Black Widow comics don't often click with me. I've tried a few of her short-lived ongoing series and none appealed until this one. Written by Kelly Thompson and illustrated by Elena Casagrande, this is a story of Natasha Romanoff as I hadn't seen her before, vulnerable and lost to herself but also happy. The first... Continue Reading →
I've enjoyed much of Jason Aaron's Thor run, and for good reason: marked by ambition from the get-go, Aaron aimed to reimagine Thor's place in the Marvel Universe, first by casting aside the titular Odinson, then granting Mjolnir to another--female--Thor, and finally by creating an Old Man Logan-styled All-Father Thor in the most distant future... Continue Reading →
First off, the art in this volume is by and large fine. Props to Villanelli, good work, I enjoyed looking at this book well enough. Sigh. Why do people at Marvel like the bounty hunter cyborg Beilert Valance so much? He's not an interesting character. Stormtrooper who lost more and more of his body until... Continue Reading →
Welcome, friends, to the parenthetics-heavy Tuesday-night review of THE FINAL HOST, hosted by yours truly. Right. I think my years-long affair of self-immolating passion with the works of Jason Aaron has come to an end at last. I read this volume for one reason and one reason only--I knew it would have some bearing on... Continue Reading →
Previous | Next Gah, Salvador Larocca, what did you do with Han's face?! For someone who can draw well, Larocca occasionally gets real weird with the whole...rotoscopic effect? I know rotoscoping is an animation technique and this is illustration, but I can't figure out if there's a different phrase for this. Anyway, Larocca...Han's face get... Continue Reading →
I've been curious about Yoda's Secret War for a while now. Why wouldn't I be? I love me my favourite space frog, that ancient green lad of fine repute. The war itself, alas, is not altogether my cup of tea. Someone must've pointed out the Mad Max/Earthbender nonsense going on here, and if they did,... Continue Reading →
In search of respite from Jason Aaron's 2015-2018 Doctor Strange run, I've at last decided to take once more on the endless, thankless task that is my weekend column, SUNDAY STAR WARS. There will always be some piece of Star Wars media that steals away my attention for forty-five minutes a week, and I like... Continue Reading →
Compared to the previous volume (The Last Days of Magic), Blood in the Aether is a whole lot of fun.* It's a veritable smorgasbord of familiar faces any Strange fan would love to punch--Baron Mordo, Dormammu, Satana, Night-fricking-mare, and of course, last volume's standout baddie, Misery**. Stephen goes through a number of funny scenarios--nightmare in... Continue Reading →
A wizard and a scientist dude walk into a bar. Wanna see a magic trick, asks the wizard. Haha, wizzerd go brrr, says the Empirikul scientist guy. Then he bashes the wizard's brains in.
Previous||Next Target Vader is another one of those comic books I checked out of my local library in search of a topic to write about as part of this weekly column. I love Darth Vader (who doesn't?) and the premise of him being hunted, while a fixed conclusion, can provide for plenty of entertainment, if... Continue Reading →
The Grimoire Reliquary 