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Justice League #9 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (story), Jim Lee (pencils), Scott Williams (inks), Alex Sinclair, Pete Pantazis, Gabe Eltaeb (colorists), Gary Frank (feature art), Brad Anderson (feature colors) The Story: Soon, the League will know the dangers of excessive fanship. The Review: One of this title’s biggest pitfalls has been its inability to establish a consistent tone, direction, [...]

Smallville #1 – Review

By: Bryan Q. Miller (story), Pere Pérez (art), Randy Mayor & Chris Beckett (colors) The Story: Somebody save me…I don’t care how you do it…Just save…save…Come on…I’ve been waiting for you. The Review: Smallville was one of those oddball, hybrid shows the WB tends to produce: a bit too weird and geeky to get mainstream [...]

Action Comics #9 – Review

By: Grant Morrison (story), Gene Ha (art), Art Lyon (colors) The Story: This is a president who can honestly say “Yes, I can” to just about any situation. The Review: It’s a fact that a lot of people had high hopes and expectations for this series, not the least because Morrison had writing duties.  This [...]

Action Comics #8 – Review

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Rags Morales, Brad Walker, Rick Bryant, Bob McLeod (artists), Brad Anderson & David Curiel (colorists) The Story: Watch out, Brainiac—Superman’s gonna blow your mind. The Review: Back in 2006, NBC premiered two new shows, both premised on the backstage activities of a sketch-comedy show.  One was Studio 60 on the Sunset [...]

Action Comics #7 – Review

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Rags Morales (penciller), Rick Bryant (inker), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: Ooh—I love your miniatures in a bottle collection.  Wait, is that my house in there? The Review: I tend to feel Superman has the same problem as the Flash in terms of appeal.  The whole heart of the Man of [...]

Action Comics #4 – Review

By: Too many to list—check out the review. The Story: Man of Steel, meet Man in Steel. The Review: I’ve become a bit wary of DC’s backup and co-features over time.  The fact they hang on to a bigger, stronger storyline definitely poses some drawbacks.  Only rarely do they have a charm and intrigue of [...]

JLA: The Age of Wonder – Review

By: Adisakdi Tantimedh (writer), Galen Showman & P. Craig Russell (artists), Dave McCaig (colorist) The Story: I say, up in the sky!  It’s a bird, it’s a plane—oh, wait, those don’t exist yet. The Review: I wasn’t sure how to classify these DC Comics Presents books.  Even though they’re released as “issues,” they really represent [...]

Superman #3 – Review

By: George Pérez (writer), Nicola Scott (penciller), Trevor Scott (inker), Brian Buccellato, Brett Smith, Blond (colorists) The Story: When in doubt, just shoot heat vision at your problem. The Review: Over in Action Comics, Grant Morrison is revamping the early days of Superman and essentially the core of his character.  In Justice League, Geoff Johns [...]

Action Comics #3 – Review

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Rags Morales (penciller), Rick Bryant (inker), Gene Ha (guest artist), Brad Anderson & Art Lyon (colorists) The Story: Corrupt people rabidly spouting nonsense on TV—what will fiction think of next? The Review: Anybody who’s read much of Superman has wondered this question at some point: which is the real alter-ego, Superman [...]

Superman #2 – Review

By: George Pérez (writer), Jesús Merino (artist), Brian Buccellato (colorist) The Story: If you can’t see it, whip out your glasses!  They’re not just for show, you know. The Review: While most characters generally survived the relaunch with their core personalities intact, with few exceptions nearly all of them had some tweaks and changes to [...]

Action Comics #2 – Review

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Rags Morales & Brent Anderson (pencillers), Rick Bryant (inker), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: We’re no Guantanamo, but we’ve got ways of making an alien in a T-shirt talk. The Review: One thing Morrison does consistently well is place characters into unusual situations, and when it comes to iconic superheroes, that [...]

Superman #1 – Review

By: George Pérez (writer), Jesús Merino (artist), Brian Buccellato (colorist) The Story: Extra, extra, read all about it!  Superman realizes print media is dead! The Review: In a lot of ways, Grant Morrison’s reconceptualization of Superman over in Action Comics feels slightly theoretical, almost like an Elseworlds tale in certain respects.  But we all know [...]

Action Comics #1 – Review

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Rags Morales (penciller), Rick Bryant (inker), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: If he falls, a Superman has to get up, dust his jeans off, and hit even harder. The Review: For those of you desperately attempting to push back the memories of Grounded into the far-flung recesses of your brain, don’t [...]

