I don’t know if there’s any writer in the comic industry right now whose work is more compulsively readable than Matt Fraction‘s. On any given day, I can sit down and read 6 comics by him in a row without being bored or reaching for something else. The interesting part is, Matt Fraction’s writing, even … Continue reading
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Top 5 Weirdest Marvel Stories of the Decade #2: X-Men Bizarre Love Triangle
*Note: I know I have some young readers on this site, so this article isn’t recommended for them. Let’s face it true believers, the X-Men series has always been a soap opera. It’s a really cool soap opera, full of psychics, Dr. Moreau style man-animal hybrids, robots, time travel, and outer space epics, but it’s … Continue reading
Top Five Weirdest Marvel Stories of the Past Decade: #3 Ultimatum
#3: Ultimatum Every once in a while in comics by DC or Marvel, writers will get it in their heads that they need to clean house, so to speak, by getting rid of characters who left a mess in their respective books. This purging might also be to deflect the annoying questions from fanboys like … Continue reading
X-Men Versus Cthulu? X-Men: Golgotha Graphic Novel Review
In the five-part series X-Men: Golgotha, the team of mutants collide with Cthulu–well not Cthulu exactly, but the monstrous villain named Golgotha resembles the Cthulu so closely Marvel should owe H.P. Lovecraft’s heirs some money. If you’ve never been initiated into H.P. Lovecraft’s weird and gloomy fiction, the Cthulu is the author’s most famous creation. … Continue reading
Killing in Comics? Traditional Comics vs. Uncanny X-Force
Talk about a love/hate relationship! Excuse my bluntness, but I hate the premise of Uncanny X-Force. A group of alienated characters from the X-Men mythos decide to do what no other superheroes will do: kill when the mission requires it. The 2010 roster includes Wolverine, Psylocke, Deadpool, and Fantomex–awesome group of characters, but I hate … Continue reading
Comic Book Pick of the Day: The Original X-Men #12
The Original X-Men issue 12 is a real meeting of superheroes. No, I don’t just mean it features Prince Namor developing a boyhood crush on Scarlet Witch. The superheroes here are Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Stan Lee has always been an idol of mine, not only because he played such a prominent role in … Continue reading
Atlas Punched: Review of Agents of Atlas Vs. X-Men and the Avengers Graphic Novel.
The argument’s been made by a few of the people I know that the difference between Marvel and DC is that DC emphasizes story and Marvel features a lot of fighting. I’d more or less agree with this (although from the 60s to the 90s Marvel told better stories by and large). I just read … Continue reading
Comic Book Pick of the Day: Secret Invasion: X-Men #2
It always amazes me when comic book writers manage to mult-task and write not only several different series, but also do entirely different genres. Mike Carey seems to do just about everything. He wrote John Constantine Hellblazer for a while, then wrote a ton of X-Men comics, and now is writing one of my favorite … Continue reading
Some Thoughts on Motion Comics.
I’ll admit, originally when I heard about motion comics a year or two ago I thought they sounded stupid. My thought was, “Why bother watching a comic when you can just read one in half the time?” With other cartoons like the 90s Batman, or The Adventures of Superman, or Teen Titans, they existed separate … Continue reading
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