Fanboy Fodder 8.5

It’s a week five write-up, so that usually would mean a light week in terms of number of books out, but that wasn’t the case. What is/was the case is half the books purchased could not be read due to my behindness on Civil War. I’ll get around to catching up, hopefully soon because TV and Xbox 360 games are fast approaching to capture my attention from the waning baseball season.

To be honest, I am actually not all that interested in writing about comics from this past week, but I have to keep up with this, so here’s a half-hearted shot for the six books I did read. I did have a hard time choosing between running the cover for X-Men or All-Star Superman, so I went with both, but Supes at the top since I ran an X-book last week.

All-Star Superman #5 Holy crap Batman! The Superman book has actually taken the lead in the shipping schedule despite debuting at least a month after the Batbook. According to Jim Lee, it’s all his fault and not Frank Miller’s, but whatever. This is about the excellent Superman book penned by Grant Morrison and penciled by Frank Quitely. I think I mentioned this book in my Superman Returns review because it is... Continue reading »

I, Crisis

I got myself into a bit of a fracas with Jason over at BBn earlier this week — okay, this past weekend — with respect to fanboys. I seem to have found myself bashing the Momma’s basement dwellars when it comes to defending this Summer’s Superman Returns. You can read more about that over on the BBn post, but it did get me thinking on continuity in comics.

Okay, so many of you just read that last sentence and started thinking you might stop reading this particular post. Well, I don’t blame you. If you don’t really have an interest in comic books, then this post probably isn’t for you. If you have an interest in bashing fanboys, then this post might be for you. We’ll see how it goes, but my intention is to quickly review a couple DC Comics mini-series that I read earlier in the week and a few barbs may be tossed at DC fan(boy)s.

It is my intention to start writing more about comics, but I promise not to do so more than once a week. Heh, yeah, that’s exciting you, right? No, I thought not, but I would like to do quick reviews of the stuff I read in a given week. Not sure how long that will last either because I te... Continue reading »

Superman Returns

I am having a hard time deciding how I want to write this up, so I’m just going to start writing and see what happens. I have stated before that I don’t care if I spoil things without warning or not in my reviews, but I actually gave it a thought while watching Superman Returns. On one hand, I want to throw out what I thought about everything, but that means spoilers. On the other, I want to preserve the experience for anyone who has not yet seen the film.

Okay, after writing that first, it seems obvious what I have to do… spoil everything, but I’ll at least warn you. Yeah, I think you are down with that and I’ll try to keep the spoilage towards the end so that you aren’t just reading this fluff at the top.

Whoa, wait… speaking of fluff — allow me a quick tangent — I found a number of interesting Superman posters while googling for the lead in teaser poster image. I ended up going with the teaser, like I also did with X3, because I like it better than the release poster. Not that it is all that bad, but then I had to decide if I wanted to use the international release poster or even the outdoor/bus poster. Then I fou... Continue reading »

DC MMO Announced

Although, I thought it was MMORPG, but since I have never played one, I guess I have no idea. I may play this one though since Jim Lee is attached to it. Marvel already has one in the works for the Xbox 360, so I am more inclined to play that over a DC game. Both would be cool if you could play with the few PC gamers left too.