For the last several weeks I’ve been madly reading (and rereading) a huge pile of graphic novels and indie comics sent to me to consider in my capacity as an Eisner Awards judge. Some of these are brilliant and some are just weird (to my eyes), but all of them are at least three months old. Reviewing them here would be lame, because I would be so far behind the curve.
Also, and on another note entirely, there are an awful lot of stories that are skillfully and artfully told but completely uninteresting to me. I don’t know why anyone would want to tell these stories. There are critically acclaimed movies that affect me the same way, and they often win all kinds of awards, so I am clearly missing something.
So let’s talk about something else. Superman and Lois Lane are married again!
More than twenty years ago,...
Also, and on another note entirely, there are an awful lot of stories that are skillfully and artfully told but completely uninteresting to me. I don’t know why anyone would want to tell these stories. There are critically acclaimed movies that affect me the same way, and they often win all kinds of awards, so I am clearly missing something.
So let’s talk about something else. Superman and Lois Lane are married again!
More than twenty years ago,...
- 4/14/2017
- by Martha Thomases
- Comicmix.com
For the last several weeks I’ve been madly reading (and rereading) a huge pile of graphic novels and indie comics sent to me to consider in my capacity as an Eisner Awards judge. Some of these are brilliant and some are just weird (to my eyes), but all of them are at least three months old. Reviewing them here would be lame, because I would be so far behind the curve.
Also, and on another note entirely, there are an awful lot of stories that are skillfully and artfully told but completely uninteresting to me. I don’t know why anyone would want to tell these stories. There are critically acclaimed movies that affect me the same way, and they often win all kinds of awards, so I am clearly missing something.
So let’s talk about something else. Superman and Lois Lane are married again!
More than twenty years ago,...
Also, and on another note entirely, there are an awful lot of stories that are skillfully and artfully told but completely uninteresting to me. I don’t know why anyone would want to tell these stories. There are critically acclaimed movies that affect me the same way, and they often win all kinds of awards, so I am clearly missing something.
So let’s talk about something else. Superman and Lois Lane are married again!
More than twenty years ago,...
- 4/14/2017
- by Martha Thomases
- Comicmix.com
We all know the basic tenets of Superman‘s character. He’s the Last Son of Krypton, raised in Smallville, Kansas, works for the Daily Planet, loves Lois Lane, etc. Except sometimes, these things don’t apply.
Just like Batman – as we explored in another list – several comics have played with the Superman character and totally rebooted him from the ground-up, exploring fascinating “what if?” scenarios and dropping him into different environments. From Tarzan Superman to British Superman to Amish Superman (yes, really), it feels like just about every conceivable re-imagining of the character has been attempted at some point.
The latest story arc in Peter Tomasi’s current run in Superman comics is ‘Multiplicity,’ which unites a multitude of Supermen from the Multiverse against a common threat. As it’s a story that celebrates the many reinventions of the Man of Steel that there have been over the years,...
Just like Batman – as we explored in another list – several comics have played with the Superman character and totally rebooted him from the ground-up, exploring fascinating “what if?” scenarios and dropping him into different environments. From Tarzan Superman to British Superman to Amish Superman (yes, really), it feels like just about every conceivable re-imagining of the character has been attempted at some point.
The latest story arc in Peter Tomasi’s current run in Superman comics is ‘Multiplicity,’ which unites a multitude of Supermen from the Multiverse against a common threat. As it’s a story that celebrates the many reinventions of the Man of Steel that there have been over the years,...
- 2/3/2017
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
Comic Book Reviews: DC Comics Round Up Week 09-21-2016
DC Comics brings us a rebirthed Trinity story line starring the big three of the DC Universe-Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman! Although this will be unlike any other “meeting” story between these icons that we’ve seen before. This week also brings us a few stellar books in the Rebirth line up along with solo Raven series (for all you Teen Titans fans).
Aquaman #7
Story: Dan Abnett Art: Scot Eaton, Wayne Faucher
Review: Arthur is still an outlaw according to the Us, he has to contend with all the problems Atlantis is currently facing while trying to discover who is framing his nation for the attacks on the surface world (Hint hint, it’s Nemo now run by Black Manta). All in all it’s safe to say it isn’t easy being King. I think that’s the...
DC Comics brings us a rebirthed Trinity story line starring the big three of the DC Universe-Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman! Although this will be unlike any other “meeting” story between these icons that we’ve seen before. This week also brings us a few stellar books in the Rebirth line up along with solo Raven series (for all you Teen Titans fans).
Aquaman #7
Story: Dan Abnett Art: Scot Eaton, Wayne Faucher
Review: Arthur is still an outlaw according to the Us, he has to contend with all the problems Atlantis is currently facing while trying to discover who is framing his nation for the attacks on the surface world (Hint hint, it’s Nemo now run by Black Manta). All in all it’s safe to say it isn’t easy being King. I think that’s the...
