I continue my series of reviews on the compilations of the comics series Before Watchmen. This is the third post in my series at The Itinerant Librarian. Excerpt of the review: "I was interested in this volume in part because J. Michael Straczynski was involved; I happen to like his work from Baby...
Now that I've read two volumes of the Before Watchmen series, I've been able to get a pretty good glimpse of what they were trying to do. When I read Before Watchmen: Ozymandias/Crimson Corsair first, I thought that it seemed kind of fruitless to rehash the beginnings of a character that didn't get ...
The second SSOV archive isn't quite as good as the first, but there are still some fun stories here. The tales get a bit formulaic, but are still quite readable even today.
Got this as an ARC copy from netgallery. Should also state never finished The graphic Novel The Watchmen as I got bored and hated the artwork. That being said, I did read enough to understand each character a little. Art is much better in this book than the original. Enjoying the story much better ...
The Punisher has always been, in my eyes, a sort of mix between Batman and Rambo. This story however, focusing on Frank Castle's time spent in the Vietnam War before he was The Punisher, plays out more like a Rambo story than a Batman one. Plus Frank Castle's persona feels more like Captain America ...
It's a good collection, but while the size makes for a fun reading experience early on, eventually it becomes laborious to heft around, making the over-sized format a little impractical. Unless you have a really big coffee table on which to stow it.Also, Aquaman and the entire undersea nation has ca...
Like with all anthologies, the rating is really splitting the difference. Some of the stories here were fantastic, others... not so much.The best stories were The Demon and the Catwoman (Teaming up Catwoman and Etrigan was... unexpected. It ended up being fun, even if Catwoman was largely absent in ...
This is an excellent Archives volume that actually has a few stories that I don't believe have been reprinted anywhere before (the Atom/Flash, Metal Men/Atom and the Flash/Manhunter from Mars team-ups), so it is probably worth it for a collector to grab this book rather than scrounge for those old B...
This book is nuts. I was never too into horror, and never read too many old horror comics... but maybe it was the William Castle film festival that made me realize how much I'd enjoy these, and damn did I ever.Often they're hilariously nonsensical (the cactus story), strangely off-kilter (the one on...
Mostly old sci-fi comics from back in the day when a childish lack of realism and abundance of strange ideas was the norm. Great stuff.Standouts include: Ultra the Multi-Alien, a man who gets hit with four ray guns at once and becomes four different kinds of aliens, with different powers at once.Als...
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