ckl

ckl

Name: Chris Lewis

Bio: Old enough to know better, but still hooked on DC since 1990 - I had a comics-deprived childhood. Based in Bath, UK. Also into Dr Who.

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Reviews
northlanders50

A good final issue for “The Little Viking Comic That Could”. When this title launched, it was pitted against Ivan…

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Mister Terrific_8_Full

So RIP Mister Terrific, you poor bastard. Your book was perhaps the least loved, least bought of the New 52….

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Justice League_Full_2

Superman & Batman fight! (When did Supes get so tetchy?) Green Lantern & Flash are Best Buds! Cyborgs gets barbecued…

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ckl's Recent Comments
April 30, 2012 4:09 pm Agreed: That run was really the only time I could get into the Legion.
April 23, 2012 4:44 pm Couldn't agree with you more. This and Green Lantern Corps are proper cosmic fun comics!
April 23, 2012 11:23 am The strangest of the Amalgam mash-ups had to be the genius/insanity that was Lobo the Duck...
April 20, 2012 5:11 am I have very fond memories of the Impact Comics version of "The Comet" - when the series got cancelled, they really took the story to some interested and unexpected places.
April 15, 2012 5:45 am Yeah - I would buy that series too!
April 14, 2012 11:11 am I think the most gut-wrenching thing about this title was the profound sense of missed opportunity. I had no feelings or expectations for an OMAC title, or Static Shock, come to think of it. But I like Mister Terrific and I wanted this title to succeed. A superhero with smarts. More heart than Batman, more brains than Superman. Perhaps a cameo from his buddy Dr Midnite... Instead we got an incoherent plot, a poorly realised group of side characters, awful clunky dialogue with way too much 'telling' and not enough 'showing'. And the art was heinous; Michael Holt is supposed to be an Olympic-level decathlete. Instead he looked more like a sack of spuds! I don't know what's planned for the character on Earth-2, but I hope it's a major rethink of what's central to the character, because this series missed by a country mile.
March 5, 2012 1:56 pm There is a reason why the Mercury/Hermes helmet design has lasted two millennia. Just saying...
January 26, 2012 4:28 pm Me neither. But when the DC Old 52 photo competition hits, I'm SO there!
January 16, 2012 1:05 pm Re: Green Arrow. I think Oliver Queen works best as a tragic hero . When he's lost his fortune, screwed up his relationships both personal (e.g. Black Canary, Connor Hawke) and professional (Roy Harper), plays second string in the Playboy/Hero stakes to Bruce Wayne's Batman, and is battered and bruised by some street-level bad guy, there's something heroic when he comes back fighting. So far the New52 version has just come across as a bit of a one dimensional IT whizz-kid and rich brat. No loss, no pain, no tragedy... yet. I only hope the creative team put Oli through the wringer a bit, so we get to see his true hero mettle. PS May I suggest Nicola Scott to draw Battlestar Galactica: her faces would be great, and I'd love to see her draw a squadron of Vipers mid-firefight....
December 8, 2011 3:02 am Awww. Now I have to watch the video to see how cute he really is...