- 9/23/2016
- by Jeremy Scully
- LRMonline.com
Comic Books 101: DC Comics-Reading Batman Pt 2
Previously I wrote an article helping new readers figure out the best places to pick up Batman from DC Comics . For those confused or still uncertain about major events in DC Comics (which connect to various “jumping on” points for Batman) I wrote an article detailing the big company altering stories in my history of the DC Universe article. This time around I am going to open up a bit more on the adventures of The Dark Knight, and take a look at some of the bigger, and in my opinion, best stories for potential Batman readers. This will include small and big story lines that exist in various continuities within the DC Comics publication history for the character. There won’t be any set “this is better than that” to the stories listed, simply moments in the characters publication where a...
Previously I wrote an article helping new readers figure out the best places to pick up Batman from DC Comics . For those confused or still uncertain about major events in DC Comics (which connect to various “jumping on” points for Batman) I wrote an article detailing the big company altering stories in my history of the DC Universe article. This time around I am going to open up a bit more on the adventures of The Dark Knight, and take a look at some of the bigger, and in my opinion, best stories for potential Batman readers. This will include small and big story lines that exist in various continuities within the DC Comics publication history for the character. There won’t be any set “this is better than that” to the stories listed, simply moments in the characters publication where a...
- 9/22/2016
- by Jeremy Scully
- LRMonline.com
Comic Book Reviews: DC Comics Round Up Week 09-07-2016
DC Comics continues having some soft retcons in their Rebirth line up. This time around Cyborg is the center of attention, getting a new creative team and focus. Does it work? Will this be the time for Cyborg to pick up steam with a potential film still looming in the distance? Read on to find out!
Aquaman #6
Story: Dan Abnett Art: Andrew Hennessey, Brad Walker Colors: Gabe Eltaeb
Review: Did someone not inform Dan Abnett this isn’t the same Clark that was introduced when The New 52 first started! This Superman seems very familiar with Arthur, so much so Arthur has no problem airing some of his more insecure issues with Big Blue. The exchange was awkward, and full of weird contradictions that just didn’t make sense for the characters. Superman says he’s not a puppet and he came to talk things out,...
DC Comics continues having some soft retcons in their Rebirth line up. This time around Cyborg is the center of attention, getting a new creative team and focus. Does it work? Will this be the time for Cyborg to pick up steam with a potential film still looming in the distance? Read on to find out!
Aquaman #6
Story: Dan Abnett Art: Andrew Hennessey, Brad Walker Colors: Gabe Eltaeb
Review: Did someone not inform Dan Abnett this isn’t the same Clark that was introduced when The New 52 first started! This Superman seems very familiar with Arthur, so much so Arthur has no problem airing some of his more insecure issues with Big Blue. The exchange was awkward, and full of weird contradictions that just didn’t make sense for the characters. Superman says he’s not a puppet and he came to talk things out,...
- 9/12/2016
- by Jeremy Scully
- LRMonline.com
Synopsis:
Sarah Winchester’s house is always under construction, which is good because the banging of hammers keeps her demons at bay. Her construction crew of vagrants and murderers build, tear down, and rebuild the mansion according to her visions. But now her newest employee, Warren Peck, has brought some demons of his own...
Review:
I think I’m done with this book. I tried, but the art just really throws me out of the story, and even that is awkward and slow moving. It’s hard to tell if we are supposed to believe this is a true story and all the weird red “demon” things are simply an aspect of Sara Winchester’s insanity or if only some people are able to see them now that the drifter who showed up seems to realize they are there, too. Even that is confusing, since the drifter was fine one...
Sarah Winchester’s house is always under construction, which is good because the banging of hammers keeps her demons at bay. Her construction crew of vagrants and murderers build, tear down, and rebuild the mansion according to her visions. But now her newest employee, Warren Peck, has brought some demons of his own...
Review:
I think I’m done with this book. I tried, but the art just really throws me out of the story, and even that is awkward and slow moving. It’s hard to tell if we are supposed to believe this is a true story and all the weird red “demon” things are simply an aspect of Sara Winchester’s insanity or if only some people are able to see them now that the drifter who showed up seems to realize they are there, too. Even that is confusing, since the drifter was fine one...
- 5/13/2016
- by Jeremy Scully
- LRMonline.com
Story By
Peter J. Tomasi
Art By
Ian Bertram
Colors By
Dave Stewart
Cover By
Ian Bertram, Dave Stewart
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Cover Price:
$3.99
Release Date
Apr 13th, 2016
Synopsis:
The Winchester House—famous for its original owner’s bizarre compulsion to incorporate a multitude of architectural curiosities. But as the bereaved Sarah Winchester’s workers toil on stairways to nothing and doors to nowhere, a mysterious stranger arrives . . . and he could make Sarah’s demons all too real.
