CrazyK

February 11, 2012 12:11 am Loeb, to me, is a lot like many high profile creators. He has done GREAT work. "For All Seasons" is my favorite Superman story EVER. And I still swear that Long Halloween is a great- and important- Batman work. But, he has his clunkers. He seems to always be on one end of the extreme, and never in the middle. But, again, a lot of other creators have the same thing happening. Fraction? Some say his stuff is the best out there, but he wrote Fear Itself, too. BMB seems all over the map, too. So, I don't think he is much different than a lot of the big name creators out there. I think, though, in Loeb's case, that his hits were too "mainstream" to be beloved by the Hip, Chic, Cool Crowd, and therefore his defenders are not as staunch and vocal. I'll defend him, though. On top of it all, I have met him a number of times at conventions and at my local shop and he is the nicest guy ever. And he KNOWS COMICS. He is incredibly smart not only in creating properties, but understanding the business of it all, too.

February 11, 2012 12:05 am If only for Superman... To take a character that had not been in any of his own books for more than a year and then have him walking around, talking about how bad everything is... and then pass it off to someone else... was intolerable. His issue with the drug dealers, where Superman tells them "not in this town," insinuating that it was ok in the next town over, was obviously written when he had already checked out. I loved his Marvel stuff, and he got screwed there by editorial mandates wanting his characters that he made more popular (or steady, at least, in the case of Spidey). He has a right to have a beef there, but who doesn't at some point? I think he is a crankier version of Peter David sometimes. PAD seems to get screwed, too, but he accepts it and moves on. JMS wants to point it out and say that his plan was better... and then back off when he gets called out (*cough, cough* Mark Waid's EPIC smack!)...

February 10, 2012 11:59 pm I HATED Chuck Austen! I almost broke my complete run of X-Men (1991) because of his crap!

January 20, 2012 2:42 am I like this book a lot. It's not too "HEAVY" for a book about one of the last surviving members of an entire planet. I think they portrayed her initial confusion really well, and her reaction to those around her seems natural. And Asrar's art is awesome! I've been a big fan since Dynamo 5 and I'm excited to see his work available for a wider audience to see!

January 20, 2012 2:33 am I'm right there with you. As I stated in my review, I only picked this up initially because of March's art. But Winick is writing one of the best pure comic books of the relaunch! I love this book and have both of my friends who go to shop with me on Wednesday hooked as well. And I always try and talk it up when I am on other boards and sites. This book is GREAT!

October 22, 2011 4:40 am Grendel: War Child got me in... and I never wanted to get out. The best of my Grendel experiences? Reading War Child twice in one week... The amazing Devils and Deaths stories by Darko Macan and the late, great Edvin Biukovic ... Reading Four Devils, One Hell and being mesmerized by the intricate story, to reveal the MacGuffin, with a strange hole in it, and wondering "where did that come from?" ... ... and to have that question answered YEARS later in Batman/Grendel II #2! AWESOME!

October 20, 2011 3:39 am Saw this at SDCC before reading a single issue. Once I read vol 1, I was amazed at how many comic issues they put into an hour and pulled it off. It was a good pilot, and it made me want to see more... Shame FOX couldn't cut the "Glee" budget by 1/3 and pay for this. Especially since more Miranda Otto in this world is a good thing!

October 20, 2011 3:31 am Ok, this is not great, and it is not on the right side of the "Good" border, and it is easily the worst of the Marvel Yearly Event books since they started with House Of M, but the book does read better altogether. Don't get me wrong, it's still a mess, with just snippets of important plot points that happen in other books (the Tony Stark storyline particularly), Odin and Spidey and Cap acting completely out of character, and nothing happening between the attack on DC and the release of the mystic weapons to the Avengers... and really, all that build up for ten pages to waste the big bad guy? So, it's still got it's problems and I want it to be over (and I don't get that wish), but I am not abandoning Marvel over it. Especially with Waid's Daredevil and Parker's Thunderbolts being two of the best books in existence right now.

October 20, 2011 3:25 am Joe Quesada saved Marvel from becoming what DC became for the last two years: irrelevant. This is a critical misstep, but the books keep selling, don't they?

October 20, 2011 3:20 am Don't forget that Franklin Richards uses his REALITY ALTERING mutant power to save Ben... But let's a couple of million others, and Bucky, and Thor, and the reader's souls, die in agony... If you aren't going to use his power to save the world, don't remind the reader that he has it!