Mid-Day Update!
Comments Off | Posted: September 28th, 2007 | Filed under: UncategorizedThanks To: Everyone who commented yesterday. I should mention that I didn’t discuss one of my favorite relaunches of recent years. While it’s not quite a revamp along the same lines as the ones discussed, pal John Rogers’s work (with Giffen and associates) on Blue Beetle is a great example of how to take a legacy title or idea and move forward with it. You could also add the recently-hiatus-having Manhunter to that particular column. The former’s a pitch-perfect all-ages superhero comic and the latter is one of the very few “mature” spandex books that actually lives up to its potential without pandering.
Comics that were much better than expected: Loki by Robert Rodi and Esad Ribic. I can’t imagine how this read in single issues: there’s very little in the way of an arc in any individual chapter, but as an 80-something page graphic novel, it’s a very nice piece of work spotlighting Thor’s most sticky wicket.
Something worth telling your friends and loved ones about: A glorious celebration of the One True Batman Film. There’s icons and userpics for days. Also, Lee Meriwether. Mrawr.
Something I just figured out: Alex Ross’s Superman looks more like a Superman Robot than the “real” superman. At least to me.
A link that’s been everywhere else, but I’m going to put it here anyway: another fever-dream from the mind of Fletcher Hanks. Man alive, I hope we get another collection of his material. You hear me, Paul Karasik? Do you?
