Feburary Comic Roundup
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 12:11 pm
Haven't had much to report lately, as I am kind of in the groove in terms of what I've been picking up. Everything's been consistent:
Daredevil: best comic on the market, in my opinion
Powers: still fun, still unpredictable
Green Arrow: not quite sure where the writer is going with the arc, but each individual story in it has been great.
Alias: OK, so my brother gives me a hard time because I consider Affleck to be a good actor. What can I say, the guy played the lead in my favorite movie and has also now played (and did a good job with) my favorite comic character. So when my brother noticed that I had a comic called "Alias," he thought it was a takeoff on the TV show of the same name, which stars the girl who plays Elektra in Daredevil. He thought that I was just gobbling up everything even remotely Affleck related. This is not the case! Alias has nothing to do with that television show. What it is, is an interesting character study of someone who normally never gets their own comic book. In ten years the kids will probably be as surprised that Jessica Jones had her own book like the kids today (I am guessing) would be surprised that Doctor Strange had his. But this is great, consistent stuff.
Black Panther: I probably would have been happier if I had subscribed when the book still had T'challa in it regularly. One theme I hate in comics is when writers think the guy in the suit is disposable. I imagine that Priest was more or less forced into changing his comic around because it wasn't selling well, but you'd think that whoever threw down the edict -- Jemas, Quesada, whoever -- would understand that with VERY few exceptions, we hate it when there's an imposter kicking about in our books. It'd be incredibly bop to put out books called STEVE ROGERS, TONY STARK or BRUCE BANNER. In fact, the Spectacular Spider-Man has (had?) the offical title of "Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man" but "Peter Parker" wasn't in font type anywhere near as large as the rest of the title. T'challa was in the last Black Panther that I got from the store. I hope he continues to be in his own book.
Transformers: I asked to have all the Transformers comics removed from my drop list, but apparently they thought I was kidding or something. The art is great -- the robots have never looked better -- but the Armada line is obviously for kids, and the other monthly comic... I have no idea where it's headed and what it is supposed to be about. I've got all the issues for both lines, so maybe I will put them up on eBay or something.
This month's Avengers is apparently a story about the Falcon and quite good. So I guess I'll get that. And in Batman this month, they are doing some Batman versus Superman thing, which I am hoping is different from how it went down in the Dark Knight. Not necessarily in terms of the outcome, as I think "Superman" is a retarded concept, but hopefully something new is brought to the table. We'll see.
Daredevil: best comic on the market, in my opinion
Powers: still fun, still unpredictable
Green Arrow: not quite sure where the writer is going with the arc, but each individual story in it has been great.
Alias: OK, so my brother gives me a hard time because I consider Affleck to be a good actor. What can I say, the guy played the lead in my favorite movie and has also now played (and did a good job with) my favorite comic character. So when my brother noticed that I had a comic called "Alias," he thought it was a takeoff on the TV show of the same name, which stars the girl who plays Elektra in Daredevil. He thought that I was just gobbling up everything even remotely Affleck related. This is not the case! Alias has nothing to do with that television show. What it is, is an interesting character study of someone who normally never gets their own comic book. In ten years the kids will probably be as surprised that Jessica Jones had her own book like the kids today (I am guessing) would be surprised that Doctor Strange had his. But this is great, consistent stuff.
Black Panther: I probably would have been happier if I had subscribed when the book still had T'challa in it regularly. One theme I hate in comics is when writers think the guy in the suit is disposable. I imagine that Priest was more or less forced into changing his comic around because it wasn't selling well, but you'd think that whoever threw down the edict -- Jemas, Quesada, whoever -- would understand that with VERY few exceptions, we hate it when there's an imposter kicking about in our books. It'd be incredibly bop to put out books called STEVE ROGERS, TONY STARK or BRUCE BANNER. In fact, the Spectacular Spider-Man has (had?) the offical title of "Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man" but "Peter Parker" wasn't in font type anywhere near as large as the rest of the title. T'challa was in the last Black Panther that I got from the store. I hope he continues to be in his own book.
Transformers: I asked to have all the Transformers comics removed from my drop list, but apparently they thought I was kidding or something. The art is great -- the robots have never looked better -- but the Armada line is obviously for kids, and the other monthly comic... I have no idea where it's headed and what it is supposed to be about. I've got all the issues for both lines, so maybe I will put them up on eBay or something.
This month's Avengers is apparently a story about the Falcon and quite good. So I guess I'll get that. And in Batman this month, they are doing some Batman versus Superman thing, which I am hoping is different from how it went down in the Dark Knight. Not necessarily in terms of the outcome, as I think "Superman" is a retarded concept, but hopefully something new is brought to the table. We'll see.