The Savage Critic: October
16th, 2002
By Brian
Hibbs
Welcome
back, my friends, to the show that never ends. I'm
still catching up from last week's excursion to LA, so I really want
to blow the entire column off this week.
However, I just noticed Dirk
linked to us from Journalista,
so I guess we have a few new people checking us out this week. Thanks
Dirk.
Anyway, not a chance of me
typing out all of my opinions this week, so here's some minor highlights.
TP/GN of the Week:
Honest to god, I wanted to give it to Bob Fingerman's Beg the Question,
but I just can't do it -- he lost something on the order of fifty pages
from the original GN, and I really, really missed the dream sequence
from the end of the last issue. Damn this is great stuff on the balance,
but I'~m afraid I prefer the original cut much more. So we go to pick
#2, then, which is the Shazam Archives V3. This stuff
is loony, but it has such a heart. I'm about midway through the book,
and I'm loving every page.
Pick of the Week:
It was a strange week of comics, the stuff I really was expecting to
love (i.e., War Story, Mek) I was fairly lukewarm
on. So I think we'll go with either Teenagers From Mars #4
(which meanders terribly, but is getting better with each issue) or
Radioactive Man #106 with that wonderful Gold Key cover
-- the guts were fine (not as much of a sharp parody of GK comics...
but there's not a lot to work with there). I'll let you decide which
was actually better.
Pick of the Weak:
I think this week's biggest dud was Stormwatch: Team Achilles
#4. Showing character competence in having your adversaries
be utterly and completely incompentent is lousy storytelling. And, y'know,
"hacking" can't be an excuse for everything. Blech. Following is the
full list of stuff Comix Experience received this week, for those 3
people who might use this as a shipping list.
Next week: A return to the
full reviews.
ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #610
ARCHIE AND FRIENDS #64
ARKANIUM #2
AVENGERS ICONS VISION #4
AZRAEL AGENT OF THE BAT #96
BATGIRL #34
BATMAN FAMILY BUGG & DR EXCESS #3
BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #161
BEAUTIFUL KILLER #3
BETTY #119
BETTY & VERONICA DIGEST #134
BLACK PANTHER #51
BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL #73
CALL OF DUTY THE PRECINCT #5
DAREDEVIL THE TARGET #1
FABLES #7
GEN 13 #3
GREEN LANTERN #156
GREEN LANTERN EVILS MIGHT #3
HARLEY QUINN #26
HOPELESS SAVAGES GROUND ZERO #4
HUNTER THE AGE OF MAGIC #17
IRON MAN #61
JINGLE BELLE WINTER WINGDING ONE SHOT
JSA #42
JUGHEADS DOUBLE DIGEST #90
KILLRAVEN #2
MEK #1
MEKANIX #2
NEGATION #12
NIGHTMARES AND FAIRY TALES #3
NIGHTWING #75
POINT BLANK #4
PUNISHER #18
RADIOACTIVE MAN #106
RANMA 1/2 PART 11 #9
SCOOBY-DOO #66
SHIDIMA #7
SIGIL #30
SOJOURN #17
SPAWN #120
SPECTRE #23
STAR WARS EMPIRE #3
STORMWATCH TEAM ACHILLES #5
STRAY BULLETS #27
SUPER MANGA BLAST #26
SUPERMAN DAY OF DOOM #1
SUPERNATURAL LAW #36
TEENAGERS FROM MARS #4
THUNDERCATS SOURCEBOOK
TOM STRONGS TERRIFIC TALES #5
TOMB RAIDER JOURNEYS #8
ULTIMATE X-MEN #24
WAR STORY THE REIVERS
WITCHBLADE #60
X-TREME X-MEN X-POSE #1
ABC WARRIORS VOL 2 GN BLACK HOLE
ANIMERICA DECEMBER 2002 VOL 10 #12
ANIMERICA EXTRA DECEMBER 2002VOL 5 #12
BANANA FISH VOL 7 TP
BATMAN YEAR TWO FEAR THE REAPER TP NEW EDITION
BAZONGAS GN (A)
BEG THE QUESTION HC
BLAB VOL 13
BLOOD LAST VAMPIRE 2002 GN
CINESCAPE DEC 2002 #66 AND #67
COMIC BOOK ARTIST #22
EVEN A MONKEY CAN DRAW MANGA VOL 1
FORTEAN TIMES #164
FRENCH KISS #4 (A)
HOUSE AT MAAKIES CORNER HC
INCAL VOL 1 TP ORPHAN OF THE CITY SHAFT
INCREDIBLE HULK VOL 1 HC
INVISIBLES TP #7 THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM
JINGLE BELLE COOL YULE TP
JLA SECRET ORIGINS OVERSIZED SC
KRAZY & IGNATZ LOVE LETTERS IN ANCIENT BRICK 1927-28 TP
LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE PRO AND THE CON
MAD MAGAZINE #424
MARVEL MANGAVERSE TP VOL 2
MAX HAMM FAIRY TALE DETECTIVE#1
MODESTY BLAISE VOL 1 TP LIVE BAIT
OH MY GODDESS QUEEN SAYOKO TP
ORIGIN TP
POUNDED TP
SHAZAM ARCHIVES VOL 3 HC
STAR TREK COMMUNICATOR #141
STARLOG #305
TELLOS SONS AND MOONS
TOYFARE #65
VAMPIRE THE MASQUERADE GN CALEBROS
WILDCATS STREET SMART TP
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