Flashpoint: Project Superman #3 – Review

By: Scott Snyder & Lowell Francis (writers), Gene Ha (artist), Art Lyon (colorist) The Story: It’s a bird, it’s a plane—it’s a flying muscleman with Super-Seiyan hair! The Review: If you’re going to write one of these Elseworlds-type stories, my unsolicited suggestion would be to really take the plunge into the alternate universe aspect of [...]

Flashpoint: Lois Lane and the Resistance #3 – Review

By: Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers), Christian Duce (penciller), Walden Wong (inker), Hi-Fi (colorist) The Story: No, no, I said we need to get the truth out there! The Review: I had a literary journalism major as an undergrad.  One of the required courses I took was on journalistic ethics, which included a session [...]

Supergirl #67 – Review

By: Kelly Sue DeConnick (writer), Chriscross (penciller), Marc Deering (inker), Blond (colorist) The Story: Think Ghostbusters meets the Goonies, with a splash of the Breakfast Club. The Review: In my review of Zatanna #13, I mentioned that a supporting cast can really make a title, a point worth elaborating.  No matter how strong a star, [...]

Superman #714 – Review

By: J. Michael Straczynski & Chris Roberson (writers), Jamal Igle (penciller), Jon Sibal & Robin Riggs (inkers), Marcelo Maiolo (colorist) The Story: Stop eating those French fries, Superman, have some self-respect!  Don’t you know you can fly?! The Review: Superman has been around for so long, has been written by so many different kinds of [...]

Flashpoint: Lois Lane and the Resistance #2 – Review

By: Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers), Gianluca Gugliotta (artist), Hi-Fi (colorist) The Story: What do we want?  Men’s rights!  When do we want it?  Now! The Review: Historically, resistance movements against foreign occupiers have been marginalized in importance, mostly because much of what they do tend to be, by nature and necessity, discreet and [...]

Flashpoint: Project Superman #2 – Review

By: Scott Snyder & Lowell Francis (writers), Gene Ha (artist), Art Lyon (colorist) The Story: “I’m only hurting you because I love you so much,” takes on all new meaning. The Review: Traditionally, we tend to see Superman’s values and virtues as something bred in him by the good, wholesome, Midwestern upbringing of Ma and [...]

The Real Thing – ft. Kelly Sue DeConnick (Part 2)

Hello again from the Real Thing, where we give you, absolutely free of charge, part two of our talk with Kelly Sue DeConnick.  Yesterday we spoke about the place of women behind comics.  Today we talk about women in comics (and some dudes as well). ——- You’ve said that you were a fan of Wonder [...]

Supergirl #66 – Review

By: Kelly Sue DeConnick (writer), Chrisscross (penciller), Marc Deering (inker), Blond (colorist) The Story: And here I thought college was supposed to get you out of the sewers. The Review: To capture the audience’s attention and to keep it, even long after the story finishes, you need characters who strike you with as much vitality [...]

Superman #713 – Review

By: J. Michael Straczynski & Chris Roberson (writers), Diogenes Neves, Oclair Albert, Eddy Barrows, JP Mayer, Jamal Igle, Jon Sibal (artists), Marcelo Maiolo (colorist) The Story: This is a job for Superman!  What?  He’s not there?  Leave a voicemail, I guess…. The Review: No matter how much you get into a superhero comic, at some [...]

Flashpoint #3 – Review

  By: Geoff Johns (writer), Andy Kubert (penciller), Sandra Hope (inker), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: Huh…  So this is Superman.  He’s shorter than I imagined. The Review: There are essentially two important conflicts driving the events in Flashpoint: you have Reverse Flash’s alterations to reality, the consequences of which remain unclear; and you also [...]

Action Comics #902 – Review

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Kenneth Rocafort & Axel Giménez (artists), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: And I was like Doomsday, Doomsday, Doomsday, no…  Stop singing?  Okay. The Review: One thing you’ll notice with a lot of movies nowadays is that they’ll pile on the action to keep you from noticing how little story there is [...]

Flashpoint: Lois Lane and the Resistance #1 – Review

By: Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers), Eddie Nunez (penciller), Don Ho (inker), Hi-Fi (colorist) The Story: All the single ladies, all the single ladies—put your hands up!  You’re under arrest! The Review: Considering the overwhelming span and scope of these Big Events, DC has made a laudable effort to ensure the numerous Flashpoint tie-ins [...]

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