Where imagination runs wild
It is very important, I find, that one maintains a critical distance between what they like and themselves in order to accept that their object of content is not infallible. With this frame of mind, I read through Mike Baron,
This is a weird book. I really wanted to like this book. Wonder Woman, I find, has had an….interesting…. history in DC Comics. Unlike Batman and Superman, there have only been a handful of iconic stories from her entire bibliography.
The greatest Green Arrow stories are those in which he is treated like a modern-day Robin Hood, both a loudmouth political windbag with a gritty manner of dispensing justice as well as a cynical, flamboyant, swashbuckling hero. In an effort
No-one reinvents mythologies like Geoff Johns; to me, by now, it is a given. Out of all of his books, however, the writing in Shazam: The Seven Magic Lands does slip into being blatant in what is being said rather
How do you reinvent a legend? While the origins of Batman have been told ad nauseam with varying degrees of success, Geoff Johns and Gary Frank‘s take on Batman’s lore in Batman: Earth One is perhaps the most “real” of
Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale‘s “Superman For All Seasons” is best described, I believe, as a simple masterpiece. It doesn’t try to be a grand story with sprawling action scenes or a mind-boggling thriller or a deconstruction of the Man
While I normally find Grant Morrison‘s work thoroughly thought-provoking and compelling (and often migraine inducing), the three volumes of Wonder Woman: Earth One proved a much more of a slog to get through, ironically enough. That is not to say
The Earth One initiative by DC Comics is a revamp of familiar characters taking them back to their basic concept and rebuilding them from the ground up. Oftentimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Green Lantern: Earth One is one of
The theme of legacy in Mark Waid’s run on the Flash took front and centre; from the anxiety of leaving the master’s shadow, to growing into one’s own, the run reaches its poetic end in “Chain Lightning”, where Wally West
I don’t usually promote Batman graphic novels as they get quite enough exposure without me trying to. However, this is by far one of my favorite books both as a Batman book as well as Grant Morrison one. Not only