actualbutt

April 5, 2009 12:34 pm

"Cover Critique"? More like "Cover Gushing"

That said, I totally agree with you on all counts. Especially the MM Cap cover.

April 2, 2009 9:05 am I'm confused by those saying that the violence got old after six pages, and that they're gonna wait for the trade. If you got tired of it that quickly, why would you commit to paying for a trade?

April 2, 2009 8:59 am I just want to see what happens with Hope. I'll actually be picking up X-Force during this, not sure if I'll stick with it after that, but we'll see. And yeah, I'd also like to cast my vote for someone else pencils besides Olivetti.

April 2, 2009 8:53 am

The one thing about JMS's ASM run that I hated was the whole Spider-Totem thing. Doesn't that kind of ruin the point of Spidey being an everyman? I thought the point of power and responsibility was that Peter took the powers he was given by chance and used them to right wrongs. When it was revealed that he was "chosen" by some spider-god because he was destined or whatever, it gets reversed to "With great responsibility, there will also come great power."

Everything else was great storytelling though.

I don't have a problem with "regressing the character 20 years". If Pete's gonna stick around for another 45 years, maybe an "exit point" for the character is the wrong thing.

April 2, 2009 8:35 am So what's the next "Celebratory Special"?

March 30, 2009 1:27 am

Conor, that shelf makes me all tingly inside. And not just because Lost Girls is on it.

Things I have in HC and another format:

Batman Year One

Killing Joke (2 SC printings and 1 HC)

Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League

Marvels

Wolverine Origin

Barry Windsor-Smith's Wolverine Weapon X (which is great in HC since the original story was serialized in Marvel Comics Presents at 8 pages a shot.)

Kitty Pryde and Wolvie miniseries

Nextwave

Ucanny X-Men: Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar Empire

G. Mo's New X-Men Omnibus

Things I have in TPB and in single issues:

American Jesus vol. 1/Chosen

Dark Knight Strikes Again

JLA: Year One

Star Wars: Tag and Bink

X-Men: X-Tinction Agenda

X-Men: X-Cutioner's Song

X-Men: Dream's End

X-Men vs. Apocalypse: The Twelve

March 26, 2009 2:59 pm It was #349! Wow, can't believe I remembered that.

March 26, 2009 2:56 pm Oh shit, I forgot about the Fantastic Four issue where Wolvie, Hulk, Spidey, and I think Ghost Rider (as the New FF) fight Mole Man and a couple million Moloids, and a few of Mole Man's huge-ass monsters. The thing that sticks out to me about that (besides the incredible Art Adams pencils) was one scene where Wolvie and Spidey break some kind of rotating lock on something using Spidey's spidey-sense to cue when Wolvie should jab his claws into the mechanism. I think it was a lock on a case protecting an egg of some kind? If anyone knows the issue I'm talking about, let me know.

March 26, 2009 1:17 pm Good on you Josh, great article. Although, I will always wonder why Bendis doesn't work for DC.

March 26, 2009 12:23 pm

For me it was a reprint of Uncanny X-Men Annual #6 (titled X-Men Vs. Dracula), the Wolverine/Gambit Vicitms miniseries, and Wolverine #50 with the die-cut cover. That scene in the elevator in the beginning was absolutely fantastic. "The cigar aint lit, the scoot aint greasy, and the freight aint my cup of tea. Besides, they're expecting me to take the freight elevator." Wolvie then proceeds to ride his bike up the remaining floors in the stairwell to the roof, then jumps the hog onto the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier. Bad. Ass.

I guess its pretty obvious what the common thread was in my first favorite comics.