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Comics: Legends!
The “New 52″ company-wide conceptual reboot that DC Comics pulled off recently has been such a success (both financially and, I grudgingly admit, increasingly creatively as well)(some of the new titles launched back in 2011 are really starting to find their footing, much though I’ll always miss the old standbys they replaced) that transformed the [...]
Comics: The Women of the New 52!
As I’ve made pretty clear by now, I’m not the world’s biggest fan of DC Comics’ company-wide reboot “The New 52.” When it launched a year ago, I thought many of the titles – including some of the most iconic characters in the world (Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, the Justice League, etc.) – were too [...]
Comics: Flagship Teams!
Among this week’s new four-color superhero comics are two flagship team-books, one that I’ve liked intermittently over the decades, and one that I rather inordinately love. The first, Justice League, is set in the present-day and features – in this latest incarnation – a core roster of some of the most famous super-heroes ever created, [...]
Comics: Before Watchmen!
It’s taken me a while to get used to the sight of “Minutemen” on my bedside table. I read it last Wednesday when it came out, the first issue in DC Comics’ new “Before Watchmen” series, in which we get vignettes and adventures of characters made famous in Alan Moore’s now-iconic 1986-87 mini-series “Watchmen.” Of [...]
Comics: A Fine Moment to End the Year!
Tough for anything in the remainder of the year here at Stevereads not to feel anti-climactic after that epic throat-clearing Year End round-up, but I’ve been reminded that we still have plenty of things to cover before 2011 comes to an end in just one week – and I agree! Like comics, for instance. 2011 [...]
Comics! Star Trek and the Legion!
When I think about the current state of four-color superhero comics as 2011 winds to a close, it’s easy to become a bit depressed. DC Comics’ massive re-launch of its entire superhero line is pretty much a take-it-or-leave-it proposition: either you’re able to enjoy their radical revision of characters like Superman and Wonder Woman (not [...]
Comics! Legion Secret Origin #1!
I know I mentioned concentrating on Marvel comics for a while in the deeply depressing aftermath of DC’s “new 52″ offensive (out of which I declare “Batman” and “Aquaman” the winners – which leaves 50 losers), but then last week DC came out with the first issue of a new 6-issue mini-series that either doesn’t [...]
Comics! Superboy’s Legion!
Given my strong disappointment with most of DC Comics’ “New 52″ re-launch, I’m mighty happy the company seems intent on continuing their “DC Comics Presents” line of reprints. As I’ve mentioned before here, these reprints take little issue-runs or noteworthy special issues from DC’s recent past and reprints them in square-bound ‘mini-graphic novels’ for $8 [...]
Comics! A Tale of Two Heroes!
This week concludes the initial spread of DC Comics’ “New 52″ relaunch, and I guess the idea was to finish things off with a bang: the new first issue of “Superman,” written and drawn by comics-demigod George Perez. But the issue itself only underscores everything that’s wrong with the “New 52″ – not only is [...]
Comics! New 52 – Week 3!
This was the first week I actually found myself enjoying “the New 52,” DC Comics’ month-long barrage of first issues designed to relaunch its entire line of comics and re-invent its 80-year-old continuity for the 21st century. And I can’t be precisely sure of the reason why this week sat so much better with me [...]
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