In my early teens, I grew up reading Doc Savage novels. I discovered them when I was in 7th grade, a very impressionable time for a boy. I didn’t know what “pulps” were back then, but I totally grooved on the action and adventure. That would have been in 1969 or 1970, the heyday of […]
Archive for the ‘Superhero’ Category
THE SAVAGE HAWKMAN #1 by Tony Daniels, Philip Tan, and Sunny Gho
January 21, 2012Nearly all of the DC New 52 books usually begin with an origin statement somewhere in the early pages to familiarize the readers with the character(s) in case the read is a first-time experience. I’ve gotten used to them, as well as the intro blocks above characters in group books that cue the readers in. […]
DEMON KNIGHTS #1 by Paul Cornell, Diogenes Neves, Oclair Albert, and Marcelo Maiolo
December 7, 2011Demon Knights is absolutely the most charming and eye-opening entry in DC Comics’ New 52 ensemble. It’s daring and it’s different, and it doesn’t even focus on the heavyweights in the DC universe. Talk about a radical departure…and it delivers on so many levels. First off, the book isn’t a traditional superhero title. The only […]
ACTION COMICS #1 by Grant Morrison, Rags Morales, and Rick Bryant
November 13, 2011When I first saw the cover of Action Comics #1, I was predisposed to dislike it. I mean, Superman in jeans and work boots? That just looked dorky to me, like nothing I’d ever want to read, yet Grant Morrison delivers a story like no other we’ve ever read about Superman, and it springs from […]
AQUAMAN #1 by Geoff Johns, Ivan Reis & Joe Prado
November 9, 2011Aquaman is probably the most maligned character in the DC Comics universe, but he’s perennially one of my favorites. Can’t be the color scheme of his costume, because it’s one of the most garish ever invented. Maybe it was based on the clownfish? I love the world that Aquaman inhabits. The sea is a wide […]
FLASHPOINT #1 by Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert and Sandra Hope
June 11, 2011With all the hoopla going on about the DC Comics reboot taking place in September, and with the weirdness I’ve been hearing about Flashpoint, I decided I’d better find out what was going on. So I picked up a copy of Flashpoint #1 and settled in for what turns out to be a very trippy […]
DAREDEVIL REBORN #1 by Andy Diggle, Davide Gianfelice, and Matt Hollingsoworth
January 14, 2011Daredevil and Spider-Man have to be neck and neck in a race to see who the most maligned character in the Marvel Comics Universe is. Evidently the writers and powers-that-be lean toward the sadistic when it comes to these two heroes. On one hand, I’d favor Spider-Man as the one who has taken the biggest […]
HAUNT by Robert Kirkman, Todd McFarlane, Ryan Ottley, and Greg Capullo
October 16, 2010Robert Kirkman seems determined to take over the comics world. Based on his latest successes, that could be possible. His comics series The Walking Dead is basically a soap opera with zombies that keeps readers hanging on by their fingernails from month to month, and is now going to be a television series as well […]
FLASH #4 by Geoff Johns and Francis Manapul
August 6, 2010I know we’re getting close to finishing up the current arc of the Flash, but I’m really ready for this one to be over. Over the last issue and one half we’ve been treated to one long chase scene. The action has been pretty good, and the art has been great, but I was really […]
