by Adrian J. Watts on April 29, 2013, no comments
Writer: Sean McKeever Art: UDON Publisher: Marvel Comics (Marvel Age) Note: This review covers Sentinel Vol.1 #7-12. Trying to make up for the trouble he caused when using his found Sentinel to scare kids at his school, Juston Seyfert finds himself using his Sentinel to covertly help people, saving a truck driver and later rescuing [...]
by Adrian J. Watts on April 24, 2013, no comments
Writers: Archie Goodwin, Allyn Brodsky and Gerry Conway Pencillers: Various Publisher: Marvel Comics Note: This review covers Iron Man Vol.1 #12-38 and Daredevil Vol.1 #73. This volume does something very good… but in a very bad way. One of the perils of sequential storytelling with a popular character is that you need to make it [...]
by Adrian J. Watts on April 15, 2013, no comments
Written by: Aaron Pope Directed by: Josh Eisenstadt Starring: Lance Henriksen, Tiffany Shepis and Edward Furlong 53 years ago, actress Scarlett May was murdered while doing a screen test for the very prominent Spotlight National Pictures. Her murder was never sold. Now, Spotlight National Pictures is far less successful, making what its head refers to [...]
by Adrian J. Watts on April 2, 2013, no comments
Writer: John Byrne Penciller: John Byrne Publisher: Marvel Comics Note: This review covers Sensational She-Hulk Vol.1 #s 1-8. Wowzer! It’s like Fabian Nicieza and Peter David teamed-up and tried to be the opposite of BENDIS!. Hit the spot at just the right time! Poor Shulkie. She’d had a very unpopular first series, she’d had some moderately-popular involvement in the Avengers and [...]
by Adrian J. Watts on March 20, 2013, no comments
Writer: Fabian Nicieza Artist: Steffano Raffaele Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Note: This review covers the limited series The Blackburne Covenant #s 1-4. I am an enormous fan of Fabian Nicieza. He is the only comic-book writer whose work I will seek out purely because it is his work, so the second I heard of this title I tracked down a copy [...]
by Adrian J. Watts on March 18, 2013, no comments
Writers: Christos Gage (#1) and Jay Faerber (#2) Pencillers: Mahmud Asrar and Carlos Magno (#1) and Adriana Melo and Ramon Perez (#2) Publisher: Marvel Comics Note: This review covers the limited series War of Kings: Warriors #s 1-2. If ever a limited series was a mixed bag… Each issue in this series is broken into two parts, each dealing with a [...]
by Adrian J. Watts on February 10, 2013, no comments
Master of Orion is one of very few games I play again and again. I first played it around 1995 and absolutely fell in love; I’ve played it hundreds of times since then, clocking up thousands and thousands of hours of gameplay – and just yesterday the game threw a new surprise at me, and I’m [...]
by Adrian J. Watts on January 16, 2013, no comments
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis Penciller: Mark Bagley Publisher: Marvel Comics (Ultimate) Note: This TPB collects Ultimate Spider-Man Vol.1 #s 1-7, and was read as an eBook via Google Play Books. That was great. And lousy. Back when Marvel’s Ultimate line first launched, I picked up #s 1-3 of Ultimate Spider-Man in a special collection. I really, really liked those issues. Since then, I had read [...]
by Adrian J. Watts on January 14, 2013, no comments
Writers: Mike Carey and Mark Millar Penciller: Jae Lee Publisher: Marvel Comics (Ultimate) Note: This TPB collects Ultimate Fantastic Four Vol.1 #s 19-20 and Annual #1, and was read in the form of Ultimate Fantastic Four HC Vol.2. This was not good. In fact, it was bad. Very, very bad. We’ll start with the art. All of the characters have flat faces [...]
by Adrian J. Watts on January 13, 2013, no comments
Writer: Sean McKeever Penciller: Mike Norton Publisher: Marvel Comics Note: This review covers the limited series Fear Itself: Youth in Revolt #s 1-6. This is a tough one. The art is lovely and shiny, exactly the sort of art I love for superhero comics. At no stage does the art let us down. It is so, so very pretty. The writing, [...]