The comic addiction

Superman: Secret origin

noreply@blogger.com (admin) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:03:00 +0000

I have read only few series of Superman: secret origin because it seems to be repetition and has been done so many times. The work of Grant Morrison’s one page origin is All-Star Superman is very much sufficient for me.
I am not the regular follower of all Superman issues. I missed Kurt Busiek retooling Superman but I have read different series of Superman’s origin. Superman has a long history and we can let it be without “retelling” and “reboot” of the origin.

The art work of Gary Frank in Secret Origin is phenomenal. Clark Kent was good to see acting like Christopher Reeve. This characterization proved to be show stealer. It is to be understood that Secret Origin is tremendously entertaining and their pacing is good in mini-series
While looking at the other side of Secret Origin, I found that there is no any secret in the whole story. Only by careful notification I guess there are only few changes in the new series for just continuity.

Superman will be a good addition for your comic library. But for me- a great fan of Superman issues- it is little bit down to expected level. Except Gary Frank’s marvelous artwork, I think Geoff Johns work has proved better.

Squadron Supreme

noreply@blogger.com (admin) — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:52:00 +0000

Squadron Supreme by Mark Grunewald for me was the best comic book as compared to Watchmen, Identity Crisis, Kingdom Come, and The Authority.
I spend lot of time about discussing heroes and villains with my friends. Squadron Supreme is underrated by its own writer. The reasons for this act are discussed below:
The artwork turns off their fans. Being a standard superhero of the comic book they are not so hot performer. For me, it was an okay story.
For the fans of Squadron Supreme it was hard to believe that the team is an imitation of JLA. The thinking led them to miss a good story.
The subject matter makes them to track between many principled and moral dilemmas. It didn’t cause much problem for regular reader of mini-series, but for modern readers it was difficult to understand the style of plotting, dialogues, art layouts, and captions.

Above all Squadron Supreme is one of the good series of comic books dealing with philosophical queries and social problems. The series covers many political points of today. For very first time I saw Superman as a condescending arrogant pr-ck.
In my opinion Squadron Supreme should get the *****rating in terms of storyline and pleasure.

Watchmen Comic Trade

noreply@blogger.com (admin) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:54:00 +0000

Watchmen by Alan Moore, was published by DC in 1986-1987. The storyline of this comic is full of sex and violence. Being a continuous reader I find every year someone new found there. Moore and Gibbons attempted to deconstruct costumed heroes in Watchmen. In Watchmen we have a vast tapestry of history, symbols, and details.
Dave Gibbons actually deserves the tribute for making Watchmen. Gibbons Watchmen is mistakenly named as “dark and gritty”. His art is really awesome. Characterization of this comic is very nice and beautiful. The heroes are sketched as real tragic anti-heroes. These heroes are unusual who fight from crime. Many of them are specified selfish and always runs behind fame. The most famous character of Moore is Rorschach, who is confirmed immoral at the end of the story. For me he is the hero in first half of the book.

Watchmen, is a detective novel but the main villain is not so easy to figure out. There are few main problems in my opinion. We have the overflow of comics of better quality after Watchmen. Another chief reason is the Younger readers who are unable to get the baseline of the story. The last trouble is the graphic novel which takes lots of time to read. At the end, for me Watchmen is one of the best comic in the comic book series.

The Dark Night Returns

noreply@blogger.com (admin) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:22:00 +0000

The series of Batman, The Dark Knight Returns is one of the most effective, pleasurable, and significant comic book. Being a deconstruction of Batman and super hero comics, it is a compliment to Bruce Wayne and Batman.

DKR was accomplished to be the final story for Batman series and was completely lived up to all hopes. By Time Magazine, it was ranked best in the line of top ten graphic novels. Frank Miller’s style proved to be more innovative and much more revolutionary. Miller’s style became a new standard for other writers.
Dark Knight Return was published later after CRISIS and was continuity to it. It was a masterpiece of Miller and Janson. A full movie can be experienced by reading this graphic novel. DKR is followed by many fans and this is the reason it is in top 10 graphic novels.

Many of the new fans think this novel is overrated as they are new or may be short sighted. As I am a great fan of DKR and can’t listen to these unvalued sayings. I wish one day all of them will realize the goodness of the comic and also its catchy storyline.

After celebrating its silver jubilee still Dark Knight Return is still champion of 2011.

