DJ's Comics Blog

  This story is written by: Saladin Ahmed, with visuals from: Carmen Carnero and David Curiel. I would hardly call this a “Saga” in the traditional sense of the world, as this was not exactly sprawling epic, told over multiple years, or even generations of people. It was simply just a four-issue story, that I felt was rather a boring read for the most part, albeit boredom that was very well written on the part of Saladin Ahmed. A much better use of the Clone Saga name would likely just to have had all of this run leading up this moment be considered Miles’ Saga, obviously further down the line in the collected volume of course, as that is what we have been dealing with for quite a bit of this stint for the character. This finale issue really followed the same formula as all of the previous instalments of the arc, only this time with the threat of a months old baby girl being lobbed off of a bridge (seriously, not every Spider-Man needs to have a bridge threat in their lives). In...

  This story is written by: Mark Russell, with visuals from: Sean Izaakse and Nolan Woodard.   One of the most difficult things to do for anything in media is to reuse a concept that has proven incredibly popular in the past, and make it as good as it was the first time around. We have seen it for years with movie reboots or television revivals, where you simply just do not get that same magic the second (or third and fourth) time around, with it then coming across as a shameless cash grab made by people who don’t care, or an embarrassment to the legacy of the original (hello Fantastic Four 2015). Of course, this is not just limited to film and television, as our beloved comic books have been guilty of more than their fair share of this over the years. We have Civil War II, which was literally only there to promote a new film (which was far better than the barely related comic book), we have Infinity Wars (again, same deal with Civil War II), and then we have the billion crise...

 This story is written by: Tini Howard, with visuals from: Alberto Foche & Sunny Gho. From what I can tell at least, this is a series that has been a long time in the making, dating back to the original announcement of this reboot all the way back in 2019. Back then, it was more a case of teasing that something like this would be coming, rather than actually being a part of that initial slate of titles, but as soon as the Reign of X was announced, this came along with it. To say that the books that have come after that initial wave have been varying in quality would really be an understatement, as so very many of them are really poor in my opinion, and it is a surprise that the ones that are actually considered the good ones in this whole line are the ones that are getting cancelled (aside from Cable, that deserves the axe). Before I go into full on rant mode, I think that we should just get straight on into talking about the events of this very first issue, and exactly wha...

  This story was written by Jason Aaron, with pencils from Ed McGuinness. I understand that I promised to review this title today and everything, but boy was it a long process to actually get it all started. My usual schedule for my reviewing starts just after I have had lunch, where I then spend the next few hours reading the titles for that day and splurging my thoughts out on to this very page. In the couple of years or so that I have been reviewing my comics seriously, there as not been a single one that I have ever been stressed or worried or just completely unwilling to read, until this dreary Spring day that is. For the entire morning, since I woke up at half past nine, I had been dreading the exact moment that I would sit down at my desk, as I really just didn’t want to have to acknowledge the existence of this rehash of a concept that I am sure everybody had hoped died a horrible permanent death after it’s failure the first go around. As a little disclaimer, I have never ...

  This title was written by Jason Aaron and Torunn Gronbekk, with artwork by Mattia Iulis and Erica D'Urso.   There are simply just some writers that are more suited to certain characters than they are to others. For seven or eight years of his career with Marvel Comics, Jason Aaron was the main writer for the Thor/Might Thor title, putting in one of the most seminal runs in the history of that character, while also writing the likes of Wolverine and Punisher at some other points. It is safe to see that the majority of his Thor run will be remembered fondly by most fans (perhaps War of the Realms notwithstanding, even though it was fun, if a little long), with the things he introduced to that mythos likely to be mentioned in the same breath as Straczynski, Simonson, Lee and Kirby. On the other end of the scale, with things he is not suited to, would be this current run of his on the Avengers title. Now, that has been a tumultuous title for pretty much sixty years, but Aaron...

 This issue was written by Danny Fingeroth, Dan Abnett, and Kyle Higgins; with artwork from Mike Manley, Andrea Di Vito, and Juanan Ramirez.   As is often the case with a title such as this, I went into it with quite low expectations, as the concept and character of Darkhawk was always intriguing to me, but the stories that I have read did not exactly live up to that intrigue, often being quite boring, and too focused on the exact same things over and over again, to varying degrees of severity. It is therefore safe to say that this collection of three stories blew me away, with three excellent tales from the life of Chris Powell, as he navigates the realm of the super heroes. Accompanying these previously untold adventures (because they literally didn’t happen until now), were visuals which perfectly encapsulated the eras that each story was taking place within, helped by the fact that two out of the three illustrators happened to have been drawing the character at that time...