Johnathan | October 6, 2011
I always get way too worked up when I’m reviewing something like this as it comes out, so with DC’s September title push I decided to just sit back and wait until the first wave was over until I started spouting my opinions onto the e-webs. And then I got sick and ended up waiting [...]
Johnathan | August 4, 2011
The other day, I was reading some Silver Age comics (natch) and I came across this plot point in Lois Lane No.50, from July 1964. At first I was going to merely point this out and mention that from my experience with people of the generation that Lois would have been sliding through at [...]
Johnathan | July 8, 2011
Not sure why, but I just caught up on some stuff that I bought up to two weeks ago. Well, I’m pretty certain about why I caught up on it (I like comics and thus read them all the time) but why there were about six unread issues from each week remains a mystery. In [...]
Johnathan | June 3, 2011
I bought comics! And now you get to read about them! Flashpoint No. 2 (and about a million miniseries) (DC) Why it’s Here: I’m honestly not sure. Is it because I feel like I should at least make a pass at reviewing DC’s Summer crossover? Because I want to see what kind of tomfoolery [...]
Johnathan | February 18, 2011
Bit of a sparse week for me, comics-wise, so I have but three observations, one per book. Not that I only bought three books, that is. I just have three observations and they’re spread out over three books. Yeah. Young Justice No. 1 – Though I haven’t yet seen the cartoon that this is spun [...]
Johnathan | January 28, 2011
I was absolutely positive that I would write an epically spectacular John Buys Comics last night. I’d read everything (for once), it was a good week full of good comics, I had these little cheesy shortbready things to snack upon… conditions were perfect. Then, disaster: my package from Topatoco arrived and I was powerless to [...]
Johnathan | January 6, 2011
This is going to be intensely abbreviated, as I can imagine that reading my thoughts on comics is beginning to pall. After this, you get a week off. New: Hellboy: the Sleeping and the Dead, which is a two-parter set in 1966 and features Hellboy vs. vampires, one of my favourite situations. This is supposed [...]
Johnathan | January 5, 2011
I will be brief. Here are the new series that wowed me in the dearly departed 2010. Age of Reptiles – Is it wrong that I weigh the amazing panoramic vistas and incredibly rendered herds of multiple dinosaur species and the wordless drama of predator v. prey as highly as the puerile giggles I get [...]
Johnathan | January 3, 2011
Well hell. This has been sitting here as a draft for two days. Pretend that didn’t happen. Yes, everything is shiny and new in 2011 and my hose is abuzz with the sounds of my girlfriend tossing things out to make room for all the junk sweet loot that we were presented with over the [...]
Johnathan | January 2, 2011
As I said, I had an enormous list of potential "Best of" candidates that were ruthlessly whittled down to the top ten that has by now been enshrined in the hearts of nerdlingers everywhere. But why should all of my hard work go to waste, huh? Thus: the runners-up post. First up, a list of [...]