Mark Waid’s Empire Review

noreply@blogger.com (admin) — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:52:00 +0000

Mark Waid’s mini-series was very surprising. I read them three times and every time it holds me up there. In the work of DC and Marvel comics only bad guys won. In this case, Golgoth reins inner circle of warriors through remedy called Eucharist, which endows them enhanced skills.

Empire was a joint venture of Mark Waid and other writers and it was not much doing well. Later Empire was handed over to DC comics and republished as “issue 0”.
The later issues of Empire were fully loaded with action, conspiracy, and strong portrayal of characters. As the war starts with Greenland no one can put down Empire down. The villain Golgoth is a super-villain and can uphold story on its own. He is imprisoning earth’s last hero and remains a ruthless SOB.
Barry Kitson and Waid make a great team together. Kitson is a firm worker who crafts fantastic works. Empire is not alike Vertigo series; it is a bit tame in contrast to work done by Mark Millar or Garth Ennis.

If you are the lover of Mark Waids work of Fantastic Fours, The Flash, Captain America, Impulse, and The Flash, you must read Empire. I am very sure you will fall in love with the series of Empire.

It’s finished: Brightest Day

noreply@blogger.com (admin) — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:10:00 +0000

Brightest Day is an omnibus characterizing 12 resurrected villains and heroes. The characters were pretty excellent in terms of fresh start. Martian Manhunter fought with slanted insane feminine Martian on Mars. Aquaman returned with Queen Meera and enrolled as a new Aqualad. Deadman has perceived his love to Dove and still doing his thing but this time with healthier rationale.

Brightest Day is an epilogue of Darkest Night and their task to merge a cluster of plots to get back life of DC characters. It is big surprise that all the dead characters in DC universe are still alive. Too many hands are involved in artwork and hence not possible to discuss. There are too many dash pages, which appears sometimes extraordinary and other times weak.

Brightest Day is hated by DC fan boys as of no doubt. Though it was disappointing, still the ideas of optimism and social responsibilities were excellent enough. The characters of Brightest Day were saved for some grand reason. Alec Holland and Swamp thing are compliment to Alan Moore and very significant for DC Universe.
As measured an anthology or crossover, Brightest Day was having a good quality story instead of being so acceptable for me.

Green Lantern: Blackest Night

noreply@blogger.com (admin) — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:10:00 +0000

Blackest Night has made to go through all the issues of Green Lantern. I was completely fond of all the GL issues.

The origin of blackest night was meant to be from the 2nd issue of Green Lantern in 1986. The main villain Nekron is another doubtful creature in DC Universe. Nekron is in charge of all dead before judgment day. He is disregarded because heroes of DC are directly departing straight to heaven and villains are intended for hell. Hence it gets little confused that Nekron is superior and controls all the spirits.

Blackest Night is a great event for DC Universe. It has been proven much better than Millennium, Legends, Final Crisis, and Zero Events of your DC Universe. Each issue of it is just like end of world and totally desperate for leading actor.

It has been a great achievement of Geoff Johns and DC for making very significant stories from the chronological archives. These stories would have been sold as a super-hyped-nine-part modernized blockbuster with the help of sub mini-series and crossovers. Geoff Johns very effectively renovated Green Lantern. The version of Origin of the Universe made by Geoff John was much more consistent than Morrison’s as well.

Action Comics

noreply@blogger.com (admin) — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:09:00 +0000

Action Comics is known to be a polestar in the history of comic book collecting market. It was the only comic to hit its own five hundredth issue in the DC history. I have been a regular reader of Action Comics issue and I can say that its 500th issue s really a ***** rated issue.

The most expressive lines comes when a small kid ask about Krypto from Superman. A seen takes us into a flashback story when a dog is kept into rocket on Krypton by Jor-El, and Kar-El is a crying baby. After the recall of Superman he is questioned for Krypto, and he replied by giving an indefinite answer that Krypto is in space. Another fascinating incident is about the love in-between Superman and Super girl.
One more irregular thing about the Action Comic is that it characterizes an ideal Superman replica as formed by Lex Luthor.

Action Comic s 500th issue is known as the last issue of Superman. In 1970’s it was meant to be a huge reserve detained edition by DC. It was not so easy and can’t be affordable by DC. Above all in 2011, DC and Marvel made one-shots, retcon origins and made mini-series.

