Or – “Breaking My Rule, Because What Else Are Rules For?” As a comics reader, you often end up on a treadmill of event comics, shocking reveals, alternate realities, and everything-you-know-is-wrongs. Occasionally, though, certain moments or characters break through the mediocrity. Kate Spencer as Manhunter. Uncle Sam punching out Superman. Storm with a mohawk. But one of the more recent wonderful bits came when a young lad named Jaime picked up the mantle of the Blue Beetle and ran with it. As you might surmise from context, it seems to have ended quite badly, and even though I picked this…
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As the blight consumes Ferelden, thousands flee for their lives; many perish, but some make it to the neighboring kingdom of Kirkwall. Among them is Hawke, an individual whose influence will soon determine the fate of the city. As you witness his/her/its rise to power you’ll experience action (to an extent), romance, tragedy, betrayal, and load screens…so very many load screens.
Parody has spawned some successful properties, for example, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Lorna is a Trailer Trash Tomb Raider Parody, and it wholeheartedly owns up to this fact, with tongue firmly planted in cheek. But, does this One Shot of Lorna become a National Treasure? Or is it a Temple of Doom? Note: This book arrives March 23, 2011, so SPOILERS AHEAD!
Hearken back to the days of yesteryear, when our heroes were mysterious and pulpy. Fog fell from the sky like sunshine and the damsel in distress always wore red. The Spider has a mop of hair and fangs…if you want to know more details, you’re going to have to jump.
What do a pair of journalistic beauties and an African warmonger have in common? Find out after the jump.
Sometimes we get books to review the day they are released. Other times we get them a few days before they hit your comic book store. And occasionally, we get a peek at comics way in advance of when they are scheduled to arrive. Blue Estate from Image Comics kicks off next month, but we’ve got your early review now, and all you have to do is take the jump. Spoilers Ahead!
Sometimes when two comic book characters meet they fight, it’s pretty much a universal law. Sometimes these meetings are in the end good, they learn to work through each others differences to make the world a better place. That won’t be the case when Bomb Queen meets Cassie Hack, and her hulking bodyguard Vlad. Will this match made in Hell, literally pull at the strings of your heart? Or will it just be one giant tease?
Hunter was never in time for his classes… He wasn’t in time for his dinner… Then one day… all hell broke lose and he wound up at Morning Glory Academy.
After a two issue jaunt in Japan with the luscious Catwoman, that had the pair tussle with the infamous Lord Death Man, and skirted the boarders of tentacle porn. How will Batman’s adventures in South America with El Gaucho fair? Take the jump and find out.
Sometimes you walk away from a comic because your favorite author leaves it as well, that was the case for me, and Garth Ennis. I didn’t read anything Punisher because I didn’t think it would be as good as Ennis, boy was a I wrong.
Cage’s Avengers have started to come into their own as a group, but can the team handle a mortally wounded Mockingbird on their first real mission together? Also, what was Fury putting together back in the late 1950’s? Find out after the jump.
Or – “Marvel Vs. DC, 25 Years Or So Early…” There was a time in comics when the creator pool was a much smaller, and much tighter knit group, and when editorial control was pretty much limited to “Hey, Marv wants to use your guy next month.” Creators might travel back and forth between the various publishers (though there was a Big Two, even then) and carry concepts and characters with them, as Steve Englehart did with Mantis and her various counterparts throughout his work. Eventually, this would lead to unofficial crossover stories (one of which birthed the concept known…
Secrets are revealed, a quest begins, and a party is formed. Dark Sun continues to spin a tale set in a desolate world, and it just keeps getting better.
Or – “V-I-L-L-A-I-N. ‘Villian’ Is Not A Word, Folks.” The Legion of Super-Villains has gone through a lot of membership changes in it’s decades (our time) of service. The last LSV consisted of nearly every member of every incarnation of the team and came within inches of destroying the entire multiverse before being stopped by an all-star three-universe Legion of Super-Heroes. What the team has generally lacked, though, is a strong leadership force. Have you met Ted Saturn Queen?