It's just not quite as engrossing as Alias. It still has a lot of interesting ideas flying around, love a lot of the dialogue, love that Jones is taking charge, and that she's the one who needs to find Cage this time. (He goes missing early on, so it's not quite a spoiler.) It's not that's its...
I wouldn't suggest starting mid-series at this point: the history simply won't make sense. The original X-Men started with Wolverine and all ended up with Cyclops. Laura, aka X-23, is now involved. Having said that, I loved the Purifiers. Or I'm horrified by them, but I did enjoy reading ...
For years comic book writers have been using the X-Men as a metaphor for a persecuted minority group, but in God Loves, Man Kills the idea gets its most ham-fisted treatment. I don't expect subtlety from a superhero comic, but in this story we get images of Charles Xavier crucified and tormented by ...
Genre: Superheroes / Action / Adventure Year Published: 1982 Year Read: 2011 Series: X-Men Publisher: Marvel Comics Early Thoughts: Lately, I have been reading many “X-Men” comics, especially the ones from the 70s and 80s and I have stumbled upon this unique little story. Since I had heard so ...
Astro City captures the sort of awe this superhero fiction lover has felt since being a young kid and watching shows and movies about superheroes. I grew up in the 80s and we had the Christopher Reeve Superman movies, which were huge for that time period. I watched them again a couple of months ag...
Family Album continues Busiek and Ross' exploration of their marvelous creation, Astro City. a dream city set in a dream America set in a dream world, and a loving ode to the classic Golden and Silver Ages of comics. this graphic novel continues the everyman's ground-eye view of a city full of heroe...
I love [b:Marvels|16982|Marvels|Kurt Busiek|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1300165177s/16982.jpg|265304]. It's one of the few graphic novels that I've read over and over, and loved every time. So it's hardly surprising that I also loved Astro City.I think the best and easiest way of desc...
When teenager Brian Kinney comes to the city where superheroes live , he has dreams, those dreams involve superheroes. When he gets a chance he finds that there's mystery involved and his superhero mentor has secrets he's hiding from everyone. It's a story about why and what it means to be a hero ...
So, this finally concludes my borrowed pile of graphic novels. As a result I have become a fan of Kurt Busiek's graphic novel work. His work on [b:Marvels|16982|Marvels|Kurt Busiek|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1300165177s/16982.jpg|265304] is unparalleled in the Marvel Comicverse and his work here i...
i have a favorite fantasy, although it is more of a fantasy world or even a fantasy way of how a big city could look and feel. it is a version of 1940s/50s/early 60s america, but minus the stifling straight whiteness of it all, minus the prejudice and racism and sexism, and definitely minus the atro...
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