February 2012
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Casanova!
I have, at last, jumped onto the Casanova bandwagon after an extensive recommendation from the sales guy at Forbidden Planet. Pretty excited to tear through the first two volumes I’ve got sitting here, though I do feel somewhat obligated to watch the Knicks game? Relaxation: the new stress.
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Get Him While He's Hot
To celebrate the suspiciously under-reviewed sequel to the almost universally panned 2007 film, ComiXology is currently having a massive Ghost Rider sale. Issues 20-32 of Jason Aaron’s spectacular run can be yours for an appropriately demonic 13 bucks, and I’d really recommend them — or at least, the first storyline, Hell-Bent and Heaven-Bound, though I can’t imagine...
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Problem Child: The Ups and Downs of Peter Tomasi's...
I’ll admit it: moments after cracking open this week’s Batman and Robin #6, which immediately confronts the reader with an image of the young Damian Wayne poised to put a bullet through someone’s head, I was tempted to put the issue down and call the whole thing off altogether.
The moment pays off later, but it’s problematic no matter how you look at it. In the issues...
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… Like it or hate it, I think we do all have to admit that the “Before Watchmen” regurgitation is at least eight million times more interesting than the “Avengers vs. X-Men” one? Shots fired, Marvel.
Also, the Times article about the whole thing is really fantastic. Quotes from Alan Moore and even Jonathan Lethem, to put the whole thing in perspective.
January 2012
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It may be time for me to admit, from this Midtown Starbucks, on my iPhone, that Peter Milligan’s “Justice League Dark” has been Not Very Good.
A look back at the first arc is, perhaps, forthcoming.
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Hey, Neat:
Jack Kirby’s Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth is available on ComiXology for 99 cents per issue. I’m just heaping the goods onto my backlog of late…
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Pick of the Week: Batman #5
As if there was possibly another choice. A spooky, claustrophobic book that set certain corners of the interwebs ablaze this week.
“So shocking and amazing it should come with a warning,” says Comic Book Resources. And that’s probably about right: this is, in fact, a dizzying comic, bound to make readers a bit squeamish thanks to its… unconventional narrative choices....
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ComicsAlliance Design Critique: The New DC Comics... →
Hilarious and informative! I actually mentioned this in the comments field, but I don’t think a company will ever nail the “comic book feel” with their logo like Marvel did in the 1990s:
Comics! Indeed.
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Marvel to reward retailers who order heaps of AvX... →
… With more AvX crap! And the entire arrangement is based around how many copies of Fear Itself #7 the shop ordered way back when.
They might as well rename this event “Shameless,” Wolverine all snikting into Thor’s brains on the first cover, etc.
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Alan Moore Encounters V-Emulating 'Occupy'... →
Genuinely interesting stuff here. Via Comics Alliance:
“It’s a bit surprising when some of the characters you thought you made up suddenly seem to escape into ordinary reality,” said Moore, who visited what Channel 4 characterized as an “anti-capitalist” protest in London. “I’m amazed, I’m very impressed, and I’m rather touched. The people...
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Got 37 Bucks?
If so, it would behoove you to buy all of Grant Morrison’s oh-so-very-excellent New X-Men on ComiXology today. Each issue is on sale for 99 cents. You’ll have a nice weekend.
Frugal fans can still get some bang for their buck, though. Issues #114 - 126 comprise the truly spectacular Cassandra Nova storyline, and #135 - 138 is the legendary Riot at Xavier’s, pretty much the...
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DC's New Mixed Bag
As is already old news on the internets, DC today announced six new titles along with six cancellations.
I could not possibly be more excited for Dial H. It is, down to the cover, pretty much everything I could possibly want in a “superhero” book, I think.
DIAL H – Writer: China Miéville. Artist: Mateus Santoluoco. The first ongoing series from acclaimed novelist China Miéville,...
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Pick of the Week: The Incredible Hulk #4
Something of a grody Frankenstein for the 21st century, Jason Aaron’s Incredible Hulk fast became required reading after its October debut (which, I’ll admit, disappointed me at first). In this relaunch, the seriously, distressingly unhinged Bruce Banner (previously a tormented do-gooder) is matched against a newly independent Hulk who’s been refashioned as a sort of Jesus...
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Joyce Pensato, "Batman Returns" →
I’m definitely going to this. Girlfriend in tow.
Friedrich Petzel Gallery is pleased to announce “Batman Returns,” the third exhibition of new work by the New York-based artist Joyce Pensato…
For this exhibition, Joyce Pensato uses “Batman” as the predominant subject and inspiration for her paintings. “Batman” is a motif that first appeared in Pensato’s drawings as early as the...
