REVIEW: TRINITY OF SIN: PHANTOM STRANGER #21
Although TRINITY OF SIN: PHANTOM STRANGER #21 by J.M. DeMatteis, Fernando Blanco and Cliff Richards is an impressive piece of comic storytelling, I’m not sure I’m such a big fan of the Phantom...
View ArticleREVIEW: SWAMP THING #33
Swamp Thing is the type of guy that when his allies betray him and set him up in a Knightfall plot, he handles the whole thing in three pages and then the badguys return the boss’ money and say they...
View ArticleREVIEW: CONSTANTINE #16
This month’s CONSTANTINE by Ray Fawkes, Edgar Salazar and Jay Leisten seems almost specifically written and illustrated to correct my hangups over last month’s issue. Last month saw the mystical...
View ArticleREVIEW: INFINITY MAN AND THE FOREVER PEOPLE #2
INFINITY MAN AND THE FOREVER PEOPLE #2 by Keith Giffen, Dan Didio, Tom Grummett and Scott Hanna is The Hobbit without a Hobbit. Here we’ve got this big ensemble cast, about as well developed as the...
View ArticleREVIEW: JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #33
J.M. DeMatteis sure knows how to kick off a new story arc. This month’s JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK by DeMatteis, Andres Guinaldo, and Walden Wong & Raul Fernandez is well paced, dramatically effective,...
View ArticleREVIEW: STAR SPANGLED WAR STORIES STARRING G.I. ZOMBIE #1
When I first heard of STAR SPANGLED WAR STORIES by Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray and Scott Hampton, I was hoping for something along the lines of Sergeant Fury and His Howling Commandos, or the classic...
View ArticleREVIEW: TRINITY OF SIN: PHANTOM STRANGER #22
“The cliffhanger the issue ends on is the sort of thing that would normally have me bracing myself for disappointment, but I have a little more faith in DeMatteis than that. The payoff for such a bold...
View ArticleREVIEW: SWAMP THING #34
SWAMP THING #34 by Charles Soule and Javier Pina wraps up some plot threads a little abruptly, but not unsatisfactorily as Holland confronts Weeds and Wolf in the middle of a five-wanted-stars murder...
View ArticleREVIEW: CONSTANTINE #17
I’ll just come out and say it, I’m lost. Admittedly I’m usually following eight books a month and by the time a new Constantine rolls around, I’ve probably forgotten half of what the last one was...
View ArticleREVIEW: TRINITY OF SIN: PANDORA #14
Last week’s CONSTANTINE was one of the biggest disappointments of the month for me. After some solid issues, the series seemed to devolve into the tangled, dull web of exposition that is superhero...
View ArticleREVIEW: JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #34
I spent last week’s review bitching and moaning about how CONSTANTINE always has to explain everything, as if magic is real and you’ve absolutely got to understand the science of it if you hope to...
View ArticleREVIEW: TRINITY OF SIN: PHANTOM STRANGER: FUTURE’S END #1
If you want to see one of the best working comics writers saddled with way too much expositional busywork, TRINITY OF SIN: THE PHANTOM STRANGER: FUTURE’S END #1 by J.M. DeMatteis and Phil Winslade is...
View ArticleREVIEW: SWAMP THING: FUTURE’S END #1
On the one hand, SWAMP THING: FUTURE’S END #1 by Charles Soule and Jesus Saiz is the big exposition dump we have to get out of the way before Swamp Thing can get involved in the next big blockbuster...
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