CBF Quick Picks #30 : American Vampire #5 / Action Comics #891
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We’re a few days removed from Comic Con, but that didn’t stop the comic book goodness from coming this past week. First DC put out probably their best animated effort yet in Batman Under the Red Hood (my review is here), then they opened the floodgates again with fantastic books. Flash, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman are just a few to name that had potential to take the prize.
In the end though, it was a tie between two superb series. In American Vampire #5, Scott Snyder and Stephen King conclude the adventures of Pearl and her quest for vengeance against her wrong-doers as well as Skinner Sweet’s origin tale. It leads us into very interesting directions that could mean the rise of this new breed of vampire.
Then there is Paul Cornell’s fantastic character study of the Superman hater/wanna-be Lex Luthor in Action Comics #891. His battles with Mister Mind (I realize I called him Master Mind on the podcast – send your hate mail my way, please) are awesome and there are a couple of panels from Pete Woods that make you burst out laughing just at the absurdity of them.
Enjoy the show and let me know what you think of these series so far!
CBF Quick Picks #20: DC Rules The Universe
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There was too much going on in DC land to limit this to one or two books to Quick Picks this week. As much as Return of Bruce Wayne deserved a good amount of hype, I was thoroughly impressed by a bunch of DC offerings. DC is hot right now and I’m glad they’re continuing to build other franchises beyond the Batman and Green Lantern names.
This is not to say that Marvel didn’t have a good week too – just that DC did things one better. Marvel wrapped up Siege and officially began their march into Heroic Age. It was nice that they finally wrapped up all those threads, but my review here on iFanboy can give you some insight as to why I felt it could have done a whole lot more.
Enjoy the podcast!
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 Podcast 11: Blackest Night 4, 5 and Ronnie James Dio
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So we finally get our act together and talk some more about our favorite current topic, Blackest Night. Since we missed so much over the last few weeks, here is our take on issues number 4 and 5.
Have you been reading? (if not, don’t listen to this yet because we drop spoilers like hot potatoes. Mmmm, potatoes.)
Let’s talk about this. What do you think about the story so far? Where do you think it’s going? Geoff Johns has completely drawn me in and I plan to follow Green Lantern from here.
CBF Podcast 9: Blackest Night 2
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Tim and I are back from technical difficulties that plagued us the previous two weeks, and we are all about Blackest Night this podcast. There are spoilers everywhere so you are warned.
We review Blackest Night 2, Green Lantern 44, Blackest Night Superman 1, Blackest Night Batman 1, and a little Tales of the Corps 1.
Zombie Sharks, true believers. Zombie Sharks.
What’s your take on Blackest night so far? Where do you think it’s going?
Enjoy!
CBF Podcast 7: Finally, Blackest Night
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Blackest Night number 1 is out, so this is alll Blackest Night talk. ‘Nuff said. Enjoy!
