albrown's Blog

Grant Morrison returns.  No wait - that's his name, but this gibbering fanfic bullshit can't possibly be him. 

Whoever this jackass is who wrote this book, he think she's being all clever and mod by writing a prose story with illustrations interspersed.  Ooh, no one's ever thought of writing a comic book in prose before.  But I could get past that if it weren't such a terrible, terrible, lame... [view full entry]

There's a new category of supervillains these days - and it's probably Bendis's fault - whom I mentally call "Old-school dudes who exist solely to get the crap beat out of them while heroes talk about their feelings."  Writers dredge these guys up so that they can technically be having a fight, thus weaselling out of the whole "Wah, this comic book is nothing but talking heads" complaint - but there's... [view full entry]

I'm still trying to figure out exactly why I love this series as much as I do.  There's zero "superhero" stuff in it; it's just Mary Jane blushing and screwing up her love life over and over.  And if I was just feeling nostalgic for old, awkward, high-school, secret-identity-having Peter Parker, I could just head over to Ultimate Spider-Man, where it's being done at least as well and there's plenty of "superhero"... [view full entry]

My deep and unabiding love for Matt Fraction and Ed Brubaker is well-established, as is my passion for kung fu characters from the 70s and green footie pajamas, so it should be no surprise that my hopes for the relaunch of the Immortal Iron Fist were sky-high. And before you get too concerned that the series can't possibly live up to my expectations: I'm happy to report that it's just thirteen action-packed pages before my... [view full entry]

Not only is Wonder Woman published too infrequently to follow, it doesn't make a great deal of sense on its own merits.  I'm not sure what's going on here; Allan Heinberg is usually a very competent writer (if incapable of hitting a deadline), and Terry Dodson usually gets the art job done clearly and attractively.  But somehow, something is going terribly wrong with this book.  It's got that jumpy thing that... [view full entry]