Posted in Comics, Reviews, Swashbuckling, Zorro on February 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was understandably geeked when I discovered that there would be a new Zorro comic this year, and written by Matt Wagner, no less. (That it’s by Dynamite, the same company who’ve been releasing the current Lone Ranger comics, which I’ve heard are pretty good, is a plus.) So, naturally, when the first issue came [...]
Posted in Comics, Pulp, Reviews on February 15, 2008 | No Comments »
So awhile ago I happily discussed The Next Issue Project, wherein many modern-day writers and artists would essentially continue defunct old series from the golden age of comics, using characters that are now in the public domain. A great idea indeed. Then, more recently, I geeked out over the fact that it was, supposedly, about [...]
Posted in Administrative, Comics on February 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Of course it’s always painful when one of your favorite writers dies–especially one who you read voraciously in your youth. What else is there to say?
R.I.P. Steve Gerber
I suppose I should have paid more attention to goings on, as I didn’t even know that he was sick. But goddamn. I wish I had read his [...]
Posted in Comics, Kung Fu, Pulp, Reviews on February 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sorry about the long, long, long, long, long, looooong absence. School. Bleh. I’ll continue to post when I can, but it won’t be as often as I’d like.
Moving on, it’s funny that my three favorite current comic titles are all a) ongoing series featuring perennial C-list characters, and b) written by a team of two [...]
Posted in Baron, Comics on January 3, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Ever since my earliest days as a young fan of superhero comics, one of my favorites amongst the “long underwear” heroes has been Mike Baron’s Badger, a seminally strange character if ever there was one.
The most basic conceit of Badger, in a nutshell, is that he’s crazy. And not darkly tortured and disturbed like some [...]
Posted in Comics, Swashbuckling, Zorro on December 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Sorry for so much comics coverage recently, I try to deal pretty evenly with comic books and… uh, book books.
Anyway, I remember there being a Zorro comic sometime in the 90’s that I looked at for about two seconds before being real disappointed with it, what’s more, there have been some very bad uses of [...]
Posted in Comics, Cool Stuff on November 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Today is Wednesday. New comic book day. Always a cause for celebration. But next Wednesday will be especially so, as it will see the release of the first of the Fantastic Comics #24, the first volume of the Next Issue Project that I gushed about awhile back.
But even better than that, I just the other [...]
Posted in Comics, Reviews, Sci-Fi on October 3, 2007 | No Comments »
As I mentioned recently, the bulk of what I’ve been reading recently has been comic books. I’ve always been a fan, but something about the medium is especially pleasing when the rest of my time is spent reading scholarly texts for school (although I do enjoy those). I actually just gave up on the book [...]
Posted in Comics, Reviews on September 23, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve been reading an awful lot of comic books lately. Not because I particularly prefer them to normal ol’ books (having a preference at all there would be awfully silly) but because they challenge and entice an entirely different part of my brain than my school reading does, making them a better break from that [...]
Posted in Comics, Reviews on September 18, 2007 | No Comments »
So, it took me a little longer to get to my review of Stan Lee’s The Last Fantastic Four Story than I intended to, but I’ve found the time, and here we are.
Now, it seems that the basic consensus amongst internet reviewers has been that it isn’t too good–it’s far too silly and old fashioned [...]
Posted in Best Author Ever, Comics, Cool Stuff, Movies, Pirates, Swashbuckling on August 28, 2007 | No Comments »
I haven’t intended for this blog to become a look at only comic books and movies, I swear it. Prose coverage is, as always, in the works as well, and meant to be the bulk of what is done here. Nonetheless, I must share with you a cool new cover, and the greatest team-up of [...]
Posted in Comics on August 26, 2007 | No Comments »
When I first saw an ad in one of my normal comics for a one-shot called The Last Fantastic Four Story I must say my first thought was “didn’t they already do a Fantastic Four: The End?”
For those who don’t know, Marvel’s “The End” comics are mini-series chronicling a non-canon “ending” for this or that [...]
Posted in Comics, Sci-Fi on August 15, 2007 | No Comments »
The fine folks over at Bookgasm have just recently made me aware of the MOST INCREDIBLE BOOK EVER.
Every new tidbit learned about the strange works of Fletcher Hanks does nothing but get me more excited about reading I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets. Just look at some of the examples given in the above [...]
Posted in Best Author Ever, Comics, Musketeers, Reviews, Swashbuckling on July 25, 2007 | No Comments »
So, the other day I finally broke down and bought the first issue of Marvel Illustrated’s The Man In the Iron Mask, which I discussed before. I suppose when you come right down to it I really do have to give anything based on a Dumas work at least a small shot. Pity I wasn’t [...]
Posted in Comics on July 24, 2007 | No Comments »
“The Next Issue Project” is a damn great idea. Essentially, Image Comics are gathering together a bunch of great creators to grab the reins on a whole mess of obscure, public domain, golden age superheroes, for the purpose of continuing their adventures. It’s up to the writers if they want to do it in an [...]
Posted in Baron, Comics, Reviews, Sci-Fi on July 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Originally, I envisioned myself lending a good deal of blog coverage to comic books as well as more conventional novels–and not using terms like “graphic novel” or, even worse, “sequential art” either. I’m talking about comic books. I ended up avoiding it because the bulk of comics I read are really out of dedication to [...]
Posted in Best Author Ever, Comics, Musketeers, Swashbuckling on July 11, 2007 | 6 Comments »
One last Dumas-related post before I move on to something else (or don’t and keep writing about Dumas).
I was buying comic books this afternoon (Wednesday is always new comics day, for those who don’t know) and ran across a graphic adaptation of Dumas’ The Man In the Iron Mask. I’d known for awhile that Marvel [...]
Posted in Comics on June 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
So, for the record, I am not only into sword-wielding historical heroes and the like; I have a wide breadth of interests.
Another interest of mine? Dinosaurs fighting tanks.
Does it get any better than WWII soldiers fighting prehistoric beasts? ‘Cause I really don’t think it does. I mean, I’m actually not usually into campy stuff purely [...]
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