{"id":3695,"date":"2002-10-04T22:33:14","date_gmt":"2002-10-05T03:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3695"},"modified":"2002-10-04T22:33:14","modified_gmt":"2002-10-05T03:33:14","slug":"comic_relief_4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/04\/comic_relief_4.html","title":{"rendered":"Comic Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comics reviews (so I can get them off the table).  Woo-hoo!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><i>Flash <\/i>#190 (DC)<\/b><br \/>\nFlash bores me.  That&#8217;s all I can say.  I&#8217;ve been reading this title for years, and I suddenly realized that I really don&#8217;t care all that much about it, so I&#8217;m dropping it.  Geoff Johns&#8217; writing is interesting, but not interestnig enough.  Justianiano&#8217;s art is also fine.  It&#8217;s not a bad title.  Just not worth a monthly outlay of $2.25.<\/p>\n<p><li><b>Alias #15 (Marvel MAX)<\/b><br \/>\nBrian Bendis, among other things, does one thing superbly.  He writes realistic, interesting, and insightful dialog.  Which is why this issue of Alias &#8212; two set pieces of Jessica doing a bodyguard gig with Luke Cage, and Jessica on a blind date with Scott Lang &#8212; is, though simply a non-stop set of dialog, an incredibly realistic, interesting, and insightful issue.  I love this book.<\/p>\n<p><li><b><i>Route 666 <\/i>#4 (CrossGen)<\/b><br \/>\nI predict this will be the first CrossGen book to go belly-up.  There&#8217;s nothing here that hasn&#8217;t been hashed to death in a sozen other strange-supernatural-hoohahs comics &#8212; or <i>Buffy<\/i>, for that matter.   Karl Moline&#8217;s art is pasable.  Tony Bedard&#8217;s writing is decent.  Again, it&#8217;s not that it&#8217;s bad, just that it&#8217;s not worth $2.95\/month.<\/p>\n<p><li><b><i>The Path <\/i>#7 (CrossGen)<\/b><br \/>\nAnother victim.  Ron Marz and Bart Sears are doing a fine job of writing and drawing a very dark, very violent samurai saga.  I&#8217;m just not that interested.<\/p>\n<p><li><b><i>Uncanny X-Men <\/i>#414 (Marvel PG)<\/b><br \/>\nI bought this issue because of Northstar on the cover, and the prospect that he&#8217;s joining the X-crew.  He&#8217;s always been one of my favorite characters, even when some idiot writer decided to make him and his sister fugitive half-fairies (an oddly prescient fate for one of Marvel&#8217;s first characters to come out of the closet).  Chuck Austin is modestly interesting in detailing how Xavier gets the obnoxious Northstar (why is it that mutant super-speedsters in the Marvelverse are such jerks?) to join up.  The art by Sean Phillips is murky and sub-par.  I see nothing here to make me buy another issue.<\/p>\n<p><li><b><i>League of Extraordinary Gentlemen<\/i> Vol 2, #3 (ABC)<\/b><br \/>\nMurderous Martian War Machines and betrayal most foul fill these pages, and it&#8217;s a wonderful romp (though not as wonderful as the cover, which gives some indication of how both the denizens of Toad Hall and the folks through the Looking Glass fared in this world).  Alan Moore is wonderful here, and Kevin O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s art is appropriately quirky.  This would be a good candidate for waiting until the TPB (or HC) collection comes out, but, damn, I want to read each issue as it comes.<\/p>\n<p><li><b><i>Amazing Spiderman <\/i>#486 (45) (Marvel PG)<\/b><br \/>\nJMS and John Romita, Jr., continue to work their magic, as Spidey and Aunt May finally catch up with Mary Jane out in Hollywood, and the two Doc Ocks fight it out.  The whole issue is as good as anything from the heyday of Spidey, but it&#8217;s the very last page that shows the real magic.  Triffic stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comics reviews (so I can get them off the table). Woo-hoo!&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23839,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/18\/purple-prose-and-jessica-jones.html","url_meta":{"origin":3695,"position":0},"title":"Purple Prose and Jessica Jones","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 18-Nov-11 11:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"Having just finished rereading the books, I'm very excited about an Alias ... er, aka Jessica Jones TV series, and the writer here seems to have a good grasp on the character (though I'm filled with cognitive dissonance about her also writing the newest Twilight movie and for Dexter ...).Less\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":136877,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/08\/the-new-jessica-jones-comi.html","url_meta":{"origin":3695,"position":1},"title":"The new &#8220;Jessica Jones&#8221; comi","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Aug-18 5:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/18965459\/status\/1027339863337578496 @PHenry1991 @79SemiFinalist @MattiaIulis Completely agree -- Jessica\/Alias is a title\/character I've long loved, and this is a fully worthy passing on of the baton.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23252,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/30\/dave-does-the-comics-issue-16-30-oct-2011.html","url_meta":{"origin":3695,"position":2},"title":"***Dave Does the Comics &#8211; Issue 16 (30 Oct 2011)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 30-Oct-11 4:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Another week, another bucket o' comic books to review. \u00a0Lots of good news for Marvel, ratings-wise; not so good for the end of the second month of DC's New 52. 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