ménage à trois: 12/29/04
[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.] The Big Two ended 2004 with a so-so week, the edge going to DC thanks to the
Review: Warlock #1-4
Like many of Marvel’s b-list Stan Lee/Jack Kirby creations, Adam Warlock has remained something of an enigma – a putative fan favorite that has never been able to sustain a solo title. An interesting character in search of a re-interpretation that unlocks its true potential. While this new spin by Greg Pak and Charlie Adlard
ménage à trois: 12/22/04
[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.] Not counting their Vertigo and Wildstorm imprints – for whom The Losers and Sleeper ably represented –
Review: Secret Skull #1-4
Steve Niles’ Secret Skull mini-series starts off strong, jumping from a quick dream sequence featuring a cemetery zombie attack in broad daylight to a Batman-like vigilante in a skull mask tracking a gang of thugs through the night, one of whom it somehow knows will kill an innocent girl the next day. Except he won’t
ménage à trois: 12/15/04
[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.] “The best laid plans…” sometimes go awry, and in this case, it’s Marvel’s fault as I wasn’t
Review: Worldwatch #3
With Marvel not publishing a single thing of interest to me this week, I decided to throw an extra $3 towards an indie comic I’d never read before and let me preface its review with this offer: the first person I don’t know personally to leave a comment here, I’ll mail it to you, bagged
ménage à trois: 12/8/04
[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.] Since it’s our first time, I’ll kick this format off comfortably with two regulars and a newcomer
Review: Chango’s Fire by Ernesto Quiñonez
There is something simultaneously appealing and frustrating about Ernesto Quiñonez’s second novel, Chango’s Fire, a marked improvement over his highly-flawed debut, Bodega Dreams, but in the end, still something of a disappointment. This time, the problem lies in his biting off more than he can chew with too many subplots rolling around what is essentially
Review: Ezra #3
At first glance, Ezra appears to embody many of the things I dislike about comic books these days: multiple variant covers, scantily-clad women for no apparent reason, too little story and a late shipping schedule. And yet, despite all of that, when I saw it on the stands today, I was happy to finally see
Review: New Avengers #1 / The Ultimates 2 #1
To say I was skeptical about Marvel go-to-guy Brian Michael Bendis’ New Avengers seemingly self-serving reload would be quite the understatement. Based on the ill-conceived complete disaster that was Avengers Disassembled, and it’s half-assed epilogue/retrospective in Avengers Finale, I was fully prepared to hate it on sight. Boy was I wrong! After the requisite –