Koozies For Memorable Reunions www.getkoozies.com

noreply@blogger.com (admin) — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:08:00 +0000

One a year we gather and becomes complete only once a year. During reunions, most if not all of our freinds from various places come to our house and celebrate this very special day! Definitely that certain day should be the most special day of all. Apart from the preparations in terms of food and the place, one thing we should not forget is the souvenirs for each family member during the said gathering.
During the reunion of our clan, I was tasked to be in charge with the souvenirs and there is one souvenir in my mind which I think will make a great impact—that is, through Personalized Koozies. Personalized koozies are excellent as give away gifts to each and every family member. What I did to add a personal touch was to place our clan’s name in the exterior of the personalized koozie and I assigned a different color for each family.
When the time came for giving away these souvenirs, everyone was amazed at how unique the idea was. Every member of the family was provided with a koozie and each one was eager to try these personal koozies and fit them in any canned beverage or bottle. Before the end of the gathering, most family members commended the efforts I exerted in coming up with these personalized koozies.

Action Comics

noreply@blogger.com (admin) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:00:00 +0000

Action Comics is known to be a polestar in the history of comic book collecting market. It was the only comic to hit its own five hundredth issue in the DC history. I have been a regular reader of Action Comics issue and I can say that its 500th issue s really a ***** rated issue.
The most expressive lines comes when a small kid ask about Krypto from Superman. A seen takes us into a flashback story when a dog is kept into rocket on Krypton by Jor-El, and Kar-El is a crying baby. After the recall of Superman he is questioned for Krypto, and he replied by giving an indefinite answer that Krypto is in space. Another fascinating incident is about the love in-between Superman and Super girl.
One more irregular thing about the Action Comic is that it characterizes an ideal Superman replica as formed by Lex Luthor.
Action Comic s 500th issue is known as the last issue of Superman. In 1970’s it was meant to be a huge reserve detained edition by DC. It was not so easy and can’t be affordable by DC. Above all in 2011, DC and Marvel made one-shots, retcon origins and made mini-series.

Final Crisis- Batman

noreply@blogger.com (admin) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:59:00 +0000

Final crisis, the publication of DC Comics completely follows DC Universe. “Batman, RIP” got last month an end and it will change all the advertised surroundings. It was supposed that in mini-series of Final crisis many of the readers expected to get an end, but it was not so with Batman.
According to Grant Morrison, Final Crisis only tells the winning story of evil, but the rebirth of God of Apokolips is seen in human form. One more Female Furies is added as a Wonder Woman.
Final Crisis is not possible to reveal by excluding Batman and RIP. Sixth issue of Final Crisis is scheduled for “Fate of Batman”. The story line is like Battle for the Cowl. After this issue only it can be decided how and what are the necessities of the later issues.
Sixth issue is found to be better than other issues of Final Crisis. Apart from this comic readers are not going to get the final battle of Darkseid and Batman. This is just a “climatic” battle between the two and lasts in just few pages.
Many of the readers even didn’t get closer to the level of Infinite crisis. I found it even more disappointing.

Vingtage or new?

noreply@blogger.com (admin) — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:11:00 +0000

Which era of comics stands out the most? For me it's the early 70's when lots of new characters and comics hit the market. The golden era!

Amazing Spider-Man # 616

noreply@blogger.com (admin) — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:56:00 +0000

This issue of Amazing Spider-Man is written by Fred Van Lente. The story continues with The Gauntlet event. The Gauntlet event in this copy has shocked me for conveying classic stories of spider-man. The art of storytelling and characterization in this issue led me back into pre- 90’s issue of Spider-man. The write took the character of Sandman from the movie Spider-Man 3.

This issue is concerned with the battle of Sandman and Spider-Man. The story moves on with the love of Keemia and Sandman. Keemia hates Spider-Man for saving her life from the huge sand castle. Sandman is defeated and helpless about the situation.
Spider-Man in this issue approaches against a new version of the rascal and is now able to reproduce and adapt himself into new environments. The issue covers a simple fight between Sandman and Spiderman and it is sufficient to call it as a successful story. This whole story ends with a complete full circle and after reading I am again waiting to read about the little girl and her connection from Sandman.

Van Lente and Pulido have recognized themselves as 2 brightest voices of new Spidey Braintrust. Each time we get something new from these two story creators.