DJ's Comics Blog

This title was written and drawn by various talents, with a framing story by Joshua Williamson.  SPOILERS AHEAD!!!       I have pretty much been on a hiatus from DC Comics for the last month and change, as I had grown bored with the Future State line of titles after only a couple of weeks of them being rolled out. Since that moment, I have been eagerly anticipating the moment in which I could once again bring myself to journey back to the land of the Distinguished Competition, reuniting myself with some of the most iconic characters in the history of comic books. Nothing was going to stop me from making my return to this world of retcons and reboots, of Crises both Final and Infinite, a land of Dark Knights and Clown Princes of Crime, and what a welcome return it was. After everything that has gone on over the past six months or so (probably, time kind of all blends together these days, it could have only been three days for all I know), I wondered what exactly DC...

  This story was written by Kelly Thompson, with artwork from Lee Garbett   Marvel Unlimited is truly a wonderful service, aside from the random gaps in series, or otherwise just completely absent runs. Due to a shortage of the usual offerings that would populate my pull list, which you can thank DC’s “Future State” for mostly, I made the decision to delve back into the world of Kelly Thompson’s “Captain Marvel” run, in preparation for the ending of the “Brave New World” story arc that has been ongoing for the last few months. I have to say that, despite the usual criticisms that some unhelpful people have, this entire run has been utterly stellar from start to finish, with Thompson at her absolute best, with some awesome visuals from the likes of Carmen Carnero and Lee Garbett. Somehow, Kelly Thompson is just able to make me care about a group of characters that I usually couldn’t give two hoots about, with all of them being fleshed out perfectly, while having a believable ...