Continuing my regular column of comic book top tens, a focus this week on Marvel’s skull-shirted Charles Bronson wannabee.  Inspired by the reference to him in the newspaper headline read by the cabbie in the opening shot of the trailer for the 2010 Avengers cartoon.  A favorite regular comics column that I read, “Comics Should [...]

About the time garth ennis was becoming GARTH ENNIS, he teamed up with a little known female artist named Amanda Conner on a 2002 one-shot graphic novel (emphasis on the word “graphic”) about a hooker who got super powers: A potty mouth chainsmoker with a bad attitude who got her boosts from ingesting jizz.  Only [...]

I’ve been wanting to write about The Boys for a while now, and with the recent rumors that a film version is in the works with either Adam “Anchorman” McKay or Samuel “Nightmare on Elm Street” Bayer as director, this seems like as good a time as any. The Boys is a typically violent, anti-super-hero [...]

// <![CDATA[ // This week, I read the first trade volume of the Power Girl reboot by Gray and Palmiotti (words) and Amanda Conner (art).  I went in to this familiar with the praise the book got, but knowing little else.  I knew Gray by reputation only; had read some gritty, true crime indie work [...]

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I’ve bifurcated my usual discussion of spandex and superpowers into a two-day extravaganza this week.  Please, drop me some comments.  My blog isn’t taken seriously by the comic book blogworld, and I’d like to change that!  I know I’m usually about tunes and funny pictures, but who says a [...]