Well DC has decided to make a Watchmen Prequel. Needless to say this has gotten people riled up. Many believed that Watchmen is a work of art and should never be touched. A few years ago I maybe would have agreed with the same amount of anger as others but now, not so much. Now [...]
Ok, I’ve fallen way behind. And now you know what Mike has known for some time, I’m fucking terrible at meeting self-imposed deadlines. Since I’m so far back most of these are gonna be fairly short. So, here are my week 3 reviews. Just in time for week 4′s releases. Week 2 Holdovers Batwoman #1 [...]
This week, encouraged by the high average quality from the first two weeks of the DCnU I decided to pick up more books this week than before. The results were predictably mixed. Legion Lost #1 is my first foray into Legion of Super-Heroes comics. This being a linewide reboot and all I figured this would [...]
Rather than clog the commentary posts on the comics I thought it would be best to just give these reviews their own blog series unimaginatively titled nU Reviews. So let’s get started. Batgirl #1 finds Babs back on her feet with no explanation yet provided as to how, but oddly enough the main focus of [...]
I definitely have a love/hate relationships with reboots/remakes/revamps. On the one hand it inhibits development of characters people care about and also says to everyone who spent so much time, work, and heart making these stories “sorry not good enough let’s just completely undo all the work you did”. I specially hate how Hollywood treats [...]