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Soldier Zero #1: Stan Lee! BOOM! C’mon!
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: October 20, 2010
It always kind of bums me out when two great things come out at once and only one of them gets a lick of attention. After twenty minutes in my local shop, it seemed like everybody was singing the praises of Kick-Ass 2 and nobody was talking about (or picking up, for that matter) BOOM! [...]
Spider-Man: Back in Quack #1: It Is What It Is, Bro
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: October 6, 2010
Oh god, another Spider-Man/Howard the Duck team-up book? Well, if that ain’t a bit of déjà vu, I dunno what is. But considering how awkward that old Steve Gerber/Darick Robertson issue was, how much better can Stuart Moore (or really anybody other than the late Gerber, for that matter) do? The Service Organization of Philanthropic [...]
Thor #615: He’s Done Sci-Fi, Now Fraction Goes Mystical
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: September 23, 2010
I have a bad habit of hyping something up for myself so hard that when it finally rolls around, I can’t help but give it a resounding “meh.” After digging Straczynski’s run on Thor as much as I did (and being admittedly unenthusiastic about Gillien’s short stint), I was ecstatic when I heard that Matt [...]
One Month to Live #1: Marvel Universe vs. Mortality
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: September 1, 2010
Comic books are full of characters getting second and third chances. Resurrection, redemption, time travel, and deals with the devil are so commonplace that superpowers might just as well come with a big undo button. Dennis Sykes isn’t so lucky. He works a soul-crushing job as a banker, only to come home to his wife [...]
The New Adventures of Hitler: Oh, the Controversy
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: August 30, 2010
Sorry, guys. It’s time for another history lesson. So! In 1910, some Irish lady named Bridget Dowling moved to Liverpool and married a German guy named Alois Hitler waaaay before that name meant anything to anybody. In 1914, Alois abandoned his family, faked his death after WWI, and bigamously married some German lady. In 1939 [...]
Dracula: The Company of Monsters #1 Preview!
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: August 24, 2010
Vampires are everywhere right now (really, X-Men? Really?) and when I saw that a book with a title like Dracula: The Company of Monsters was coming out on BOOM!, my first thought was, “Oh, shit, not you guys, too!” But then I saw a glimmer of hope shining through my funk of apathy for the [...]
Batman Beyond #1 and Why Bruce Wayne Will Never Again Be Batman
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: July 2, 2010
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When I was a young’un, I’d wake up early every Saturday morning to watch the crap out of some Batman Beyond. For whatever reason, a Batman in the future kind of seemed like one of the most awesome things ever (even if the show was pretty much just made up words, Seth Green, and day-glo [...]
Jurassic Park #1: My Childhood’s Riding on This One
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: June 24, 2010
So, remember in October 2009 when Maggie and I put together that post about which licensed properties we’d like to see made into comics? Apparently, the comics gods have been paying attention. Last week, we were ecstatic when BOOM’s Darkwing Duck: The Duck Knight Returns popped up on shelves. Lo and behold, this week I [...]
7 Psychopaths #1: My Favorite Non-Alcoholic French Import
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: May 24, 2010
I’ve always been a bit curious about foreign comics. Aside from a few old Astérix comics I’ve flipped through, I’m pretty much in the dark about any comics from the non-English speaking world. Meanwhile, over in France, Delcourt Productions has been reprinting translated versions of a bunch of American and Japanese comics including Invincible, The [...]
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