Review:
I feel like Peter Tomasi was sitting around and thinking “ya know what would be a pretty cool creepy story? The Winchester House” and he’d be right. The story of how the house full of pathways to nowhere and mythical lore that it haunted by the lives the Winchester rifles had taken over the years is a pretty good backdrop for a horror story. But then I think he...
Peter J. Tomasi
Art By
Ian Bertram
Colors By
Dave Stewart
Cover By
Ian Bertram, Dave Stewart
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Cover Price:
$3.99
Release Date
Apr 13th, 2016
Synopsis:
The Winchester House—famous for its original owner’s bizarre compulsion to incorporate a multitude of architectural curiosities. But as the bereaved Sarah Winchester’s workers toil on stairways to nothing and doors to nowhere, a mysterious stranger arrives . . . and he could make Sarah’s demons all too real.
Review:
I feel like Peter Tomasi was sitting around and thinking “ya know what would be a pretty cool creepy story? The Winchester House” and he’d be right. The story of how the house full of pathways to nowhere and mythical lore that it haunted by the lives the Winchester rifles had taken over the years is a pretty good backdrop for a horror story. But then I think he...
- 4/19/2016
- by Jeremy Scully
- LRMonline.com
Halloween was yesterday (if you’re reading this on Sunday); a time of ghosts and ghouls and little children strong arming adults for candy under the threat of “tricks.” Oh, also when the Great Pumpkin rises from a really sincere pumpkin patch to bring toys and presents to good little children all around the world. Or so I have been told.
And, of course, it’s time for ghost stories and horror stories and tales of things that go bump in the night and I’ve told a few of those myself, notably Wasteland. My most successful foray into the genre, though, probably was the run I did on The Spectre with Tom Mandrake for DC Comics back in the 1990s.
The Spectre was an interesting amalgam of both supernatural and superhero. Created in 1940 by Superman creator Jerry Siegel and artist Bernard Baily, the central character was hardnosed plainclothes detective...
And, of course, it’s time for ghost stories and horror stories and tales of things that go bump in the night and I’ve told a few of those myself, notably Wasteland. My most successful foray into the genre, though, probably was the run I did on The Spectre with Tom Mandrake for DC Comics back in the 1990s.
The Spectre was an interesting amalgam of both supernatural and superhero. Created in 1940 by Superman creator Jerry Siegel and artist Bernard Baily, the central character was hardnosed plainclothes detective...
- 11/1/2015
- by John Ostrander
- Comicmix.com
Welcome to the new column “Comics Issues” where two Sound on Sight writers debate a important or controversial comics industry topic. First up, we discuss whether the DC New 52 was a successful initiative or not. Feel free to post your opinion in the comments below.
Pro: “The DC Comics New 52 was successful.”
Overall, I think the New 52 was a successful initiative for DC Comics. The new #1’s attracted a lot of new readers (including yours truly) and made titles like Action Comics and Batman, which seemed inaccessible with issue numbers in the three digits. Speaking of Batman, the New 52 has been a time of creative renaissance for the character and his family of titles from Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s soon to be legendary run on the title to artistically interesting books like Gotham Academy and Grayson. Other highlights of the New 52, include Grant Morrison’s metafictional event comic...
Pro: “The DC Comics New 52 was successful.”
Overall, I think the New 52 was a successful initiative for DC Comics. The new #1’s attracted a lot of new readers (including yours truly) and made titles like Action Comics and Batman, which seemed inaccessible with issue numbers in the three digits. Speaking of Batman, the New 52 has been a time of creative renaissance for the character and his family of titles from Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s soon to be legendary run on the title to artistically interesting books like Gotham Academy and Grayson. Other highlights of the New 52, include Grant Morrison’s metafictional event comic...
- 5/17/2015
- by Staff
- SoundOnSight
Stars: Jason O’Mara, Stuart Allan, Troy Baker, Kevin Conroy, Trevor Devall, Robin Atkin Downes, Griffin Gluck, Grey Griffin, Sean Maher, David McCallum, Jeremy Sisto, ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic | Directed by Jay Oliva
Plot:
Damian Wayne has established himself as Robin, but he and Batman continue to clash over the latter’s rule of not killing criminals. But when he becomes the recruiting target of a criminal secret society called the Court of Owls, the Dynamic Duo face their greatest challenge yet…each other!
