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She-Hulk 9 (December 2014)
The trial of Steve Rogers continues and… Soule fumbles it. There’s no other word for how he handles She-Hulk defending Captain America in a civil suit against Daredevil. He fumbles it. Because there’s...
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A Town Called Dragon 2 (October 2014)
How long can Winick go with conversation between interesting towns people and absolutely no story? For 95% of the issue. And he and artist Shaw waste an entire page with the dragon killing a cow. Not...
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Pop 3 (October 2014)
Even though Copland’s art is better than last issue–he gets really dark here and has a nice panel layout for all the talking heads–Pop has sort of, well, popped. Pires spends more time with not just...
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Ragnarök 2 (September 2014)
Why do I even talk? Why do I ever say nice things like Ragnarök isn’t going to be some non-Marvel Thor knock-off? Because I then end up with egg on my face when Simonson does the big reveal this...
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Winterworld 3 (August 2014)
Even with the Guice art and some solid writing in places from Dixon, his approach to Winterworld and its revelations is getting too annoying. The protagonists have found a wonderful refuge from the...
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Point of Impact 1 (October 2012)
Jay Faerber is really excited about Point of Impact, even if one doesn’t read his back matter about his inspirations. The enthusiasm is clear. Unfortunately, he’s enthusiastic about writing a really...
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The Sandman: Master of Dreams 4 (April 1989)
Dream goes to Hell, which requires the Demon as a guest star. Gaiman doesn’t have anything for him to do, past rhyme a little for the protagonist and cause some mischief. It’s a pointless cameo,...
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The Sandman: Master of Dreams 5 (May 1989)
Gaiman’s strings show a little too much this issue. The Justice League guest stars–well, just Martian Manhunter and Mister Miracle. Turns out while Dream was away, someone became a supervillain with...
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The Sandman: Master of Dreams 6 (June 1989)
The issue takes place over a day at a diner. Doctor Destiny is trying to bring about the end of the world and he traps a bunch of people in the diner and slowly drives them mad. Or not slowly. Gaiman...
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The Sandman: Master of Dreams 7 (July 1989)
Ah, the big fight issue. Doctor Destiny versus Dream for control of the Dreamworld. Or whatever it’s called. After the two stand-off in the diner, after some glimpses of the world going mad, Doctor...
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The Sandman: Master of Dreams 8 (August 1989)
Either the reader is going to buy into Gaiman’s setup for this issue or the reader is going to reject it. Even before Gaiman gets into the “meat” of the issue, which is basically a lengthy monologue...
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Judge Dredd 14 (December 1984)
It’s a really weak issue. Both writers–Wagner and Mills–go as melodramatic and sappy as possible. How can Judge Dredd be sappy? For most of the issue, Wagner focuses on Dredd’s sidekick robot, Walter....
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Judge Dredd 23 (September 1985)
From the start, Ezquerra’s art is off. His figures are weak, his composition is worse. Maybe he just burned out on all the war stuff–there are constant empty backgrounds, like he’s trying to do less...
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Bitch Planet 1 (December 2014)
The back matter of Bitch Planet describes a bait and switch in the issue. The person writing said back matter doesn’t use “bait and switch” as a pejorative phrase, just a description. But she is...
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Dredd: Uprise 1 (October 2014)
Reading Uprise, it’s hard to see the point. It’s another sequel comic to the Dredd movie, which isn’t clear–if one doesn’t read that information on the cover–until the judges show up in their movie...
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