Alan Moore and Frank Miller get a lot of credit for "reinventing" comics in the 1980s (and deservedly so), but I don't think Howard Chaykin gets enough. I that's because "grim 'n' gritty" is an easy-to-sum-up catchphrase, but the kind of storytelling
This series just didn't click with me the first time I read it (or started to). After an issue or two I decided to set it aside to read sometime when I'm more in the mood, now that I had a better idea of what it was like. Then last week, The Justice
Recently I had been reading the Captain America by Mark Gruenwald omnibus specifically to determine why that run didn't appeal to me. Once I found that answer, I lost all interest in the project a dozen or so issues shy of the end of the volume. Wher
I am currently working my way through Aztec Ace (1984) for the first time thanks to the recent collected edition. I am enjoying it a great deal, but it's proving to take longer than I had anticipated to finish. I am already looking forward to other,
First, as is my custom, here are some irrelevant images to provide spoiler space:
We begin with the Red Skull's daughter, Sin, slaughtering some archaeologists in Germany in order to steal the helmet of Eirda, the Greek goddess of hate. I would've
WOLVERINE #1: Logan goes feral again, but Nightcrawler tries to bring him home. Meanwhile, an "ancient force" awakens, which will become Wolvie's latest arch-foe. This is supposed to push Wolverin
I've lost count of how many times [DC has] re-discovered the multiverse. Well, first it was 52 parallel universes. Then they discovered those were just the "local" multiverse.
Last week while I was reading a DC comic book from 2006, I came across DC
ALIENS VS AVENGERS #1: Wait, Jonathan Hickman is writing this? He must be looking for a fun distraction after all the world-building he did (that got un-did) in the X-books. Esad Ribic is on the art, and I like his work,
EXCEPTIONAL X-MEN #1: New X-editor Tom Brevoort said in some interview or other that he'd love to have a new #1 every week if he could. He's not missed many. In this one, Kate Pryde is a bartender in Chicago, and wants no
WOLVERINE: REVENGE #1 (OF 5): The all-star team of Jonathan Hickman and Greg Capullo tell a Wolvie story in the Savage Land. Why? Who cares! Should be pretty good.
WOLVERINE REVENGE RED BAND #1 (OF 5): Here's the "
With my pal, Jeff of Earth-J, currently posting about his viewing of the Lone Ranger television series and feature films, I thought it might be a good time to rerun one of my favourite Deck Log entries . . .