Doomsday Clock #2
“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
Snyder Gets Even More Meta in Metal #4
Snyder sees the thin divide between awe and awful, between textual and metatextual. Then he burns dow that divide to ashes.
“The Last Jedi” succeeds in surpassing the legends that inspired it
Future generations will cite Episode VIII as “the spark that ignites the fires” of their imaginations.
Klaus and the Crisis in Xmasville
Klaus is Christmas’ Superman, replete with red cape, an indefatigable product of the greatest imagination of our generation, a perfectly designed emblem of highest selves.
Doomsday Clock #1
After years of an admixture of apprehension and anticipation for the inevitable continuation of Watchman, Doomsday Clock #1 does not disappoint.
Justice League is Dumb Fun, for Better and for (mostly) Worse
The film failed to live up to the expectations of the American pantheon sharing the silver screen at long last, and yet there was never a moment I felt anything short of euphoria.
NYCC Friday: ComiXology, Theology, Some Booze, and a Bit of Poison…
I felt the closest thing to love at first sight that the pieces of my long-broken heart are capable of experiencing… in our Dionysian drunkenness we did not realize how rowdy our revelry had been.
NYCC Thursday: Musings on meeting Ta-Nehisis, the Power Rangers, the CBLDF, and more
Despite being poisoned, I still managed to make more of NYCC than absolutely any other convention goer there
Metal #3 pits the Dark Knights vs. The Worlds’ Greatest Detective
Snyder’s thesis is this: Batman would not be made better by having powers; such would prove a crutch, over-reliance on which would cripple Bruce’s brilliance.
Playing the Detective in Dark Nights: Metal #2
Snyder’s sensational storytelling is reward enough, but the chance to crack the case while working alongside the World’s Greatest Detective adds all the more satisfaction.
The Hub City Review 