One person for an entire series spanning from the start to the end of the series is a run right? Maybe between series like Aaron’s Wolverine arc. An artist run is what I want to talk about because I’ve been finishing and starting them and I’ve been wondering what a run is in comics, how writers (and artists) approach them and just how much of this is praying over and over that you get the time you need to tell the story. Remender got a chance with Uncanny X-force.
Category: Reviews
Batman RIP: A Retrospective on Morrison’s Batman
Morrison’s Batman lives. It runs, it hurts, it gets sick, it heals. You can see the birth there, in those bits of 52. You can find it learning how to breath, death becoming a second motion – little deaths becoming a pattern of the world they live in. Batman is dying again and again, little deaths until the end with the 13th issue of Inc. But Batman never dies. Batman and Robin never die. We’ve been graced with an unkillable mortal and he has graced up with his son and so we look at the future before us.
Journey Into Exiles 1
I like the idea of different universes and different takes on comic characters. What would happen if the worlds were slightly or super different and just staying on long enough to try and fix them. Sort of Quantum Leap in the Marvel Universe. And Exiles is one of those series that I think a lot of people forgot about after it came out or have never heard of. It is something I loved though, attacking everything via the Marvel Unlimited books (though the Exiles page is wacked out and full of double issues and out of order books instead of just the normal issues using it) and then a torrent of the two issues it was missing because it was maddening and sometimes if I pay for the account and buy my weeklies I don’t feel guilty about torrenting if the Unlimited collection is missing an issue or two. This is a look back of the first 32 issues of Exiles.
Ghost Town #2 Review
Script by Ryan K. Lindsay
Art by Daniel Logan
Colors by Brian Dyck
Ghost Town created by Rob Ruddell and Dave Dwonch
I’m going to do my best to avoid spoilers, but I make no promises.
Earth X: Too Many Stories, Too Little …. Quality
So the point of Planet X is that the the Earth and all of the superheroes are there for a reason and that is why the Earth has gone to shit, because it was supposed to. Everything is more or less preordained and everything is part of something bigger and yet smaller and everything in the Marvel universe has a reason. And my god does the book suck. Planet X spoilers below.
HeroesCon 2013: Naps And Drinking
It can be rough out there trying to break into the comic industry. It is all about knowing people, doing good work and in the long run spending lots of money. That last part is the tough one because of the economics of the system. Paying for convention tables, paying to print work, paying for hotels, paying for travel, paying for food and even paying for other people’s work because you need to stay up to date on comics – it can suck.
The Avengers Return to TV
(Originally this was supposed to run a while ago)
Airing this Sunday at 11 will be the one-hour premiere of Disney’s new Avengers television program Marvel’s Avengers Assemble. The look and lineup of the series will be very familiar to those who have read the Avengers Assemble ongoing series. Both the look of the series and cartoon are to capitalize off the popularity of the hit Avengers film from last year with the lineup consisting of the six members of the film with the addition of the Falcon.
You Didn’t Make Me Happy
Happy could have been amazing. Teaming up a cartoonish sprite with a hardboiled killer can be good comics. Having a symbol of innocence floating around a hardened kill in a brutally dark setting – I’d like to see it done well and I say I’d like to see it done because in Happy, the series becomes so heavily mired with black despair and grime that it never recovers and ultimately reads like someone’s poorly conceived Sin City spinoff.
Underseen Indie Darlings Jeff Who Lives at Home and Shame
As we approach Oscar night, Nerdcenaries is going to shift into some reviews of acclaimed films that you’ll be hearing about that you probably didn’t see like “Jeff Who Lives At Home” and “Shame”. Check out the reviews below the bump and feel free to suggest movies you’d like to see in the future.
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Ultimate Spider-man Season 1
I think most people came towards Ultimate Spider-man with chips on their shoulders. I did. I mean, it was the enemy series! The sham king! The forced new series! The beginning of the end! And honestly it is far from perfect, far from the spectacular series that came before (and that was cut off before its time). It was branded the Family Guy Spider-man! People said it ruined their faith in Paul Dini. It is used in a Godwin’s Law fashion amongst cartoon and comic viewers – but it doesn’t deserve all of the hate.