Thursday, October 13, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Saturday, October 8, 2011
What's up? Docs!
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fix,
karp,
karp lives,
melvins,
ministry,
music,
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Friday, October 7, 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Last Call
So the first month of the rest of DC's life is done. I'm sure the comic fans are about as tired reading reviews as I am writing them. So this is it on DC for the time being. Anyhow, from what I read, quality exceeded my expectations. Apart from that, it showed that you can still gather some interest in a print industry. Whether this is a turnaround point or the last spasms of the industry's corpse remain to be seen.
Blackhawks
The main reason I picked this book up was because the titular characters share a name with my favorite hockey team. Aside from that, I wanted to check out some non-capes-and-tights stuff by creators I'm unfamiliar with. This is kind of GI Joeish and although it's not a great start, and I'll likely pick up issue two. These are a lot of completely new characters that Costa introduced which is always tough to do in 20 pages. I'm interested enough to see what he's doing and will stick around a little more.
Superman
This had a good story and stellar artwork, but I had a little problem with the script being too wordy. Not that I don't like reading, but I feel that Perez hasn't adapted to modern comicbook storytelling. A lot of the text is unnecessary and can be told through the art. I won't pick up the next few issues, but will be back for issue seven when Giffen takes over writing duties. So I guess that's something.
Anyway, those are the twelve comics I bought this month. Here's the final tally as to what I liked:
I'm in for good:
Resurrection Man
Wonder Woman
I'm in for issue two:
OMAC
Swamp Thing
Blackhawks
Maybe (but probably not):
Action
Deathstroke
Frankenstein
Batman
Penguin
I'm Out:
Justice League
Red Lanterns
Superman
Blackhawks
The main reason I picked this book up was because the titular characters share a name with my favorite hockey team. Aside from that, I wanted to check out some non-capes-and-tights stuff by creators I'm unfamiliar with. This is kind of GI Joeish and although it's not a great start, and I'll likely pick up issue two. These are a lot of completely new characters that Costa introduced which is always tough to do in 20 pages. I'm interested enough to see what he's doing and will stick around a little more.
Superman
This had a good story and stellar artwork, but I had a little problem with the script being too wordy. Not that I don't like reading, but I feel that Perez hasn't adapted to modern comicbook storytelling. A lot of the text is unnecessary and can be told through the art. I won't pick up the next few issues, but will be back for issue seven when Giffen takes over writing duties. So I guess that's something.
Anyway, those are the twelve comics I bought this month. Here's the final tally as to what I liked:
I'm in for good:
Resurrection Man
Wonder Woman
I'm in for issue two:
OMAC
Swamp Thing
Blackhawks
Maybe (but probably not):
Action
Deathstroke
Frankenstein
Batman
Penguin
I'm Out:
Justice League
Red Lanterns
Superman
Monday, October 3, 2011
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