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MorrisonCon Is Coming
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A website has been set up for an upcoming event which will be headlined by none other than Grant Morrison. Set to happen in only one weekend during Fall 2012, the con will be presented by Isotope Comics and iFanboy, and will feature nine other “hand picked” creators.
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First New 52 Batman Crossover Is Named "Night of...
Via iFanboy:
DC Comics has announced a series of back-up features launching in April’s Batman #8. The story sheds further light on Scott Snyder’s Court of Owls, now revealed as the major threat in an upcoming crossover event dubbed “Night of the Owls.” Told from the perspective of Alfred’s father Jarvis Pennyworth, the back-up promises more revelations about the Wayne family and their place in...
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Marvel announces fights-only tie-in to "Avengers... →
I can’t decide if this is incomprehensibly stupid, completely fan-savvy, or both, but it seems, in any case, the comic book equivalent to Hershey’s chocolate syrup poured all over the Lucky Charms.
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Programming Note
New features-within-features are coming to Glunders Reads Comics! Be on the lookout for these guys:
The first will be attached to “pick of the week” posts, offering little blurbs on other recommendations. The second will be attached to miscellaneous pieces, offering lengthier blurbs on related content. I already rolled one out on yesterday’s Justice League...
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Notable Drop: Justice League International
The basics: Dan Jurgens (Booster Gold, The Death of Superman) tackles the fan favorite team for DC Comics’ New 52 relaunch. He’s joined by artist Aaron Lopresti, who recently drew the team, pre-reboot, in Justice League: Generation Lost, which was intended to bring the JLI into the post-Brightest Day canon. Despite its enduring popularity thanks to Keith Giffen and J.M....
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New Year, New Theme
I splurged a bit to overhaul the look of Glunders Reads Comics — a new theme for the price of three comics! Man oh man. Hopefully you like the new look. DISQUS comments are now enabled, so you can verbally abuse me if you don’t.
In other news, there are a couple of new feature-y things I’d like to do on this site as 2012 gets underway. Time allowing, I’ll be rolling...
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December 2011
20 posts
Also, we will have a return to insightful posts that don’t involve grotesque splashes of law-enforcing amputees obliterating murderous convicts soon. Honest.
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Leviathan Strikes actually makes every other comic book released this year seem like so much flimsy garbage in retrospect.
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Hey, remember that time DC Comics released a four-page preview of Batman Incorporated: Leviathan Strikes and it was better than 95% of the comics released in all of 2011? I do!
I love that this takes place in the “old” DCU. I love — love! — Chris Burnham’s art. I love that a Batman villain slithers these lines: “The gas you are breathing contains a mind-eroding...
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The first nine pages of the new Batwoman are, in a word, staggering. In two more: utterly perfect.
Everyone — everyone — should be picking this series up. More on it soon.
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12/14 Pull List
Lots of very nice, very red covers from DC tomorrow.
I would totally buy the Frankenstein cover in poster form.
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1,152 pages of "Infinite Crisis"
Collected Editions has spotted an Amazon.com listing for the upcoming “Infinite Crisis Omnibus,” which is apparently coming in at 1,152 pages. One massive hardcover. $150.
It must be said: on its own, Infinite Crisis isn’t really the best story ever. It’s kind of an angry mess, Batman nearly blows a dude’s head off, etc. But it came out at the right time for me and...
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So long, Batwing
Judd Winick’s Batwing, the “Batman of Africa” book, is, perhaps three issues too late, no longer welcome on my pull list.
I mean, okay, the book’s always been of somewhat questionable taste, but issue #4’s foray into, uh, AIDS and military use of children (oh jeez, I know) has really solidified how utterly dumb the entire project is.
Worth noting as a point of...
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March cover and solicit for Batgirl →
Ugh, screw this. Seven issues in and we’ll still be mired in a Killing Joke retrospective? I couldn’t possibly think of a more misguided direction for this series. Of course, I’ve obsessed over this previously.
… Also: “Grotesque”? Barf.
Via dcwomenkickingass:
Adam Hughes’ cover magic is sorely missed. Guess this is the big “reveal” issue on how Batgirl is...
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No matter the occasional gripes I have about the New 52, it must be said: there is no better book on the market right now than Jeff Lemire and Travel Foreman’s Animal Man.
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The Fatal Flaw of the New 52?
The first wave of New 52 #4s rolled out today, and while I’m practically writhing with anticipation when it comes to Animal Man, Swamp Thing, and Action Comics, I can’t quite say the same of some of the other books I picked up: Batwing and Justice League International.
(So why did I buy them? The mind of a comic book reader is laden with mystery, my friends, but mostly because...