james

January 2, 2012 2:46 pm I know it's cheating the page length, but I gotta say Fantastic Four #600. Almost a hundred pages of great art and wonderful Hickman story. It was pricey but I've already read it three times. No better value in single issues last year.

January 13, 2011 6:52 pm I think this story appears in maybe the third Essential Defenders volume. All of this Steve Gerber stuff is really crazy and entertaining. If I recall correctly, another plotline around this time involved Valkyrie being committed to an insane asylum and none of the other Defenders know where she is for a couple issues. 

January 12, 2011 7:35 pm I picked this up because of all the buzz on the book and the prescence of Damian and was not disappointed. A very funny and clever little character study. Loved the two page spread with the crossing guard strung upside down while Batgirl and Robin trade funny banter. Being a standalone tale with a guest artist I don't if it gave me a feel for what the book will always be like, but I enjoyed it enough that I think I'll try the next issue.

December 4, 2010 9:47 pm Beast. My favorite original X-Men character and also one of my favorite Marvel characters of all time.

December 4, 2010 9:42 pm I have two off the top of my head:

SCARLET #1 excited me like no other Bendis comic has in a long time. It was great seeing him dig into a twisty crime story again and I loved all the experimental techniques he used to tell the story. Just awesome stuff.

Amazing Spider-Man # 647 was the finale of the "Brand New Day" rotating creative teams and it was just a great send-off to the whole wild experiment. All of the different writers and artists got in there and it was a blast.

November 21, 2010 3:22 pm The only ones I am reading now are New Avengers and Prime, so I guess it's New Avengers by default. But it's the only one I'm reading for a reason: Immomen's incredibly dynamic art is just page after page of awesome. Bendis is doing his usual good job with these characters as well, although magic is not  my favorite kind of story. I'm glad this arc is over and we're hopefully moving on soon.

November 10, 2009 7:54 pm Somewhere around the end of Secret Invasion, the beginning of Dark Reign, Marvel's story momentum really declined for me. This happened to coincide with the price increases, which doesn't help any? New Avengers has been middling at best the last year and it's costing me more than when it was awesome. Meanwhile, Geoff Johns and Grant Morrison have really propelled DC into some really interesting territory in the last year. The stories that DC is doing in "Blackest Night" and the Batman books feel different from anything we've seen before, but still very classic super-hero stories. I think these sales figures are the result. 

October 29, 2009 6:23 pm

I totally relate, I put off reading it for almost week after getting it because I almost didn't want to close the door on these characters and this story. I kept thinking I should go back and reread everything to make more of an event out of it, but life got in the way (although hopefully I will do this somtime in the future). Finally, I cracked it open and was very happy with it.It's a really satisfying, hopeful ending.

 

July 20, 2009 9:45 pm

Wow, that's cool. First review I ever wrote on the site and it get's highlighted. Thanks Josh!

 

However, there is a missing word in there I would give anything to be able to put in there. "It's not like this has never been done before..."

July 15, 2009 10:22 pm From what he set up in this issues, it seems like Johns is using this series to make a meta-comment on death in comic books (just like he used Infinite Crisis to make a comment on the ret-con). From the way he's set things up, I don't think he's going to use this series for a bunch of cheap resurrections.