Category Archives: DC
Behold a Delicious Gotham Parody
Granted, there’s really only one joke to a solid Gotham parody, but the fine folks at The Warp Zone nail it with aplomb. My thoughts on Gotham have dropped off since the first episode. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s dumb. But overall it hasn’t really reached any sort of quality. Gotham so far lacks depth and consistency, and that’s not good. But hey, it’s got a whole season, so maybe it’ll go somewhere…
Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 11/8/14
Welcome to my vacation, hencharinos! I get two weeks off a year, and right now I’m at the start of my second, luxuriating at home with zero responsibilities and 100 relaxation points. It’s great! I’m going to kick up my feet, read some good comics, play some video games and hopefully see Big Hero Six before too long. I hear it’s great!
Comics were a little light this week for some reason, and very DC heavy. We’ve got new issues of Gotham Academy and Axis, the latter of which is getting a little better. And Grayson is great and wins Comic Book of the Week!
Dick Grayson: Comics’ Mancake
You can also check out my review of Amazing Spider-Man #9 over at Word of the Nerd. It’s an excellent start to Spider-Verse proper, and I’m really looking forward to that story now.
Comic Reviews: Axis #4, Batman Eternal #31, Gotham Academy #2, and Grayson #4.
The 5th of November Was Yesterday, But…
I love V for Vendetta the movie. I haven’t read the comic, and I’m sure it’s fine, but I love the movie! And Cinema Sins gives it a real thrashing!
And for once, I’m actually kind of pleased with their work. They still count sins for really minor things, but they did a great job this time pointing out flaws in logic, plot and story. Good job, team! And now I’m in the mood to watch V for Vendetta again…
DC Comics is Doing Something Fancy
In the Spring, DC Comics will be moving their corporate offices from New York to California for business reasons (business, business, business, numbers!). For reasons I don’t quite understand, this is going to disrupt comic book production for about two months. Rather than not publish anything, DC is putting together a special weekly event called Convergence, revealed today for the first official time by USA Today.
Convergence is going to be about a bunch of different alternate realities coming together to fight Brainiac and a new villain!
Behold the terror of Random Guy!
How this differs from Multiversity, I don’t know. Marvel is also doing a new Secret Wars event with all of their alternate realities at about the same time. But that’s comics for you.
The plot is that Brianiac has been bottling whole worlds instead of just cities, and in Convergence, he’s going to just smash ’em all together to see what happens. So various versions of a whole bunch of DC characters, from classic, to modern, to alternate, are going to fight…maybe. Or they’ll team up to fight Brainiac, probably.
They’re also going to have to contend with new villain, Telos, which is a pretty terrible name.
I believe there’s going to be a main Convergence mini-series, which will come out weekly, and then a bunch of 2-part tie-in comics to fill the months. Writer Jeff King will be making his comics debut on Convergence, with help from Dan Jurgens and Scott Lobdell, which doesn’t fill me with glee.
Basically, I have no idea what to really think about this event. I’ve been slowly abandoning DC Comics for awhile now, and this event just doesn’t sound very interesting. But I wish them all the luck in the world in pulling it off. Maybe they’ll have some fun and sell some comics!
Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 11/1/14
Happy Day-After-Halloween, henchies! Or better yet, Happy All Saints Day! I wonder if anybody in the world actually celebrates All Saints Day. I know I had to Google it to remember what November 1 was actually called. No worries if you don’t celebrate, but hopefully you have plenty of candy to tide you over.
This week was very light on new comics because it’s a Fifth Wednesday week. Comic publishers usually only plan for 4 Wednesdays a month, so when a fifth week comes along, they usually throw out some minor comics. DC put out a couple of annuals that I didn’t bother to read. But I did pick up All-New X-Men and Batman Eternal.
The week’s crowning jewel, however, is the final issue of Brian Azzarello’s Wonder Woman! He’s been telling one ongoing, epic saga since the start of the New 52, and it all comes to an end with this issue, the Comic Book of the Week!
Meanwhile, Marvel put out the first issue of their new Deathlok series. I wrote a pretty thorough review at Word of the Nerd that you can check out.
Comic Reviews: All-New X-Men #33, Batman Eternal #30 and Wonder Woman #35.
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