Posts Tagged ‘underground’

Comic Run 03-03-10

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Dingo #1
So… was this a tie in to something? I really hope so. The ending was fun, but it pulled so much never before mentioned stuff out of absolutely nowhere in the denouement portion of the story that I don’t know what happened anymore. There was nothing leading up to that talk with his mother. There was very little about his marriage to Darby. There was… not enough. It either needed a couple more issues to flesh out the back story or to cut out those extra dangling strands.

Then again, apparently the guy also wrote Hexed, which is another story that feels like it was just a small section of a larger story that no one was putting out, so I suppose this is normal for him.

Girl Comics #1
It’s a nice idea. An all female art, writing and editing team making a bunch of short comics about the Marvel universe. The trouble is that some of the art doesn’t feel very Marvel, nor do the stories a lot of the time. I would have probably preferred original stories instead, but I suppose when you’re working under the Marvel banner…

God Complex #4
That was cute. In the end, the street comes together and helps each other, Apollo gets to stay Paul after defeating the Medusa, Sophia was of absolutely no consequence at all during the whole issue and it all wrapped up rather nicely. I think I’m done with the series now, though. Something about it tells me that this is a good time to let it end.

Sweet Tooth #7
This is kind of going downhill. The focus is too far split. Glimpses of what’s happening to Gus here, Tom and what he’s doing over there and parts about Tom and his wife while she was still alive overlapping in there too. It’s just too much happening and not enough focus anywhere for the story to bring me in anymore.

Underground #5
So… the guy wanted to open up the cave to tourism. The protagonist didn’t want that and thought the cave was more important than the people in the town. The bad guy is caught and they make it out and whatnot and in the end… they open the cave up to tourism. Okay, fine, whatever.

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A Comic Minute: Underground #1

Monday, December 28th, 2009

As those of you who frequent comic shops weekly may know or will find out when you go in this week, Diamond isn’t shipping comics this week. While there is going to be a new Blackest Night and local indie comic artists are being encouraged to put books out this week, there is no regular shipment.

As such, given that I took November off anyway, I’m doing daily comic minutes until Thursday! Why not Friday? Because I plan on sleeping.

And now, to anything else.

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Comic Run 12-18-09

Friday, December 18th, 2009

The Complete Alice in Wonderland #1
Hey, you know what book I read recently? What book makes this whole story completely dull for me to read now? Yeah. Alice in Wonderland. Why did I bother picking this up?

Forgetless #1
Twitter. Completely unnecessary in this story. Also, the time jumping was not the best thought out thing ever. However, the story itself has left s many holes in it and I’m curious enough that I really want to find out more. The story of a girl who for some reason is hired to kill a guy and her friend who may also be her supervisor and, well, there’s a lot of holes.

Incarnate #3
Well, it was a fun battle. The story had no point to it, there was no conclusion and it shifted genres again for the final issue. The plot was pretty well non-existent and, while it seemed to be trying to set up some dramatic end of the world epicness and survival of the species stuff (And the species was pretty much undefined) with absolutely no payoff. I don’t know what to make of it besides learning not to pick up anything written by someone who is related to someone famous again. Or, at least, not if it costs more than a normal comic.

Incorruptible #1
A super-villain disappears and goes straight. It’s got a bit of Incognito in there, but it’s not grabbing me quite the same as Incognito did. I mean, he sold out his people and burned down all of his money, which his girlfriend (“Jailbait”) for some reason hasn’t moved. Some of this story just doesn’t sit well, but we’ll see.

Marvelous Land of Oz #2
I like that they’re focusing on Pumpkinhead, though why they bothered with making Jack a character when they were just going to ignore him for the latter of the issue is a bit of a mystery. Still, Pumpkinhead and Scarecrow seem to be hitting it off pretty well and it looks to be developing into something pretty cute.

Nomad #4
I love this character. I like how everything ended up and I like that she’s on good terms with the Young Avengers. I like that she finally met with Cap. I like that, despite tragedy, she’s still able to move on with her life without becoming a ball of angst. I like that it’s alluded that her alternate universe self is helping her out. I like that Spider-girl is inexplicably in the background of the last panel despite her being written out of continuity with OMD. I don’t really like that the YA came out of nowhere and left the same way, nor do I particularly like that she’s exposed her secret identity because those two plot threads came out of nowhere and seemed to leave in much the same fashion, but otherwise it was fun!

Underground #4
Wonderful how the environmentalism can still permeate through the fact that you’re being chased by men with guns. Still, it’s an interesting enough look at them running away, I suppose, and the dialogue is relatively fun. It’s just… environmentally conscious. And that bothers me.

Comic Minute:

In case you don’t remember issue 1 of Nomad, here’s a refresher.

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