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Why the Last Issue?
Column by J.P. Dorigo, 2008.
The comic industry can be very fickle and unpredictable.
It can often be difficult to get fans to buy a new book and
then hold their interest in the title. So it is certainly
an accomplishment when a creator owned book, without super
heroes in it last for 60 issues. That is exactly what Y: The
Last Man creators Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra have done.
Y: The Last man fits nicely next to other significant Vertigo
works such as Sandman, Preacher and Transmetropolitan.
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I am going to miss this book terribly. Even though there were
points in the run where things got a bit slow, it was a consistently
good read and always found its way to the top of my weekly
stack. My Y: The Last Man trades are still my most often lent
trades, giving them to people who are already into comics,
and to those who have never walked into a comic shop. I grew
to love Yorick and his ilk, and as Vaughan told CNN, "It'll
be a drag not to get to spend more time with these characters."
Hats of to Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra.
Continue to the full review at
Broken Frontier.
 X-Force
#1
William Gatevackes - 2008
Springing from the pages of the Messiah CompleX comes a brand
new X-Force series. But this one isnt your fathers (well,
actually, older brothers) X-Force. This team is even grimmer
and grittier than ever before.
Cyclops has decided that there are some threats that must
be dealt withpermanently. So he gathers the best trackers
the X-Men have to offerWarpath, Wolverine, X-23, and Wolfsbaneand
forms his own dark ops group. They do the dirty jobs no one
else can do, and the ones no one else can know about.
The tactic of putting the X into exterminate is sure to be
a controversial change to the X-Men mythos. Only question
I have is how long it will take before Kyle and Yost build
up the same body count they had in New X-Men.
Continue to the full review at
Broken Frontier.
Four Plus Two.
Column by William Gatevackes, 2008.
This week, Marvel is starting a new era on the title that
could very well bring the Fantastic Four back into the limelight.
This is the week when superstar creators Mark Millar and Bryan
Hitch take over the series.
When it came time for Marvel to do a version of the Avengers
for their burgeoning Ultimates line, they tapped the team
of Hitch and Millar. Im sure the creators work on two separate
arcs of Wildstorms The Authority had something to do with
it. Perhaps Marvel thought that Hitchs panoramic, widescreen
style from the first twelve issues of that series would mix
well with the bombastic, over-the-top style of Millars writing
on issue 13 and on.
The duo combined to make The Ultimates the comic book equivalent
of a summer blockbuster. The book was an action-packed extravaganza
with just a hint of subversive and shocking content which
captured the fans fancy. It quickly became the one of the
lines best selling books.
Continue to the full review at
Broken Frontier.
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