DJ's Comics Blog

  This story was written by Philip K. Johnson, with visuals by Salvador Larroca.   Despite the risk of completely distancing myself from fans of the franchise, I would just like to begin by saying that I never thought that I would even want to purchase anything to do with Alien in my wildest nightmares. Only watching the very first instalment in the franchise was enough for me to know that I wasn’t at all a fan of this style of suspenseful horror, finding it to simply just be an excuse to make an utterly boring film with some jump scares scattered throughout, which do not exactly accomplish their task, coming across as incredibly predictable. With that being said however, I actually rather enjoyed this first instalment of the new comic book run. Following on from his so-so showing on Superman from a couple of weeks ago, I understandably had my concerns about this book being written by Philip Kennedy Johnson, expecting just another concise, yet underwhelming, outing that re...

  This story was written by Simon Spurrier, with pencils by Sergio Davila, inks by Sean Parsons, and colours by Arif Prianto. In the past, I have made it known that I like some very random characters in comic books, for literally no discernible reason whatsoever. Whether it be Taskmaster, who has almost no redeemable qualities, or someone like Kate Pryde, who likely has an established fanbase, there have been maybe too many to actually reel off here right now. One of the characters that I haven’t admitted to liking until recently, mostly just admitting to myself really, is that of Dane Whitman, who is best known as the Black Knight. Throughout my journey of Marvel’s history, he has not exactly appeared all that often, or even been that appealing, but for some reason now that I have reached the 1990s era of the Avengers, I cannot help myself but to be absolutely fascinated with the concept. Yes, I admit that this is certainly one of the weakest Avengers line-ups ever during this tim...

  This issue was written by James Tynion IV, with artwork from Guillem March   When I first saw the slate of titles that DC were going to be releases as part of this “Infinite Frontier” era of storytelling, I will admit that I was very sceptical about the idea of a Joker solo title, as I was not sure that this would be tailored towards such a character, what with him being one of the biggest bads in all of DC Comics, and I thought that his adventures separate from Batman or some other hero would be pointless and unappealing. Of course, that was all working on the idea that the Clown Prince of Crime would be the sole focus of the entire narrative, for however long this series goes on for. Having not really read much information about the story, only really having seen the cover and pretty much decided there and then that this would be a disaster, I was unaware of the direction that James Tynion IV would be taking for this newest endeavour, being pleasantly surprised to say ...