This week, Comics Daily's Dynamic Duo bring you lesbianism in Buffy, babysitting in Cable, and the Blitz in our dusted off issue of The Dreaming. We also cast our eyes over Ultimate Spider-Man and The Comic Formerly Known As Adjectiveless X-Men, and speculate over Grant Morrison's plans for the Dark Knight...
And we're back, with another week's worth of comicsy goodness courtesy of sister blog Comics Daily. This week, our main reviews are Mark Millar and John Romita Jr's ultra-violent and hilarious take on "realistic" superheroism Kick Ass, and an issue of Grant Morrison's Batman run in which things finally start to make sense. We also look at Ex Machina and Ultimate Human and James dusts off a 1996 Venom miniseries. And in the Sunday Pages, we look at what the end of J. Michael Stracynski's exclusive Marvel deal might mean for DC fans...
Hello there. I'm Seb Patrick. You may remember me and my associate James Hunt from such comics review colums as Panel Beating and Alternate Cover. You know, back when this site actually had comics coverage. Well, we're back. Kind of. You see, we now have a brand new comics review site, Comics Daily, which we're rather happy with; but we didn't want to completely neglect NTS in terms of content. So here's the deal - every Saturday, we're going to post a "digest" of CD content. You'll get our Thursday "headline review" of the week in full, along with snippets of the rest of the week's content, which you can choose to visit and peruse as you please...
This week, the headline review is a gruelling dissection of Jeph Loeb's catastrophic Ultimates 3 #3, while our retro "Dusting Off" series looks at a mid-90s Superman : The Man of Steel. Plus Booster Gold, Hulk and New Avengers...
You may or may not be following the current One More Day arc over in the Spider-Man comics (a review of part 3 in the 4-part story can be found a few posts down on my new comics review blog, Comics Daily) but needless to say, if you were you'd probably have some strong opinions on it. The short of it is that current Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada is attempting to reset the status quo of the character to deal with what has long been seen as a problem - his marriage to Mary Jane. But there's a MAJOR twist just come to light, although one that's decidedly off-the-page...
This is going to kick considerable amounts of arse. The Dark Knight, a superbly-cast Iron Man and Indiana Jones IV out in the same year. 2008, will you just hurry up and get here, please?
Around a year ago, I reviewed Jeffrey Brown's latest collected work, I am going to be Small. At the time, it occurred to me that I should go back and cover his earlier work for a series of reviews, which I felt needed some additional attention.
Clearly I never got around to it, weighted down, as I was at the time, by my commitment to doing weekly comics reviews in Alternate Cover. The Jeff Brown idea never fully went away, though. What I wanted to do never felt like a proper fit for Alternate Cover, and certainly I was interested in doing something a little different (hence my self-imposed battery-charging semi-hiatus from the column). Then, the other day, Phil's recent post on the Oeuvreblog trend got me thinking...
So, I'll assume you've made the logical leap required, and present you with this link to my new blog: Crudely Drawn Naked People: The work of Jeffrey Brown.
I hope you'll check it out, and be back here in a few days for a new Alternate Cover.
Friend of NTS Jamie McKelvie has a new comic coming out in September. It's called Suburban Glamour, and it's clearly going to be rather good. He's already gone on about it a fair bit here, but now, through the medium of brilliant-one-page-advert-strips, let Astrid and Dave give you a bit more info...
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If the fact that it's written and drawn by the creator of a certain comic about Britpop that we all rather like, who also happens to be one of the hottest young artists in the business today, isn't enough to sell it to you; and if you're not yet swayed by the promise of a nice bit of twisted, modern-day urban fantasy, then let me say three words that will surely win you round :
Hot. Punk. Girls.
You know it makes sense.
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