Reviews of a Comic Book nature for the week of 2007-09-26

Ultimate Spider-Man #114 - This issue was action packed!.....Unfortunately, that's not why I read USM. This book is all about the character interactions and the action focused issues tend to be weakest. I'm still not 100% sold on Immonen's art either, but I do enjoy his …

Reviews of a Comic Book nature for the week of 2007-09-06

Amazing Spider-Man #544 - So let me get this straight, basically the whole "Back In Black" arc was completely useless??? We are back to were we started and the premise of "One More Day" seems to be very similar, except instead of looking for revenge, Spidey is looking …

She-Hulk Vol. 1-4

Apparently the She-Hulk title has a pretty rich history of being rather tongue-in-cheek. Like Deadpool in the Cable & Deadpool series, She-Hulk has been known to routinely break the fourth wall and talk to her audience. While there isn't any of that to be found in this …

Reviews of a Comic Book nature for the week of 2007-08-29

Avengers: The Initiative #5 - Oh ya, World War Hulk is still on... just when I was starting to forget it. In all honesty folks, I was going to drop this book, but since it was such a light week for me I figured I'd put that off until next month. This book isn't bad, but …

Zero Hour: Crisis in Time

Back in the glory days of the early nineties, comics experienced a sales boom. The speculator market ran rampant and everyone bought as many "event" books as they could, hoping that their next purchase would turn into a hundred dollar book down the road. Unfortunately, …

JSA: The Golden Age

JSA has been getting a helluva lot of buzz lately due to the exceptional series written by Geoff Johns, but apparently it was pretty damn good prior to that relaunch. I thought I'd try to dip my toe in the old DC lore with a few JSA trades and the first on my list is …

Reviews of a Comic Book nature for the week of 2007-08-15

Ultimate Spider-Man #112 - This was Stuart Immonen's first issue and I'm of mixed feelings about it. I love his style and his action scenes were excellent and very dynamic, but I felt that the high school scenes lost me a bit. They weren't bad but they weren't Bagley …

Review of Squadron Supreme

Squadron Supreme

By Mark Gruenwald and Various Artists

"Before Watchmen... Before Marvels... Before Kingdom Come... There was Squadrom Supreme."

That's the opening sentence to the summary on the back of the collected trade of Mark Gruenwald's opus, Squadron …

Reviews of a Comic Book nature for the week of 2007-08-01

World War Hulk #3 - Well I think this book has started to go into cruise control and that's a shame, I really enjoyed the first two issues. It's fallen into a formula: Hulk faces off against an enemy/hero and the hero almost wins but then the Hulk turns the table and …

Reviews of a Comic Book nature for the week of 2007-08-08

New Avengers #33 - This is one of my favorite Marvel books and I love where Bendis is taking this story but I do feel that this issue went a bit off track. I still loved it but the scenes with the villains (most of whom I didn't know) and Deathlok didn't interest me …

Reviews of a Comic Book nature for the week of 2007-07-25

I thought i'd try my hand at posting some thoughts on this week's comics (the ones I've read so far at least):

ALL STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN THE BOY WONDER #6- Holy shit was i suprised to see this book in my stack, didn't the last issue only come out last month? This has …

Eight Have You's (courtesy of ACBG)

1. Have you ever dated someone twice?
Yes, stupid move on my part

2. Have you ever been cheated on?
Not that I know of, but i have my suspicions

3. Have you ever bought condoms?
well duh, i don't want a bunch of mini Mikes running around

4. Have you ever …

Bluesfest 2007

So I've finally recovered from our Canada Day celebration (Happy 4th of July to all you guys by the way) and now I have to prep for the madness that will be Bluesfest.
I bought the festival pass off of a friend (180$, that hurt) and so I plan to be there everyday after …

Have I angered the electronics God????

I'm either extremely unlucky or electronics just hate me. Let me give you a break down of my recent tech woes.
1)Laptop
When I moved out on my own, I was computer-less. Now I don't use a computer for much else than for music, movies and internet but with iTunes I was …

Gotham Central

Based on the lavish praise from iFanboy, I picked up the entire run of Gotham Central from that nefarious LCS in downtown Ottawa. I had previously read the first two trades, and while I found the first to be somewhat average, the second really grabbed my attention with …

Alan Moore's FROM HELL

I just finished reading From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell and weighing in at almost 600 pages, it's a pretty hefty read.
I had previously only seen the From Hell movie, which had received a fairly large amount of criticism lobbed it's way. I always found the …

Trades, Trades and More F'n Trades

As some of you may know I have an ungodly large amount of Trades to work my way through. Slowly but surely the pile is starting to go down (I'm reading about 1-2 1/2 trades per week, depending on the size of the trade and the amount of comics I pick up on …