Amazing Spider-Man 582 review

Spidey battles Molten Man for the life of Harry Osborn as the latter’s estranged wife Liz tries to get their frankly vile little boy, Normie, to safety. Me, I’d throw him at his Uncle Mark’s lava-dripping arse. Unusually since the dawn of Brand New Day, this is a single setting issue, with no subplots. But […]

Secret Six 5 review

Another month, another issue of one of DC’s most consistent books. I was afraid the company’s Faces of Evil linewide stunt would derail the ongoing Get Out of Hell Free card storyline, but all it means is a Deadshot solo cover by Andrew Robinson, along with his narrative PoV. It doesn’t tell me anything I […]

Words fail Wonder Man

So, Im reading the Avengers: Galactic Storm trade, volume 1, and there’s a story from Wonder Man issue 7. There’s a great fight with Captain Atlas of the Kree, Simon wins, then we get this scene: Anyone know what dialogue went missing?

Cosmic Size Fantastic 4 1 review

Reed and Ben bring something nasty back from a pocket dimension, necessitating a two-day quarantine for the FF and kids Franklin and Valeria, who soon notice that their elders are acting jolly oddly. That’s your basic story from Cary Bates and Bing Cansino and it’s absorbing enough. What really had my attention more, though, was […]

Great moments in comics

Citizen Steel takes the phrase ‘comic strip’ a tad too literally in Justice Society of America 22 . . .

Avengers: The Initiative 20 review

Writers Dan Slott and Christos Gage start wrapping up the current storylines of a book that’s gotten better with every issue. This comic was, hands down, the finest thing to come out of Civil War and almost justified the waste of paper that was Secret Invasion. Month after month we’ve had intrigue, action, suspense, twisted […]

Superman 683 review

Behind one of Alex Ross’s constipated elderly Superman covers, here’s the penultimate part of New Krypton and events crank up a gear as the JSA, JLA, Starfire and Steel confront Superman over the small matter of Kandorians murdering Earth policemen and generally stomping carelessly around the planet. Superman tries to evoke the Code of Dibs […]

Final Crisis Secret Files 1 review

There are two covers to this issue, one featuring the villain Libra, the other, Wonder Woman. I prefer the Libra one, not just because I like Frank Quitely’s image more than that of Richard Friend and Randy Mayor, but because it shows a character actually featured in the issue. There’s no real reason for Wonder […]

Secret Invasion: Requiem . . .

. . . or, The Skrulls Got Me Killed and All I Got Was This Lousy Cover. Brrr, that really is a weird illo from Khoi Pham. What’s the Wasp known for? Being a tiny superheroine. What do we have here? A composition that makes Janet Van Dyne look huge. And ugly. Really, the woman […]

Wonder Woman 27 review

Superheroes have a code against killing. Everyone knows that. A lesser known understanding is the Code of Dibs. Members of a heroic family can claim a conflict as their own even if regular, non-powered people are threatened and other heroes are willing and able to help out. The rule is amply demonstrated this issue as […]