Where imagination runs wild
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.
When they first announced a quasi-sequel to the poorly put-together but brilliantly casted original Suicide Squad movie, I was relieved. The other entire concept of the squad – the expendables of the DC universe, essentially – were too good to
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
I must admit with all the buzz around Matt Wagner’s Trinity when I was younger I expected something a little more along the lines of a reflection upon the relationship between DC’s big three. It is by no means a
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
I must admit I was rather disappointed going through this. While I in no way under normal circumstances find Aquaman or his world boring, I was ready to read something that took what it was dealing with a little more
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
Although the narrative is relatively simplistic – two factions caught in a game brought about by two gambling entities from opposing universes – Kurt Busiek and George Perez‘s JLA/Avengers four-issue miniseries delivers a crossover between the DC and Marvel universe