A friend recently bought the Iron Man Disassembled tpb and I mentioned how I had thought it was one of the worst Iron Man stories in quite awhile. Unfortunately when challenged for specifics I actually couldn’t quite remember why, but I did remember the story leaving a bad taste in my mouth that was only [...]

It appears that Mr Whedon has very big plans indeed for Runaways. I think I’m looking forward to the Crisis on Inifinite Molly’s storyline. No tag for this post.

Just in case there was any lingering doubt over the likely absence of anything “good” in the announced Marvel Avengers movie, Bags and Boards says that the person responsible for writing this oncoming travesty will be Zack Penn who has a decidedly checkered record. Tags: movie

I just don’t know if I can even begin to be properly pessimistic about the chance that the newly announced series of Avengers movies is going to be even watchable. Have you seen the travesty that is The Ultimate Avengers Movie? It’s not even like the recent Marvel movies have been really very good. The [...]

A friend sent along a link to an LJ post where someone did what they thought covers of three prominent DC comics would look like if the male characters where treated the same visually as the female characters usually are. I think it illustrates the point nicely. Quite possibly not work safe. Tags: comic

A few weeks of comics all in one shot: Marvel Comics: Avengers 52 (May 2002) & 53 (Jun 2002) – The Kang the Conqueror storyline thunders onward to it’s conclusion in issue 54. In a lot of ways I’m really looking forward to it ending, and in a lot of ways I’m not. A friend [...]

In this world there are storytellers. People who utter strings of words from there minds that might be otherwise impossible, but when those particular people utter those words, there is the barest hint that it might just be true. I’ve never been gifted enough to be a true storyteller, but I know some of the [...]

Alias #8 – Max – Okay, let’s get this down now: Rick Jones is a complete headcase. Do NOT start with this issue! That is all. Deadline #1 (of 4) – Marvel – A very good “regular people who have to deal with superheros” story so far. I’m really looking forward to the next couple [...]

Quite a haul today from ye’ olde comic shoppe. I’ll go in quality from worst to best to get the crap done first: Blade #1 (Marvel Max) – Oh my goodness did this suck really large oblong rancid-dead-anemone-coated rocks. Ewww. The dialog sucked. The plot and pacing was annoying. The art was okay, but reminded [...]