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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Top 5: Wonder Woman Reboots
April 10, 2012 12:18 pm Flakbait, you star!
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Top 5: Wonder Woman Reboots
April 10, 2012 12:17 pm Psst, Carol, Ali's a goil too! WOO WOO!
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Top 5: Wonder Woman Reboots
April 10, 2012 10:41 am Nice list, Ali. I also love the Diana Prince Wonder Woman series, with the Denny O'Neil issues, in which Diana says at one point that she's not sure she really likes women, being far less enticing than the Mike Sekowsky run. You can't beat this period for showing how well Diana cuts across genres, such as spy, sword and sorcery, myth and superheroics.
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UPDATED: DC Announces NATIONAL COMICS Anthology Series for Cool, Crazy-Obscure Characters
April 9, 2012 5:10 pm I love the idea, whether it's a single series or a bunch of one-shots. Mind, if every issue is $4.99 National Comics is scuppered from the off. @abstractgeek I think people meant the several years pre-Batman, when Brave and Bold was a Showcase-style title.
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New Comics for 04.04.2012 completely forgot what day it was on Sunday
April 2, 2012 7:54 pm ACTION COMICS #8 ANIMAL MAN #8 AVENGERS ACADEMY #28 AVENGERS VS. X-MEN #1 (OF 12) DAREDEVIL #10.1 GREEN ARROW #8 JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL #8 NIGHT FORCE #2 (OF 6) O.M.A.C. #8 STORMWATCH #8 SUPREME #63 SWAMP THING #8 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #683 THUNDERBOLTS #172 WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN #8 The best April Fool's gag was when the BBC's Panorama documentary series fooled an awful lot of viewers with a film 'showing' that spaghetti grows on trees. That was 1957, I swear I wasn't watching,
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Pick of the Week – 03.28.2012 – FF #16
April 1, 2012 2:47 pm Buck, I've been in and out of this Fantastic Four/FF run (the two Inhumans issues are among the most unsatisfying comics I've ever read), and didn't read the last few issues, having ceased to care about Celestials and Grandpa Nathaniel, Uncle Doom, the Four Cities and the rest. So I don't know the nuances of the future Val scene, I simply liked that she could read L'il Val and was such an obvious cow.
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The Best of the Week in Covers – 03.28.2012
March 30, 2012 10:59 am Spot-on selection, Paul. The DD production is simply stunning.
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‘Man of Steel’ Logo Revealed!
March 30, 2012 5:10 am Nolan's producing? Prepare for gloom ... but at least it'll be 'realistic'.
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Pick of the Week – 03.28.2012 – FF #16
March 28, 2012 8:49 pm Good point! I did laugh at Bentley.
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Pick of the Week – 03.28.2012 – FF #16
March 28, 2012 8:25 pm And ... back. Cheers Ron, that was pretty decent. The highlight was future Valeria - chilling. The lowlight - the tweaked uniforms, reading your review I was expecting the blue classics, but instead the ugly white outfits get even wonkier. Oh well, I reckon I got my money's worth.
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