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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A good final issue for “The Little Viking Comic That Could”. When this title launched, it was pitted against Ivan…
Read full review and commentsSo RIP Mister Terrific, you poor bastard. Your book was perhaps the least loved, least bought of the New 52….
Read full review and commentsSuperman & Batman fight! (When did Supes get so tetchy?) Green Lantern & Flash are Best Buds! Cyborgs gets barbecued…
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iFlashback! April 30th, 2003
April 30, 2012 4:09 pm Agreed: That run was really the only time I could get into the Legion.
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GREEN LANTERN: NEW GUARDIANS #8
April 23, 2012 4:44 pm Couldn't agree with you more. This and Green Lantern Corps are proper cosmic fun comics!
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DC Histories: DC Versus Marvel
April 23, 2012 11:23 am The strangest of the Amalgam mash-ups had to be the genius/insanity that was Lobo the Duck...
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INTERVIEW: Ian Flynn on Archie Comics’ NEW CRUSADERS
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.
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MISTER TERRIFIC #8
April 15, 2012 5:45 am Yeah - I would buy that series too!
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MISTER TERRIFIC #8
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.
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Earth 2: The New Jay Garrick Revealed
March 5, 2012 1:56 pm There is a reason why the Mercury/Hermes helmet design has lasted two millennia.
Just saying...
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DEADLINE: Submit Your “Avengers vs. X-Men: Playtime’s Over” Entry By Thursday!
January 26, 2012 4:28 pm Me neither.
But when the DC Old 52 photo competition hits, I'm SO there!
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01.15.2012 – Episode #317 – The Shade #4
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....
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Marvel Live Event: Avengers vs. X-Men
December 8, 2011 3:02 am Awww. Now I have to watch the video to see how cute he really is...
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