Talking About Comics

The OMAC Project #1-6 Originally released in 2005 Written by Greg Rucka Art by Jesus Saiz While I don't know which series or comics are absolutely required reading for Infinite Crisis (or if any series beyond Crisis On Infinite Earths are required reading - I've already read Crisis On Infinite Earths before, though given the sheer amount of content in the DC universe, I feel like there was a lot that I missed out on), I figure I might as well read the miniseries with direct ties to the event before I read Infinite Crisis. The next one that I'm reading is the OMAC Project. The OMAC, or One Man Army Corps., were created by Jack Kirby after the cancellation of the New Gods series. The series starts off by focusing on the organization Checkmate and its leader Maxwell Lord.  I'm used to him from Justice League International, where he was the financier and an 80s businessman, and his biggest conflict with the heroes was generally Blue Beetle saying things like "I can...

Maximum Carnage part 1 Spider-Man Unlimited #1, Web of Spider-Man #101, Amazing Spider-Man #378, Spider-Man #35, Spectacular Spider-Man #201 Originally released in 1993 Written by Tom DeFalco (Unlimited), Terry Kavanagh (Web), David Michelinie (Amazing, Spider-Man), J.M. DeMatteis (Spectacular) Art by Ron Lim (Unlimited), Alex Saviuk (Web), Mark Bagley (Amazing), Tom Lyle (Spider-Man), Sal Buscema (Spectacular) The Marvel MaXimum Collection , a collection of Marvel games by various publishers, was recently released.  The games included range from popular hits that haven't been officially available for years (X-Men: The Arcade Game) to games that are insanely frustrating and would otherwise be forgotten about (Silver Surfer, where everything in the game, from walls to individual bullets, kills the nigh-invincible Silver Surfer in one hit), but for me, the only game that I'd played going into it was the SNES version of Maximum Carnage, a side-scrolling beat-em-up. (I played a bit...

Amazing Spider-Man #1-5 Originally released in 2025 Written by Joe Kelly Art by Pepe Larraz I'm going to give the new run of Amazing Spider-Man a try; I've heard good things about the writer, Joe Kelly, as he was one of the people responsible for making Deadpool a fourth wall breaking lunatic rather than a Deathstroke knock-off.  From the way it starts off, it doesn't seem like much has changed since the Brand New Day storyline, as Peter is still job-hunting. He gets a job at a big tech conglomerate thanks to a friend from middle school, though Aunt May isn't pleased - even from the brief flashbacks that we get, it's clear that the friend in question was a bad influence on Peter, though with that friend moving away, Peter lost that negative streak by the time that he reached high school during the Lee-Ditko era.  Peter almost misses out on the job, though, because he spots the Rhino rampaging through the city. Some things have seemed to change since the events of Br...