Saturday, September 4, 2010 at 9:17AM Hey, I've been scarce lately. But there's a reason! I was writing this for Heidi MacDonald's The Beat.
comics, dc comics, guest blogging, marvel comics in oh no you didn't Sunday, August 15, 2010 at 11:56PM 
Not exactly Rob Liefeld Supergirl, is she? Thank God.Once upon a time DC Comics realized that little girls liked Supergirl stuff, but they didn't have a single Supergirl comic or graphic novel safe and suitable for little girls. So they created one. Precisely one. And then they stopped.
(Never mind that Billy Batson and the Power of Shazam survived two mediocre years for no particularly good reason.)
This is that graphic novel.
Kara Zor-El, Superman's cousin from an alternate dimension, randomly gets stuck on Earth, Clark pops some glasses on her and sends her to school (his answer to everything) and cue middle school adventures. The comic is obviously aimed at girls just young enough that middle school adventures sounds awesome - that is, kids who are too young to have to endure the hell that is middle school.
Thursday, August 5, 2010 at 2:39AM 
As you may have noticed, I'm not really an art person, as comic fans go. I'll follow good writing anywhere as long as the art isn't nightmare-fuel bad. (You know which run of Runaways I'm glaring at right now, don't you?) It takes a lot to get me enthusing about the art before I get around to the writing. So you know that J.H. Williams' work on Batwoman Elegy is probably just that good.
For the record, it's just that good.
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The third volume of DC Showcase's classic Sgt. Rock reprints have come out, so this is a great time for me to tell you just how amazing they are. Throw out everything you think you know about them, the original Sgt. Rock as written by Robert Kanigher for Our Army At War will knock your socks off. Well, it knocked my socks off, I can't speak to yours.
Monday, August 2, 2010 at 4:55PM 
Oh, the ironyEveryone's all over Wonder Woman getting a new pair of pants. So what? I buy new pants once or twice a year. But no one seems to notice that Booster Gold has become a daddy. And I don't mean Rip Hunter, either. People, this is a big deal!
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