gandalf25

April 4, 2011 12:08 pm

So what's the over/under on the first late issue.  I'm taking #4....and I feel optimistic there.

April 4, 2011 10:03 am So I'm guessing Bucky's going to bite it in Fear Itself then?  Man, they just got the number back on track.  I know it's probably a nitpick, but the constant rebooting is making me nuts.

April 1, 2011 11:58 am Whatever, Flanagan.  Last year it was, Oh I'm leaving iFanboy.  This year you try to serve me the antichrist as an appetizer.  I'm on to you!

December 4, 2010 4:04 am Another great week.  Josh, man, I want to personally thank you for running these down and showcasing them.  I use them as screensavers on my Kindle along with my favorite covers.  Every week there's at least one piece that just knocks me flat.  Bravo, my friend.

December 4, 2010 4:02 am Amazing 625, man if you'd ever told me that a Rhino story would get the most visceral reaction of any book I read in a given year, I'd have been floored.  Second place to Blackest Night 8.  Both super hero books, but at total opposite ends of the emotional spectrum and sterling examples of what the medium can deliver.

August 30, 2010 10:47 am This ends with Dick dead and we all know it.  I think they wrote themselves into a corner and there's nowhere left for Grayson to go.  They can do two Batmans for awhile, but after awhile one will have to go.  Just like the Flash sitch, I don't see Wally living through Flashpoint.  I'd love to be wrong, but there's no way the multiple Batman thing will last very long.

April 19, 2010 2:15 pm

In the last year - Up

At least 25 years old - Empire Strikes Back

February 8, 2010 7:35 pm I have an irrational love of Moon Knight that I have no justification for whatsoever.

November 23, 2009 3:42 pm I couldn't agree more with the book of the month nod.  I've been disappointed in GI JOE for so many years that I just dismissed what seems like the twelfth relaunch since I've started reading again, but are the other titles anywhere near this good?  This was Queen & Country level good and I'm a huge fan of that series.  If anyone is reading the main titles, how does this stack up? 

January 22, 2009 4:16 pm I completely agree that the reason Morrison has become such a lightning rod is that his brand of writing is now at the center of the DCU and this got heated before when his X-Men stuff influenced Marvel (at least the Mutant universe) so heavily that there's a clear X demarcation line between pre and post Morrison.  He's always been this way.  Every project he tackles, he does so with his own style and sometimes it works spectacularly (All-Star Superman) and sometimes it's a horror show.  I agree with those who think RIP was a train wreck.  I've been reading Batman for over 20 years so I have a deep history to draw on with the character but I found the plot to be irrational and impenetrable.  Final Crisis I was more onboard with until the events in #6 which I found so ridiculous that it's soured the entire event.  And that can happen a lot with Morrison and me.  I'll be just blown away by his initial ideas and his set up and then he can't pull it together into a cohesive narrative.  I almost want him to plot things and be paired with someone who can edit it into a strong full story.  I don't think we'll see Morrison's DCU stamp last the way it has in the X universe.  If Batman's death isn't undone in FC 7, it certainly will be in a year or so and what else of his tenure will last?  Not much.  I'll ride it out and hope that Morrison can find projects he can knock out of the park in the future.  He's undoubtedly talented, but he's apparently too big to be edited any more.