glcfarmboy

January 17, 2012 10:53 am What, no Matrix? The first one wrapped up it's superhero origin story tropes in shiny leather and sci-fi trappings, but damn it was a great superhero origin story nonetheless. Just pretend the sequels never happened....

November 22, 2011 11:36 am I am so looking forward to the Parker Martini Edition! Darwyn Cooke's stuff is always worthy of the jazzy oversized hardcover with whistles and bells treatment, and this will look real purty on my bookshelf right next to the Absolute Edition of New Frontier! So what if I have both books already? This is well worth a "double dip".

November 7, 2011 7:18 pm One of the most satisfying comic book endings I can remember in a long time! This just left me with a great big smile on my face and a good feeling inside. Heath Huston should be remembered as one of the great characters in any kind of fiction in the last decade, and this was a more than fitting send off. Awesome pick, Josh!

November 4, 2011 9:38 pm If you had told the 12 year old me, my life changed forever by the masterpiece that was the Dark Knight Returns, that one day Frank Miller comics would be so bad I wouldn't be caught dead reading them, twelve year old me would have thought you were clinically insane! And yet, here we are! Everything Miller has done since 300 has been nothing short of a travesty. He is pissing all over a medium he claims to love by cranking out unreadable, sloppy crap that looks like it was drawn by a five year old with an Etch-A-Sketch. This is the man whose Daredevil comics have, on more than one occasion, moved me to tears. A man whose every word used to be sheer poetry. Sorry, Frank. I won't be buying this book. I've had enough of being ripped off by a creator I once held on the highest possible regard. It's about time someone told you that this shit isn't good enough. If you want any more of my hard earned cash, you have to at least look like you're making some effort to earn it.

October 27, 2011 10:46 am The text on the I, Vampire cover may actually be the only clue we are getting as to what the hell is going on in that series, if the largely incomprehensible first issue is anything to go by!

October 17, 2011 6:12 pm So looking forward to this! If Capullo really can better his incredible work on the first issue of this title, then really it's a one horse race for my POTW this week. Exciting time for long term Batman fans like me when we have such amazingly high quality titles as this and Batman and Robin on the shelves. We won't talk about 'Tec and Dark Knight, though, eh? Two out of four ain't bad....

September 30, 2011 10:26 am Sorry, everybody, as you might have guessed, this is not my review for Animal Man, which I really enjoyed, but rather for the dreadful Stormwatch, which I pretty much hated! Don't know how these managed to get mixed up, but I'm writing these reviews on my IPhone and I think I've messed up on the navigation buttons somewhere. I can't find any options that let me edit or delete my reviews, or change my ratings if I happen to tap the wrong number of stars by accident! Basically, just remember Animal Man good, Stormwatch bad! I think my real review for Animal Man is still listed below this one in the list of reviews! Glcfarmboy

June 9, 2010 11:31 am

Can't wait for this!

I live in Scotland, 50 miles from the nearest comic shop, so i guess I'll have to wait a little longer!

Chris Sprouse rules!

June 9, 2010 11:27 am

Sorry to be a nit-picker, but Batman 400 was not the first part of Year One, it was a terrific issue written by outgoing bat-scribe Doug Moench, featuring many of the great artists of the day, an interesting intro by Mr Stephen King, and a gorgeous cover by Bill Sienkiewicz. Year One started months later.

I'm enjoying Morrison's run on the character, even though I've been reading Batman comics for 30 years now and still don't have a clue about half the stuff he's shovelling in there!