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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1: Nostalgia Goggles, Don’t Fail Me Now!
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: August 26, 2011
IDW has always had a bad habit of taking their dirty franchise-licensing thumbs and jamming it into my pie of childhood nostalgia (terrible metaphor, but go with it). Every time I hear that there’s going to be a new comic based on something from my youth, I get super-excited until I see that it’s coming [...]
Infinite Vacation #1: This is Your Multiverse on Drugs
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: January 12, 2011
One of my New Year’s Resolutions this year was to buy a comic every Wednesday that I know nothing about. Considering how much I enjoyed last week’s Who Is Jake Ellis?, this has actually been a pretty good plan. On this week’s Wednesday pilgrimage, I came across Infinite Vacation by Nick Spencer, a guy whose [...]
T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #1: What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: November 11, 2010
Much like the old characters from Charlton, Fawcett, Milestone, and MLJ Comics, DC has recently acquired the full rights to the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents team and is folding them into the DCU in their own title. Before I get into a review of T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #1, however, I should probably tell you a bit about their [...]
Superboy #1: Think Small
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: November 3, 2010
Ever since the Superman panel at SDCC 2010, my interest about Jeff Lemire’s Superboy had been piqued. After all, he’s proven with Essex County, The Nobody, and Sweet Tooth that he’s best writing about what happens in small-town America and, well, it doesn’t get more small-town America than Smallville. Directly following his stint as the [...]
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 [...]
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