We Love the City

I’m not quite sure what to make of Brian K. Vaughan these days. He certainly caught my, and everyone else’s, attention with Y The Last Man, which remains one of my favourite books. But a stellar first issue of Ex Machina was followed by a fairly dull opening arc that led to my dropping the…

So DC editor Steve Wacker left DC for Marvel. And even by the insane standards of Newsarama overreactions, the Newsarama fanboys insanely overreact with accusations of unprofessionalism and disloyalty. First, the obvious: Wacker could have given a year’s notice he was leaving, but as soon as he said he was going to Marvel, Dan Didio…

So, as I was just saying, Mike Carey is one of my favourite writers. And when I was about 13 and discovered Whilce Portacio’s work on X-Factor and Uncanny X-Men, I thought he was pretty awesome; while hindsight and a more mature appreciation of comic art says he’s bigger on scratchy art than he is…

I like Mike Carey. He’s probably one of my favourite writers these days, largely due to his excellent work on Lucifer: he writes great characters and mixes them with wonderful and fantastic stories. I have mixed feelings about Pasqual Ferry – his art looks entirely too slick sometimes, but there’s still a lot of energy…

I realize that death is one of those things you really shouldn’t take too seriously in superhero comics. Dead, alive, dead… it all just blurs together after a while. You kind of have to accept that no one significant is ever going to stay dead, and that even B- and C-listers will probably make it…

(or, The Many Faces of Sue Storm, continued) A preview page from Ultimate Power #1, “the crossover of the decade” (apparently able to top Civil War without a clone). Note the Thing, and particularly the Invisible woman, in the top panel: Next: The cover to Ultimate Fantastic Four #21: And finally, the cover to Ultimate…