StPaulDoug

March 29, 2011 1:07 am Uh, so if I paid for the original issues....and got part of the story ... I have to pay six more bucks to get 30 new pages to see how it ends? That, sadly, is a perfect example of why comics sales are dying. DC, you should be ashamed.

January 28, 2009 10:35 pm Here's my bottom line: Grant Morrison is a talentless hack, and we've been duped again. Sure he hits a homer every once in a great while, BUT SO DID DAVE KINGMAN! I've been reading comics for 40 years, and I know what "good storytelling" is. Final Crisis was not good storytelling. I stuck with this thing for the duration, including buying the Superman 3-D issues. All junk. Morrison laid an egg, pure and simple. He's a hack.

June 15, 2008 12:55 am

Norton was superb in this movie, as was most of the rest of the cast. Tyler, I'm sorry, was a little beefy for me. She looks like she needs to lose about 15 pounds. She didn't wear the extra weight well here. Sorry, but babes in U.S. blockbusters can't be anything less than perfect. That's just the law of the jungle. She also tends to overact. That was really the only negative, though. 

As for the Hulk action scenes, the people who complain about watching CGI for the last 20 minutes may want to ask themselves why they went to the movie in the first place. There's no other way to do it. That's why Lou Ferregno plays the security guard, and not 'ol Salad Head.

One reviewer made a solid point, as well. If Banner wanted to keep his pulse rate low, why did he live in an overcrowded hellhole and work in a greasy, rickety bottling plant just waiting to blow up?

Quibbling over, I agree with lantern4life above, 4.5 stars out of 5. Iron Man gets a 5.

 

Can't wait for Alfred Pennyworth and son next month...

 

 

 

 

 

April 27, 2008 11:54 pm The vastly overrated Grant Morrison is awful. Just awful. Why do I always say that? Because it's true. His plots are so mind-numbingly confusing and pointless, it's maddening. I don't want him on this book right now, and I'm not looking forward to Final Crisis. If I want my head to spin while reading, I'll pick up the federal budget or perhaps some breezy IRS 1040 instructions. Comics are supposed to be fun. This is not fun. In fact, his writing was worse than the art in this issue -- and that's saying something.

February 27, 2008 8:09 pm Agreed. This is a great book. Miller puts the Man in Batman. 

February 27, 2008 7:50 pm Grant Morrison is the most overrated comic book writer in history. The fact that he's on the character I've always liked the most is very painful. I realize he can do good work, but let's face it -- it's been a while. And for the record, his prose Joker story a few months back was a hack job. Terrible. Morrison can't shine Dini's shoes.