The Chairwoman of the JSA
In Mark Waid and Alex Ross'Kingdom Come, an alternate future universe that is partially being folded into the present-day DCU, Kara Zor-L was called Power Woman by her comrades-in-arms. This is Alex...
View ArticleAH! Digs Deeper
There were several things that I found discordant in Adam Hughes' defense of his Mary Jane statue over at newsarama.com. Hughes' argument that our society's presumed over-sensitivity to race/racism is...
View ArticleThe Summer of Supergirl?
The online comic press brought some hopeful news regarding the direction of the Supergirl comic book, which has been going through some considerable growing pains over the past year.Two very heartening...
View ArticleSupergirl #18
When I try to sort out how all the plot elements are supposed to fit together, things get impossibly confusing. So let me just say that Supergirl has been put to the test, and she passed.So spoke the...
View ArticleIn Good Hands
Marvel has announced that Terry Moore will take up writing duties on Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane. This is great news! Although I had actually resigned myself to dropping the book because of the loss of...
View Articleminx 2.0
How Jen Dik Seong Got Her Ki BackMike Carey's Re-Gifters, penciled by Sonny Liew, is an enjoyable read. Although the book is structured around formulaic plot elements and standard character...
View ArticleAmazons Adrift!
I find myself in agreement with Heidi Meeley on the Amazons Attack! cross-over: the pointlessness of the storyline has pretty much drained any possible fun out of this series for me. The utter...
View ArticleIndependence Day, 2007
Alice B. Sheldon published science fiction under the name of James Tiptree, Jr., and I've been enjoying learning about her remarkable life through the recent biography written by Julie Phillips.Sheldon...
View ArticleBirds of Prey #108
Gail Simone's final issue of Birds of Prey crept up on me; I found this comic as satisfying as the recent Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special #1, or Simone's own Villains United Infinite Crisis...
View ArticleGail Simone at the Con
Gail Simone fielded questions about Wonder Woman during various panels at the San Diego Comic Convention; my anticipation for her run on the title has been heightened even further. I've reproduced my...
View ArticleOne Can Hope ...
From Rich Johnston's Lying in the Gutters:Power Girl is to star in her own series, spinning out of "Countdown To Final Crisis."
View ArticleMiss Fury!
This TPB (Pure Imagination Publishing, 2007) is one of my most prized possessions. Tarpe Mills is my hero.Thanks, Trina Robbins!
View ArticleThe Summer of Supergirl, II
The creative team of Tony Bedard and Renato Guedes have pulled off a feat nothing short of miraculous, setting Supergirl on a firm footing after a year or more of meandering, confusing, or just plain...
View ArticleCooke's Power Girl
Dirk Deppey originally posted this cover to the upcoming Comics Journal #285 at his ¡Journalista! blog several weeks ago, and although Darwyn Cooke's magnificent drawing has...
View ArticleThree Reactions
Spoilers follow in abundance.—Catwoman #72To paraphrase Gabriel Garcia Marquez: never was the sundering of a mother-child bond more foretold.Now that the character has been put through a soul-crushing,...
View ArticleLet's Focus on the Positive
Several comics related surprises this week:(1) El Cazador, the adventure series about an early modern female pirate that I have rhapsodized about in the past, came out in a nicely produced trade...
View ArticleThanks, Gail Simone!
Although there's too much on my plate today to allow for a review of Gail Simone's nice first issue as writer on Wonder Woman, I wanted to comment on a particular panel from the book that made my...
View ArticleAttention, Fans of (Miss) Fury!
The Comics Journal #288 includes 30+ color pages by Tarpé Mills, presented by Trina Robbins. The overwhelming majority of the comics reprinted are wonderful Miss Fury strips.The color pages are a...
View ArticleAstro City Character Special: Beautie
I was killing time in the comic store on graduation afternoon, and picked up this comic, several months after it initially went on sale. Although I have never read any of the Astro City series, I...
View ArticleSupergirl #34
After several years of aimless meandering -- a problematic period marred by epically bad story-telling, idiotic plot developments, and some truly terrible characterization and art, this title appears...
View ArticleBad News
Tom DeFalco has made public that the final issue of Spider-Girl will be #30.(Newsarama picked up a posting made by DeFalco at the SG page at the Comic Boards on Sunday.)DeFalco reports that the...
View ArticleLegions!
I have a satisfied smile on my face after reading Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds #2.Geoff Johns nicely brings together plot-lines from across the DCU -- factoids that I rather desultorily absorbed...
View ArticleYou Gotta Have Heart ...
Lame, reference, I know, but I couldn’t resist!It looks like Selina Kyle’s heart is restored to her -- or she gets someone else’s heart, instead, or something ...From the January solicits:BATMAN...
View ArticleCompare + Contrast
Here again is Alex Ross’ wonderful cover for Batman #685:Is this young woman, photographed at the San Diego Comic-Con, Ross’ model for Selina...
View ArticleQuien Es Macho? Carol Danvers Es Macho!
In fact, anyone making their way through Ms. Marvel #32 would have to accept that Carol Danvers esmuchisima macho.Two years ago I wrote a post about X-Factor #5, in which the character Siryn is held...
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