The comic book Chew continues to impress in its third and fourth trade paperback collections, “Just Desserts” and “Flambe’.” If you’re unfamiliar with this series, you can check out my previous posts about it here and here. In these latest volumes, cibopathic detective Tony Chu’s career as a special agent of the Food and Drug [...]
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The superb artwork of Alex Ross is, for me, the primary strength of Kingdom Come, a graphic novel that struck me as “Marvels in reverse” for the DC Universe. Whereas Marvels mines the past, Kingdom Come speculates on the DC universe’s future: one in which the classic crimefighters have retired, and a new wave of [...]
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After a promising start, the Hawkeye & Mockingbird comic book stumbles a bit in its crossover with Black Widow in the Widowmaker sequence, a four-issue omnibus following on the titles I reviewed last month. I found this tale of super-spies on a hit-list a bit scattered and not terribly compelling. I still loved David Lopez’s [...]
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My recent rediscovery of comics inspired me to re-read Greg Rucka’s Queen & Country series from start to finish. I’d call it the best spy comic ever, but I honestly don’t know if there are any other ones! At any rate it’s great, addictive stuff. I don’t really have much to add about the series [...]
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Marvel’s recent run of Avengers lead-up movies has been splashy, silly, clever, and entertaining, and Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) is no exception. This latest origin story provides fun, violent period camp, and puts a surprisingly effective human face on a superhero who, for me anyway, has always been kind of a tough one [...]
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I think the recent barrage of Marvel reboots has worked its effect on me, especially the animated Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes series. Why? Well, somehow a bunch of comic books “fell” into my digital shopping cart recently. The one I was most excited about was Hawkeye & Mockingbird: Ghosts, which collects the first six issues [...]
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I started watching the animated Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes as background noise, a way to pass the time while I ate lunch after my morning writing session. I wasn’t expecting it to be great, and it’s not, but it ended up pushing all sorts of nostalgia buttons and I, uh, kind of ended up getting [...]
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I recently devoured (sorry) volume one of the bizarre comic book series Chew. Much as Queen & Country did, Chew opened me up to the idea of comics as a versatile format for episodic, serial story-telling in the vein of the addictive TV shows I like. It also, uh, kind of put me off my [...]
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After years away from the format, I feel like an inexpert judge of comic books, but lately I’ve been dipping into some of the stuff on Jenn’s shelf and I’ve been rather enjoying Joss Whedon’s comics work — to be specific, his futuristic sequel to the Buffy universe, Fray, and his Astonishing X-Men books. Fray [...]
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