitably being rebooted by some flavor-of-the-month talent in the kind of short-term thinking that brought down corporations like Enron and Worldcom. Then there are comic books like
REVIEW: 15 Minutes #3
“In the future, everybody will be world famous for 15 minutes.” In this era of 24-hour news channels and Reality TV, Andy Warhol’s prophetic quote has practically come true. Why should superheroes be any different? That’s the angle Bob Elinskas comes from with 15 Minutes, an appealing combination of Troy Hickman’s Eisner-nominated Common Grounds and
Comment: Living the Dream…Vicariously
While much of the ever-expanding Comics Blogiverse is made up of wannabe writers – Grant Morrison sycophants praising his every bowel movement, and frustrated hacks full of shallow anti-Marvel/DC snark being the two largest demographics – there’s another, much more interesting subculture to be found: aspiring comics retailers. As much as I’d love to one
ménage à trois: 4/20/05
[So many comics, so few good ones, only three make the cut each week. Quickie-style reviews, for better, or worse: 1 Minute=bad, 10 Minutes=good. Connections, if any at all, may be forced purely for the experience.] It figures. A week after I change things up and decide to no longer require representatives of the Big
Review: Top Shelf Roundup
A month or so ago, Top Shelf Productions was running a great sale on some of their backlist, with an assortment of graphic novels and comix for $1 and $3. [EDIT: The sale is apparently still on, here.] A mixed bag of titles, the vast majority of which I’d never heard of, I decided to
ménage à trois: 4/13/05
[One Marvel, one DC, both published the previous Wednesday, plus a random indie from whenever I feel like it, each reviewed quickie-style: 1 Minute=bad, 10 Minutes=good. Connections, if any at all, may be forced purely for the experience.] As several current story arcs come to their drawn-out conclusions over the next couple of months, I’ll
ménage à trois: 4/6/05
[One Marvel, one DC, both published the previous Wednesday, plus a random indie from whenever I feel like it, each reviewed quickie-style: 1 Minute=bad, 10 Minutes=good. Connections, if any at all, may be forced purely for the experience.] At this point, distracted by the passage of time, the filing of a pile of back issues