Verdict:
Never have I watched a DC animated film and said ‘What?’ every few moments before this one, because Batman vs. Robin in my is view one of their worst offerings (it is just as bad if not worse than Son of Batman and Justice League: War) in recent years. When I first heard the title of this film, I was pretty excited about it because I...
Plot:
Damian Wayne has established himself as Robin, but he and Batman continue to clash over the latter’s rule of not killing criminals. But when he becomes the recruiting target of a criminal secret society called the Court of Owls, the Dynamic Duo face their greatest challenge yet…each other!
Verdict:
Never have I watched a DC animated film and said ‘What?’ every few moments before this one, because Batman vs. Robin in my is view one of their worst offerings (it is just as bad if not worse than Son of Batman and Justice League: War) in recent years. When I first heard the title of this film, I was pretty excited about it because I...
- 4/17/2015
- by ApolloXL5
- Nerdly
DC Comics has announced several new Batman books at New York Comic Con. This being Batman’s 75th anniversary, DC Comics has gone out of its way to make this year a special one for the Dark Knight. At the Empire Stage in the Jacob Javits Center, some of DC’s Batman brain-trust took the stage to discuss where Batman would be going into the next year. DC's Vice President of Marketing John Cunningham opened up the panel, introducing the creators in the panel:
Batman writer Scott Snyder, with artist Greg Capullo
Batman Eternal writer James Tynion IV
Batgirl writers Cameron Stewart and Brendan Fletcher, with artist Babs Tarr
Batwoman writer Marc Andreyko
Batman and Robin writer Peter Tomasi
Detective Comics writer/artists Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato
Bat-editor Mark Doyle.
Snyder and Capullo, who have been working on Batman since September of 2011, just started an arc called Endgame which...
Batman writer Scott Snyder, with artist Greg Capullo
Batman Eternal writer James Tynion IV
Batgirl writers Cameron Stewart and Brendan Fletcher, with artist Babs Tarr
Batwoman writer Marc Andreyko
Batman and Robin writer Peter Tomasi
Detective Comics writer/artists Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato
Bat-editor Mark Doyle.
Snyder and Capullo, who have been working on Batman since September of 2011, just started an arc called Endgame which...
- 10/11/2014
- Uinterview
How does Charles Soule do it? If you ignore the answers provided by the comic writer himself on his personal blog, it is almost impossible to imagine how one man can spread himself so thin across eight different titles between Marvel, DC, and Oni Press. At the moment he currently writes Inhuman, She-Hulk, and Thunderbolts at Marvel, Superman / Wonder Woman, Swamp Thing, and Red Lanterns for DC, and his creator-owned title at Oni called Letter 44. On top of the multiple ongoing series, today marks the release of the first issue of miniseries event The Death of Wolverine.
It looks like Soule will settle down a tad after the announcement in The Hollywood Reporter that Marvel has signed Soule for an exclusive contract. This is good news for Soule as his star continues to rise in the industry.
Sadly though, this means his runs on his DC titles will be ending.
It looks like Soule will settle down a tad after the announcement in The Hollywood Reporter that Marvel has signed Soule for an exclusive contract. This is good news for Soule as his star continues to rise in the industry.
Sadly though, this means his runs on his DC titles will be ending.
- 9/3/2014
- by Max Molinaro
- SoundOnSight
Here’s a look at Ben Affleck’s ‘Batman’ from Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice. The photo first appeared at Comic Con as well as DC Comics website.
Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice stars Henry Cavill, reprising his role as Superman/Clark Kent and Ben Affleck as Batman/Bruce Wayne. The film opens May 6, 2016.
The new image appeared on the Batman 75 Anniversary wall.
Photo - ©Melissa Howland/We Are Movie Geeks
DC Entertainment is hosting all-star panels, can’t-miss events, and exclusive reveals, all to celebrate the milestone 75th anniversary of the world’s most popular Super Hero – DC Comics’ Batman. Celebration highlights include a pair of panels that will bring together a spectacular collection of Batman talent, a once-in-a-lifetime art exhibit, and a rare look at some of the most famous Batman film costumes in history.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment are...
Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice stars Henry Cavill, reprising his role as Superman/Clark Kent and Ben Affleck as Batman/Bruce Wayne. The film opens May 6, 2016.
The new image appeared on the Batman 75 Anniversary wall.
Photo - ©Melissa Howland/We Are Movie Geeks
DC Entertainment is hosting all-star panels, can’t-miss events, and exclusive reveals, all to celebrate the milestone 75th anniversary of the world’s most popular Super Hero – DC Comics’ Batman. Celebration highlights include a pair of panels that will bring together a spectacular collection of Batman talent, a once-in-a-lifetime art exhibit, and a rare look at some of the most famous Batman film costumes in history.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment are...
- 7/24/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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