Talking About Comics

Fables #6-10 Originally released in 2002 Written by Bill Willingham Art by Mark Buckingham I've been playing a lot of games by the company Telltale Games lately, which got me in the mood to give Fables (a series that they adapted into The Wolf Among Us) another try.  In the aftermath of the first five issues, Snow White is taking her sister Rose Red upstate to bring Colin, one of the Three Little Pigs, back to the Farm for community service. The Farm is a place for Fables who can't pass as human.  It's a place of sanctuary that's magically protected to keep normal humans out, but for the Fables who live there, it's more like a prison.  There was a human Fable, Weyland Smith, running the place, but he... quit.  Under mysterious circumstances.  Nothing suspicious about that, or about the secretive townwide meetings held in a barn that Snow White stumbles upon. While Snow White takes these events at face value, Rose understands that a revolution is brewing, and as ...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #14, 15, and 17 Originally released in 1988 Written by Kevin Eastman (#14 and 17), Peter Laird (#15) Art by Kevin Eastman (#14), Peter Laird (#15), Eric Talbot (#17) For whatever reason, the collection that I'm reading the original TMNT issues from is missing issues 13, 16, and 18, with issue 19 starting a three-part Return To New York story arc. For now, they're lying low in a small town, though Splinter is conspicuously absent from these stories. Tonally, these three issues are very different, so I'm guessing they used this opportunity to experiment with different ways of storytelling.  Issue 14 mixes a crime drama with comedy, as Casey Jones is trying to hunt down a cow statue that was stolen from a local convenience store that he went to when he was a kid. The Turtles and April get roped into this, with the Turtles dressing like characters from the gangster movie The Untouchables at one point. There's a car chase that sounds silly on pap...

Amazing Spider-Man #546-548 Originally released in 2008 Written by Dan Slott Art by Steve McNiven Full disclosure - I picked this entirely because the trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day came out today.  That movie looks like an interesting change to Spider-Man's status quo after the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home, feeling almost like a comic book with characters from all corners of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Bruce Banner, the Punisher, and possibly others if the speculation around Sadie Sink's casting is any indication).  The comic is also providing an introduction to a new status quo, but it comes in the aftermath of One More Day, a comic that I previously read and hated . The opening of this comic does little to endear me to the aftermath of One More Day, with the status quo being that Peter almost married Mary Jane but didn't, feeling that he's too young for marriage.  Now he's unemployed, living in Aunt May's house (and even her patience seems to...

Absolute Green Lantern #1-5 Originally released in 2025 Written by Al Ewing Art by Jahnoy Lindsay I decided to start the last of DC's Absolute series today, though covering a Green Lantern comic on St. Patrick's Day is just a coincidence.  This series is written by Al Ewing - I loved his work with Marvel (The Ultimates, Immortal Hulk, his Ant-Man and Wasp mini-series...), so I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out. Rather than focusing on one specific Green Lantern, like what Absolute Flash did, this series focuses on three or four people who are Green Lanterns in the original universe - Hal Jordan, John Stewart, Guy Gardner, and Jo Mullein. (Jo is less well-known than the others, but she was the lead in the miniseries Far Sector, which I greatly enjoyed) The book starts off in something of a "how did we get here?" situation that builds up the many mysteries that this series seems to be centered around.  We see Hal Jordan walking down a road as a voice ma...