There's a lot of reasons to love The Omega Men. It's so, so good.
There's a lot of reasons to love The Omega Men. It's so, so good.
I've always said it was the Power Rangers-ification of the GL franchise.
Yeah, on the one hand, she is kind of just a knock-off gimmicky Kenneth but I didn't think she really wore out her welcome and I thought most of her episodes weren't really brought down by her.
Lila is great! Don't forget about her! She's lots of fun!
He and Drax team up with Thanos and Richard Rider inside the Cancerverse. They're forced to fight a group of evil Avengers who want to take the Cosmic Cube from them. For complicated reasons, someone has to stay behind, using the cosmic cube to keep a portal back to the 616 open and Richard decides to sacrifice…
I'm a Daredevil fanatic and yeah, Roulette is probably the strongest issue of the run. It's such a bleak portrait of where Frank Miller leaves Matt, slowly going insane over what he's done and what he's lost, playing a pointless and (pardon the pun) loaded game of death with himself and what he fears he could become.…
Reading it month to month, I wish it had either a recap page or a web of characters and their relationships or statuses because, yeah, it can be easy to confuse which dude is which. That being said, it's still fun to reread the issues to catch up on all the little tricks and feints and doublecrosses everyone is…
The best part about that speech is that Carol doesn't see herself as a bear, a camper, the sleeping bag or even the tent. No, she's the ground. So perfect.
Hazel gets a couple moments that are great, uncut Schaal, mostly her continuously threatening people as if they were her children and the scene in one of the last episodes where she lists all the ways she was "sexually harassed" in the office.
I'm a total sucker for it, but all of Carol's sex scenes are just so funny, mostly for her weird, thematic running dialogues through them. The president and the bear ones make me laugh just thinking about it.
And, what people often forget, is he's been doing it for an incredibly long time. His GL run, which most people love, is loaded with "adult" sexual topics, including telepathic sexual assault, as well as lots of really grautitously gory violence. I think, in the next couple years, Johns will be reevaluated more widely…
Page One is very good and does a very good job showing the day to day troubles of putting together page-after-page of rigorously fact-checked news. My problem has always been that Page One is still like 90 percent an advertisement by the NYT.
I mean, the JLI throws themselves at Despero KNOWING they're going to die. That's the point of being in the Justice League. It's about that purely heroic mindset, that "I don't care what happens to me. I'm going to save them." That's been missing in every issue of Johns' run.
It's a great one.
Really? I guess I like the way a lot of those stories are meant to be an extension of how the characters feel or the things they want and can't act on. It's the purest extension of Claremont's soap-opera-meets-superhero plotting he was doing at the time.
There's really not a whole lot to say about it though that hasn't already been said. The art is incredible, the way Steven Orlando subverts tropes about relationships and being a gay man in America are great and that final page reveal is one of those great head-slapping "how didn't anyone think of using that villain…
Axis is really bad but it's also really forgettable. Like, does it even really matter anymore? It's pretty harmless all things considered.
It's bad but there are a handful I hate much, much worse.
Yeah and it was bad then too. I'd argue it's a little more acceptable in X-Men, a book that has internal conflicts baked right into the series' premise but it's an easy thing to overdo.
Seriously, I cannot imagine Morrison's Justice League or Waid's Justice League or, hell, even Giffen and DeMatteis' Justice League standing around, watching people die and just saying, "Welp, looks like there's nothing we can do here." It's atrocious writing on Johns' part and I can't believe more fans aren't…