I was, I think, surprised by how much I liked Archie #1, the first issue of the revamped version of the character by Mark Waid, Fiona Staples and an impressively game Archie Comics. (Although, given…
This weekend, for reasons I couldn’t really begin to explain, I found myself reading the Joe Fixit era of The Incredible Hulk in its entirety. For those without long memories, that was the point of…
I have, at various points on the podcast, talked about my love of what I call “trashy” books — that is, quick reads that are like prose popcorn movies, fast-paced and filled with spectacle, if…
Stealing a leaf out of the ol’ Jeff Lester playbook this week, I’m eschewing a longform rant in favor of a trio of quick capsule reviews, which you can find under the jump. Otherwise, scroll…
http://theworkingdraft.com/media/podcasts/BaxterBuildingEp6.mp3 Previously on Baxter Building: After four episodes of build-up, we reached what Jeff and I both agreed was “The Good Stuff” with the fifth episode of the podcast, as Joe Sinnott joined Stan Lee…
The problem, really, is that the name was just asking for trouble. “All-New, All-Different Marvel” is branding that makes sense from a couple of angles — firstly, it teases novelty, which is what people always…
Chalk it up to some kind of comic book Stockholm Syndrome, but reading the main Convergence series made me feel weirdly… not nostalgic, exactly, but curious to re-read The New 52: Futures End, and specifically…
Try as I might, I just don’t get Secret Wars so far. It’s not that I can’t follow the events that are unfolding on the pages of the series, which is currently two issues into…
http://theworkingdraft.com/media/podcasts/BaxterBuildingEp5.mp3 Previously on Baxter Building: Having successfully created the Marvel Universe as we know it with the first four years of Fantastic Four, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s ambitions have apparently only grown with the…
The fourth week of Convergence books from DC is arguably the most mixed yet, devoted to — in theory — golden age titles and related works, but in reality, something altogether different (How else could…
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