CBF Quick Picks #29 : Brightest Day #6
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In this week’s episode, I touch upon a little bit of The Sixth Gun #2, a book from Oni Press that came out last week but was only able to get recently. This book peeked my interest back on Free Comic Book Day and I looked forward to the day they’d continue the Wild West saga of this mysterious gun. From there, we get into the slim pickings of a week in books what with Comic Con here in full force. Even so, Brightest Day took the prize by putting focus back on its strong sub-plots (No Hawkman!) and teasing some revelations to come. I even give props to Johns and Tomasi for getting me interested in Firestorm again. This makes it all a great set-up for what’s to come with the big reveal behind the purpose of these characters’ resurrections in issue 7. Enjoy the show! |
CBF 2010 Mid-Year Report Card
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We’re days away from San Diego (the comic world in general, not us – we’re glued to our desks playing Pokemon) and I felt it good to review what the 1st half of 2010 brought to us from the lands of Marvel and DC. This site has devoted a lot to DC books as of late, but there are still a few good Marvel showings that came out that weren’t Avenger-related. That being said, we really felt DC gave a lot to the readers from both its superhero and Vertigo imprints. Enjoy the show and all the best to those attending San Diego this year! |
CBF Quick Picks #27 : Action Comics #890
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This week, I sing the praises of Invincible Ultimate Collection 5 first and salute the stellar run Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley are having. Then I make haste and talk about a new arc going on in Action Comics led by Paul Cornell – a name I wish I knew well during his Marvel days writing Captain Britain and MI:13 in the midst of Secret Invasion. It’s a good start and makes Luthor the center of attention in the long-running Superman book. We were wondering when we’d get the follow-up to Luthor’s tenure as an Orange Lantern and it pays off well as Luthor obsesses over the power he once had. Enjoy the show and have a safe 4th! |
CBF 18: More Brightest Day and Thanos
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We’re talking Brightest Day and Tim tells us a bit about Thanos. (Marvel? Really?)
Where do you think Brightest Day is going? I think it’s way too early.
CBF Quick Picks #21 : American Vampire #3
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With Avengers #1 officially kicking off the Heroic Age and Brightest Day #2 once again bringing the Geoff Johns awesomeness, you would think it would come down to these two in the front running for Quick Pick of the week. Then comes along another stellar Vertigo series that re-energizes the vampire mythology. Scott Snyder and Stephen King are amazing in this new portrayal of the popular creature and Rafael Albuquerque has superstar written all over him with the styles he brings to both talented writers. The whole series screams of the theme defiance, both in what the main characters are doing against the traditional European breed of vampire and in what Snyder and King are bringing to the table against the many other TV and movie series that are already portraying them. Enjoy the show and give me your thoughts on the series! |
CBF 17: Let Brightest Day Begin, Graphic.ly
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CBF Quick Picks #16 – The Unwritten Brightest Day of Flash
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Such a tough week to pick one, so I’m breaking the system again…
I’m continually impressed by DC’s offerings – as much as Brightest Day #0 got things rolling off the heels of Blackest Night, Geoff Johns was not content to let one of his other characters he helped rejuvenate in the early 2000′s to sit on the sidelines. If Johns keeps this up, DC will be giving him every character to write and he’ll wish there were 48 hour days to accommodate them.
Not to be outdone, Mike Carey has silently been crafting a masterpiece of Vertigo fiction in Unwritten. This standalone story gives more tidbits as to what Tommy Taylor’s dad’s influence could be having on other stories within the book. And it definitely gets us prepped to jump back into the main storyline next month and see where the Harry Potter wanna-be goes next.
Enjoy my babble!
CBF Quick Picks #14 – Blackest Night #8 (Spoiler-free goodness!)
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Was there really any other choice this week?
I know for sure Mike and I will be talking about this with spoilers soon, so I’m giving you my take in the meantime but without all the trimmings. It’s been a good while since I’ve read a superhero event that ended in a very satisfying way and you have to thank the fine work of Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis for putting everything together (on time too) and making it stick well. Johns especially has become the premier superhero storyteller today that you can consistently count on (we hope that for the future too now that he’s chief creative officer in DC land). And to think the roller coaster ride continues with Brightest Day next month, which is great as well because Blackest Night truly gave us a lot to look forward to with this new series.
Enjoy the podcast!
CBF 15: Holy Sh*t Moments in Blackest Night, Green Lantern, Plus Joe the Barbarian
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Tim and I review and discuss Blackest Night 7 and Green Lantern 50-51. But first a we talk about a great Vertigo mini series, Joe the Barbarian 1 and 2.
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The Brightest Day Arrives
So it looks like DC wasted no time in getting this week started with some new buzz:
DC sold me on two aspects: 1) it’s a bi-weekly series that will run concurrently with the main Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps books and 2) Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi will be writing the series as well. That’s enough to let me know that the characters will have the same voices and that we get to see what the writers have in mind for the post-Blackest Night world of DC. No artists have been announced yet, but I think it’s safe to say that Johns and Tomasi will get the best around as usual.
My only concern is any potential burn-out on Johns’ part because he’s been sending out scripts like a madman as of late, not to mention him now having more creative editorial input on DC books in general. But I have confidence that they’ll juggle this properly for him because Green Lantern has been a gold mine for DC and I’m sure they don’t want to mess that up now.
Click the image to read more about it on DC’s blog.