H at the Comic Treadmill manages to dislike Avengers 503 even more than I did:
“Avengers 503, the concluding part in the so-called “Disassembled” story, was the final straw for me. This book is a hate-letter from start to finish by writer Brian Bendis and his superiors. I get it. Marvel hates me, the reader. I won’t let the door hit me in the ass on my way out.”
But they love your money, H! That’s why they keep offering you variant covers and director’s cuts!
If I didn’t already have a surfeit of imaginary boyfriends, I would certainly add Tom the Dog to the list for pungent critical comments like this:
“We3 is the kind of story that makes me think Grant Morrison is a super genius. JLA: Classified is the kind of story that makes me think Grant Morrison is a pretentious blithering jackass.”
Johanna Draper Carlson has declared the adorable Imadoki! a Comic Worth Reading (or, technically speaking, a Manga Worth Reading). Surprising absolutely no one, I agree. So does Dorian. And Greg at iComics.
Nothing critical about it except for the tacit endorsement of the contest itself, but time is running out to make a bid for Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life at Peiratikos.
After you’re done there, stop by Yet Another Comics Blog to help Dave decide which Oni graphic novel to read next. You know he’d do it for you.
These folks always make me feel like a pretender to the title “curmudgeon.” It’s totally out of context, but I laughed and laughed at this line:
“Well, I am a physicist, and the answer to what happens when you puncture a nuclear reactor is: Pretty much nothing.”
It reminds me of the bit in Annie Hall where Marshall McLuhan steps out from behind a movie poster to deflate a blowhard.