Geoff Johns’ has often said that the greatest strength of the DC Universe is legacy. He focuses on this quite a bit in his stories, and we’ve gotten some real classics out of it. While I wouldn’t quite go that far with this one, I recently picked up a deluxe edition of Superman: Last Son …
I’ll confess I’ve never been that big a fan of comic book movie adaptations. It always seemed kind of redundant to turn a movie based on a comic... back into a comic? And usually they’re an afterthought not really done by A-listers, anyway. For every Batman movie adaptation by Denny O’Neil, Jerry Ordway and José …
Continue reading Superman Returns- The Prequels: The Donner Movie Adaptation We Never Had
One of the greatest qualities of Marvel’s on-again, off-again series “What If?” is that it explored places that a monthly comic couldn’t or wouldn’t normally go. Famous storylines in the company’s history were revisited with different scenarios and outcomes. There was often more death, more genuine shock and some pretty thought provoking stories. It was …
Continue reading Tales from the Dark Multiverse: The Death of Superman- A Few Thoughts
I like Supergirl. She’s a cool character. Unfortunately, for most of her character’s existence, she has never really found her own space to occupy in the DCU. Which is too bad, because as crazy as it sounds for a character who has been around for nearly six decades, I think there’s a lot of …
Continue reading Supergirl Vol 1: The Killers of Krypton- A Review
DC continues their well-received run of Omnibuses using periods in comic book history as themes, and Superman is once again the beneficiary of a great oversized hardcover book collecting his earliest adventures! Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 2 is of a similar quality to its predecessor- nice paper, vibrant colors, sewn binding for flexibility …
Continue reading Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 2- A Review
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