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Dunno about that. These review threads are a tag-team thing...at least until a very specific point breeds a very long argument.

I like the fact that this breezy pulp story from Garth Ennis makes no reference at all to the larger story of Secret Wars or the Battleworld. So far, this title could stand on its own as a pulp...

Generally speaking, the lack of diversity in team books strikes me as pure laziness, especially after the writers of X-Men proved in 1975 that the right story can put new characters on the map in a...

The humor in this issue did not seem girl-centric to me. The fact that the main action sequence involves flying heroines swatting around a giant shark puts this book closer to nextwave or X-Statix...

Gotta say, I did not expect the first battle in A-Force to be a tongue-in-cheek homage to Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, with a megalodon breaching its way up to cruising altitude, nor did I expect...

I don't see anything especially dangerous in Lepore's New Yorker piece. Her mistakes generally stem from a refusal to get into all the comics community's inside baseball. She picks on the...

Well, the line about Captain America happens down the page from a passage in which the young boy patiently explains to his mother that She-Hulk is not a replacement for the Hulk, and that the female...

The article presents that line as a piece of casual conversation between a ten-year-old and his mother. The point is to show the kind of conversational short-hand that kids use to talk about comics;...

It seems plain enough that the "porn star" crack is hyperbole, especially when Lepore does not seem especially troubled by pornography later in the piece, when she describes the provocative girly...

Very cool. Thanks.

I found this first issue breathless and opaque, a tissue of clever moments and wide-ranging fan-service that struggled to find its own narrative momentum. I admired the gonzo scale and the pacing...

I have no read "The Coldest City" just yet, but "John Wick" was totally fantastic. This will be on the radar.

Scott Summers has not been a humble guy for the last few years. Ever since AvX he has backed away from Xavier's ideal of assimilation and focused on his mutant revolution, operating in secret and...

In a series that will reboot the Marvel universe in a new form, his speech about rebirth was a little on-the-nose. But it was an appropriate climax to the destructive final battle on Earth 616, and...

Again, I don't think that's quite right. It's true that Hickman is more focused on high concepts than interpersonal drama, so that there are fewer designated "character moments" in his stories. But...

This response is making a lot of assumptions about what happens next. We know that the Marvel Universe will continue in a different form, and we know that many familiar characters died in this issue,...

I don't think it's as cut-and-dried as all that. During his time at Marvel, Hickman has gravitated toward characters who pursue their missions at the expense of their human side, people like Reed...

I've been following New Avengers and keeping loose tabs on Hickman's other two Avengers books through Marvel Unlimited, and this was still an unforgiving issue. I can appreciate that Hickman has...

Careful. Don Quixote is a famous character in Spanish literature. Don Koyote is a minor character in Krazy Kat with a joke name (with a "k" because George Herriman shares some ideas about spelling...

It is hard to know what something like this actually means. The publicity surrounding the planning and pre-production of superhero movies means that we find out things about the negotiation process...

Two good movies, counting Slither and Guardians.

It would look disingenuous for the studio to replace McLaren with a man after they made a public to-do about hiring a woman as the director. And if that's the way things go, then the negative...

Bigelow only started making war films in the past few years, with Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, but if you look earlier in her career you find the cartoonish action of Point Break, the...

Is it ever? Marvel and DC have run competing crossovers and event books so many times that the brief respite after the New 52 should not make us forget the annual pissing contest. I just wish that I...

This is the kind of list that fills me with cautious optimism. For me, the great disappointment of the New 52 was how quickly most of the weird books disappeared, leaving behind the usual suspects...