Mart

Mart

Name: Martin Gray

Bio: I'm a journalist in Edinburgh and fond of police procedural telly, biscuits and musicals. I know far more than any decent person should about My Little Pony, having spent years editing British comic books about them; thankfully I also got to edit reprint titles for such folk as Batman and Superman. And the best bit of that? Chatting to the readers in lettercols - no pleasure in life equals being italicised. I review comics for Comic Buyers Guide and go on at appalling length at my own blog, http://dangermart.blogspot.com/

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Reviews

I enjoyed #1 but this wound up way down the reading pile. Partly, it’s because there were so many other…

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Oh dearie Lord, who signed off on this comic? It’s not even dopily entertaining, it’s just annoyingly bad. It’s part…

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Just read 600 and I’m going to moan again about the art. Why does the very competent Olivier Coipel seem…

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Mart's Recent Comments
February 9, 2012 5:45 pm Travel, if you're reading, I'm sorry about your mother. The best with the new gig. And that goes for all the artists.
February 9, 2012 3:35 pm The fewer characters in a Brian Bendis book, the more I enjoy them, so Fantastic Four when Jonathan Hickman finishes his story could be interesting, but it feels like that's still decades off. So perhaps the X-Men is the best bet, but I agree, make it Adjectiveless or Astonishing. Then cancel the other (surely Adjectiveless lost its USP when the vampire stuff ended - or has it not ended? I never bothered trying it). I'd love to see Alias back, starring the proper, foul-mouthed Jessica Jones. Or a Power Man/Jewel Fist comic!
February 9, 2012 3:13 pm Think so, she's been hanging around in Superboy.
February 9, 2012 3:12 pm And more teens from NOWHERE ...it's getting a bit old.
February 9, 2012 9:30 am Now, I need an X-Men expert. Wolverine's saying Jean Grey died to contain the Phoenix Force. Which she did, I read X-Men #137 at the time. Then the coming of X-Factor changed that and we were told Jean was never the Phoenix, that the Force put her at the bottom of the Hudson River for a few years to heal, while carrying an imprint of her memory and personality. So the Jean that committed suicide was the echo of her personality, rather than actual Jean Grey. Presumably Wolverine knows this. Are Marvel using a 'to all intents and purposes, it was Jean because it believed it was Jean' interpretation? Have things changed again? Or is it something to do with Jean's Grant Morrison death, killed by Magneto-no-it-was-Xorn (does every Jean death get retconned?). There's likely a simple explanation ...
January 27, 2012 4:15 pm Very fair comments from Rian but the question this article really raises for me is: was Wednesday Comics 2 just a rumour, then? I do hope not.
January 20, 2012 11:46 am Better than a Thomas Kincaid ...
January 20, 2012 9:13 am Great stuff! I also liked Red Hood #5 for its composition, execution and contribution to the Good Snow Art genre.
January 20, 2012 9:10 am Interesting times! I don't understand how the wider public are expected to get to know the new brand when it has apparently infinite variations, mind. I do like some of these, but agree with the posters saying it doesn't obviously read as 'DC'.
January 19, 2012 8:03 pm Presumably that's in his head, as the Court supposedly hasn't taken off his mask. Great panel though, you're right. Nice round-up. (And I realise money is nice, but if subscriber opinions count and budgeting allows, please don't accept any more sound ads - I shut one off, a new one appears!)