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Weekly Comic Book Pulls for 5-21-08
2008-05-29 21:27:00 This week, Henchman21's WCBPs brings us insight into his Memorial Day weekend bag o' pulpy goodness.
By: Geeks of Doom
Weekly Comic Book Pulls for 03-28 & 04-02-08
2008-04-09 18:16:00 Henchman21's thoughts on some of the comic titles release during the last few weeks.
By: Geeks of Doom
Weekly Comic Book Pulls for 03-05 & 03-12-08
2008-03-24 15:34:00 Henchman21 is back in action and bringing you his weekly take on the comic book world. In this special edition of WCBP we're giving you a bonus week! That's right... TWO weeks for the price of one. And by 'price' we mean free, of course. Come discuss your Wednesday lust.
By: Geeks of Doom
Weekly Comic Book Pulls for 02-13-08
2008-02-20 17:37:00 Henchman21 cuts through the fat to give us his thoughts on the comic offerings for the first two weeks of February '08.
By: Geeks of Doom
Weekly Comic Book Pulls for 01-31-08
2008-02-12 13:10:00 The stack for January initially had been quite small, but this last day of the month turned out to be a healthy one. Here's the comic book pulls for 01-31-08.
By: Geeks of Doom
January 2008 Comic Pull Round-Up
2008-02-01 15:43:00 January was a spare month, so here's the list for the entire month of comic book pulls.
By: Geeks of Doom
Weekly Comic Book Pulls for 10-24-07
2007-11-01 13:48:00 Henchman's Weekly Comic Book Pulls for the week of October 24, 2007
By: Geeks of Doom
Geoff Johns continues to overload on violence
2007-02-19 21:39:00 This week, we make the discovery that, in re-launching JSA as a full title with a boolean included, Geoff Johns is undermining the entertainment value with plots that feature more increasingly violent assaults and murders. And while neo-nazis like the ones featured in issue #3 are some of the worst villains around, that still doesn't mean that we need to see a mother and child being sent to the great reward in a sea of red juice. Bloodletting certainly isn't needed in order to prove that the villains are the cannibals they are.This also brings me to note something I noticed in some of the Johns-scripted books I've read. As the Savage Critics blog says:*As the non-maimy parts of this book show, Johns has a good handle on characterization and the clever hook. But I kinda doubt he'll ever really develop those traits to any significant extent now because this is the kind of stuff that keeps him at the top of the charts.I think they've hit upon something there. For example, it was s...
Record: Geoff Johns
2006-12-25 09:38:03 Although not as overt in potential bias to women as some other writers are, Johns still has a few noteworthy faults of his own that can be put on record here, as follows: The use of Magenta in The Flash as an insane tool, and even the questionable characterization of Girder as a possible sex offender. In The Flash #199, the neo-Reverse-Flash strikes Linda Park West to the ground with a vibrating shockwave, terminating her pregnancy until the time-warp effects in issues #224-225 change all that. His story in The Flash #213 implying that the Turtle could be a child-molestor was a very serious abuse of a longtime character. He went along with the whole Identity Crisis crap, even in the pages of JSA, with the first storyline stemming from that in 2004 being really painful (and autopsy on Sue). So too in fact was the second one a year later, with the Spectre, and the corrupted Jean Loring-as-Eclipso. He wrote an awful story in Teen Titans featuring Captain Carrot and his Am...
Geoff Johns slaughters the Zoo Crew
2006-01-19 15:19:00 After reading this synopsis on Howling Curmudgeons (via Comics Worth Reading) of how Geoff Johns brought back Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew in the pages of Teen Titans just so that he could do a parody(!) of Identity Crisis, I think I'll have to hand it to the good folks at the blog there: they summed up a lot of my feelings about Johns that I've been trying to figure out just how to describe in the past year or so.And with lines in Infinite Crisis being uttered by Batman, directed towards Superman, that include "the last time you inspired anyone was when you were dead," I think I'll have to concur that, there may be something to the accusation that Infinite is a miniseries that seems to hate DC Comics, more than it does Marvel's EIC, Joe Quesada!And if DC thinks that writing this all as a satire can help them deflect any criticism, sorry, but that excuse has been used many times before, and certainly doesn't hold up very well now. It's a real shame that they're jus... |
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