THE GEEEEK AWARDS [Best Comics of 2022] – JLA vs. Avengers!

1. The Human Target - Here, Tom King & Greg Smallwood take another nearly forgotten DC character, give every appearance of intravenously injecting all narrative content from Brubaker/Phillips in the past twenty years cross-blended with the Giffen/DeMatteis JLI run, then blast out the most obvious thing fully formed and nearly vibrating off the page, resonant …

DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS [Review]: The Raimian Aspect.

I first encountered the work of Sam Raimi at a church lock-in in 7th Grade. It was October and the chaperone thought it would be cool to rent a couple scary movies. After the more wholesome church-related activities and ritualistic devouring of the pizzas and the sugar, the twelve of us unrolled our sleeping bags …

RORSCHACH / AN UNKINDNESS OF RAVENS [Reviews]: Fistful of Mystery.

It’s been almost a year since Damon Lindelof’s HBO mini-series WATCHMEN and the Geoff Johns/Gary Frank DC Comics mini-series DOOMSDAY CLOCK, both sequels to the Alan Moore’/Dave Gibbons seminal masterpiece WATCHMEN, took their final bows. But the former just won a gang of Emmys, and DC Comics is only too happy to push out more …

THE FLASH vs. THE FLASH [DC FanDome]: Zoom! The Blur of Two Panels.

There was an incredible burden on the DC FanDome panel for the upcoming The Flash movie. This project has buzz-sawed through multiple scripts and directors and already endured several release-date bumps even pre-COVID, not to mention the rough prospect of being an alternate version of the character racing up against six seasons of the Grant …