Archive for November, 2005

Last Week’s Comics

November 21, 2005, 7:54 pm

Here are my quick thoughts on last week’s haul:

All-Star Superman #1

I’m somewhat ambivalent on this. It was a fine read, but it didn’t much feel like a Superman comic to me. I can’t really put my finger on why, though. It seems like Grant Morrison really wants to write a Mr. Quintum comic, featuring Superman.

The [...]

New Excalibur #1

November 11, 2005, 9:01 pm

I rarely, if ever, buy any Marvel Comics in the X-Men vein. People talk about how screwed up DC’s continuity is, or how crazy the multiverse is, but I prefer that to the constantly rotating cast and years-long story lines of the Marvel X-books. I tried jumping into the X-Men back when Jean Grey was [...]

Infinite Crisis #2

November 11, 2005, 9:43 am

As usual, spoilers ahead, perhaps.

This issue felt to me like those certain television show episodes; you know, the ones near the end of the season, when the producers have used up all their budget and resort to the lamest of plots: the characters reminiscing about things they have done in the past, so they can [...]