It’s been a fair few months since I did one of these comic book reviews… Thunderstrike #2 Marvel Comics Written by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz Art by Ron Frenz and Sal Buscema Six months ago I wrote that Marvel Comics was bringing back Thunderstrike. A spin-off of Thor in the mid-90s, Thunderstrike was aboutContinue reading “On Things I’ve Been Reading”
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On Things I’ve Been Reading
Thor and the Warriors Four Marvel Comics Written by Alex Zalben Art by GuriHiru In my efforts to turn myself into a Thor fan, I recently picked up Marvel’s digest reprint of a mini-series from earlier in the year, Thor and the Warriors Four. Many know the stories of the Thor’s heroic battles alongside theContinue reading “On Things I’ve Been Reading”
On Things I’ve Been Reading
First In Space Written and Illustrated by James Vining Published by Oni Press, April 2007 After the New Year, I was at the local Border’s, then in the midst of their Going-Out-Of-Business sale, and I picked up Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff. I’ve loved the film since I first saw it way back in theContinue reading “On Things I’ve Been Reading”
On National Graphic Novel Writing Month
I’ll bet you didn’t know that October is National Graphic Novel Writing Month. 😎 Glenn Hauman of ComicMix describes NaGraNoWriMo thusly: The goal is simple: By October 31st, you write a script for at least a 48 page long graphic novel. Despite my employment by the comics industry, I’ve never really wanted to write forContinue reading “On National Graphic Novel Writing Month”
On Things I’ve Been Reading
Let’s talk comic books! It’s a rainy day, so why not? 😉 Star Trek: The Official Motion Picture Adaptation #5 IDW Publishing Written by Mike Johnson & Tim Jones, based on the screenplay by Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman Art by David Messina with Claudia Balboni, with inks by Gaetano Carlucci A year after J.J.Continue reading “On Things I’ve Been Reading”
On Marvel Comics’ New Thunderstrike
I mentioned recently, when looking at some Thor comics reading, that Marvel Comics was bringing back early-90s Thor spin-off character Thunderstrike in a new series by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz. Eric Masterson, an architect and single father, was, for a time, Thor. Then he became separated from Thor and Thor became Thor again (no,Continue reading “On Marvel Comics’ New Thunderstrike”
On Things I’ve Been Reading
I have a long-standing habit, I call it the “binge read.” In college, I went on binge reads of Philip K. Dick and Larry Niven and Orson Scott Card and Ernest Hemingway, where I would gather as much of an author’s body of work as I could, and then I would read all of itContinue reading “On Things I’ve Been Reading”
On More Thor Reading
A few weeks ago, I decided to make myself a Thor reader for the simple reason that I should be a Thor fan, so I started reading Walt Simonson’s run on the title, collected handily in five Thor Visionaries: Walt Simonson volumes. But having only the first, and the second not arriving until next week,Continue reading “On More Thor Reading”
On Blue Beetle, the Television Series
Blue Beetle. Yesterday, Geoff Johns posted some images of a live-action screen test of Blue Beetle for a possible television series. Personally, I would like to see a Blue Beetle movie. A super-hero buddy comedy — Blue Beetle and Booster Gold. There’s no reason that superhero movies need to be so serious. I’ve said thisContinue reading “On Blue Beetle, the Television Series”
On Delving into Marvel Comics’ Thor
On paper, I should love Thor. Norse mythology? The Viking age? Absolutely fascinating to me. I’ve read the Volsung Saga, the Poetic Edda, the Greenland and Iceland sagas. I’ve listened to Wagner’s Ring Cycle in its entirety several times (even though I don’t speak a word of German). Northlanders is a comic I look forwardContinue reading “On Delving into Marvel Comics’ Thor”