Malthusian Superheroics: Chris reviews JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA

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Posted by: Chris Eckert on August 29, 2009

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Fellow Savage David Uzumeri is at the Toronto Fan Expo and he’s liveblogging Marvel and DC’s panels. Friday’s DC panel featured a discussion of recap pages, with Len Wein positing that “we used to work under the theory, which I don’t think is true anymore, that every issue is somebody’s first issue” and Didio affirming his anti-recap-page position. Earlier this year Didio said he thought “the writers should be able to introduce readers to the ongoing story within the issue itself.” Let’s take a look at that then, shall we? Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges and Jesus Merino started a run last month in JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #29. JSA is a book with a sprawling cast of legacy heroes a…  Read More…

Chris Reviews CRY FOR just kidding, Wednesday Comics

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Posted by: Chris Eckert on July 9, 2009

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Wednesday Comics is here, and with it comes nostalgia! No, not for the time before we were born when the Sunday Funnies were enormous canvasses for the geniuses of the day to work their magic. Wednesday Comics instead transports us back to those heady years of 2006-7, when DC was putting out a weekly comic that inspired neither hair-pulling dismay nor polite boredom. Yes, the 52 nostalgia train is boarding! I have always been a sucker for oddly sized comics: even in the midst of trying to pare down my physical collection of comics, I am collecting more huge 1970s Treasury Editions and 1980s Blue Ribbon Digests. This predilection is likely the primary motive for my continued devotion to the…  Read More…

Chris Attempts to Write Capsules

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Posted by: Chris Eckert on April 28, 2009

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Hey, long time no see. I’ve been remiss in picking up single issues of anything lately, and my trade review is being held up until I can rewatch Major League for research purposes, so I grabbed some Big Name Titles off the shelf and attempted to write capsules for them. They turned out more like horsepills. Amazing Spider-Man #592 by Mark Waid & Mike McKone The past two issues’ set-up for “24/7” was goofy in all the wrong ways: dumb science poorly applied to handwave a two month gap that in turn handwaves a bunch of supporting cast developments. Still, as headline-grabbing high concepts go, J. Jonah Jameson: Mayor of New York is a fun one. It’s also nice to…  Read More…

Late to the Welcoming Party: Chris Reviews some Final Issues

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Posted by: Chris Eckert on February 17, 2009

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Hey everybody, why are you packing up the soundsystem? Why are they stacking the chairs? There’s still some helium left in these balloons, and it’s still a holiday weekend in Hawaii — c’mon guys, I just got here! Anyway, hello to all. I’m Chris, and alongside fellow newcomer David I work with the Funnybook Babylon gang. I don’t do a lot of straight reviews for FBB, so bear with me as I try to remember how those work. When I was a youth and had no Internet or collected editions to fall back on, I used to love getting last issues out of quarter bins. Last issues were always jam-packed with Things Happening, as creators scrambled to finish their stories,…  Read More…