The Death of Superman

The Death of Superman cuts to the chase in the title — this is an animated retelling of the 1993 comic book crossover in which Superman, in order to save Metropolis, gets beaten to death by the alien Doomsday. It’s available on home video on Tuesday. (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided me with a review copy of this Blu-ray.) A number of viewers are likely too young to remember that 25-year-old media event, and the ensuing lines and collector’s edition [...]
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Horimiya Volumes 3-4

And now we’ve reached the point where the series settles down into a more typical groove in order to maintain for the long term. (The most recent book out is number 11.) They’ve introduced the friends, with each having someone to talk to at school, and the trio on the cover of volume 3 are the student council members. Those characters expand the social circle while providing some people to speculate on what the two leads, Hori and Miyamura, are [...]
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Doctor Who: The Seventh Doctor #3

I don’t normally bother reviewing wrap-up issues for miniseries, but this one deserves a few notes for doing things well in unusual fashion. “Operation Volcano” began in Doctor Who: The Seventh Doctor #1, written by Andrew Cartmel and illustrated by Christopher Jones. It involves the discovery of a spaceship in the Australian Outback, a conspiracy group, alien “snakes” that possess people, and other touches that bring home the 60s time setting. Although the Doctor (the Seventh, obviously, originally played by [...]
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Fence #8

The first volume of Fence is now widely available, so it seemed like a good time to check in with the continuing series. As created by C.S. Pacat and Johanna the Mad, it’s the story of a group of boys on an elite high school fencing team. Nicholas has talent but not enough training and not the right family background. Seiji has all the advantages and is inhumanly talented. They’re roommates. The last few issues have focused on various showdowns [...]
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Lobster Is the Best Medicine

I adore Liz Climo’s comics. They’re simple, often just two panels, often just two or three animals in each, but they’re direct and heart-warming. She juggles her characters between their animal behavior and well-observed, more human-like traits. Lobster Is the Best Medicine is specifically labeled “a collection of comics about friendship”, and that’s a welcome subject to dive further into. The various animals, sometimes in odd combinations, help each other out or figure out what they want to do while [...]
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Not Just Good Art, But Neat Web Presentation

The New Yorker has an online article about a little-known painting by Charles Addams featuring his famous Addams Family characters at the beach. It’s a nifty little discovery, and I always enjoy seeing more of his work. (The Addams characters first appeared in The New Yorker, by the way, in 1938.) What’s neat, beyond seeing a cartoon-ish seasonal piece of art, is how the site presents the painting. The second half of the article analyzes the layout and some of [...]
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Warner Continues Line of R-Rated Cartoons With Constantine: City of Demons

Constantine: City of Demons expands the CW Seed animated shorts into an animated movie. Here’s the plot description: A decade after a tragic mistake, family man Chas and occult detective John Constantine set out to cure Chas’s daughter Trish from a mysterious supernatural coma. With the help of the mysterious Nightmare Nurse, the influential Queen of Angels, and brutal Aztec God Mictlantecuhtli, the pair just might have a chance at outsmarting the demon Beroul to save Trish’s soul. In a [...]
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DC Cancels Historical Reprint for Content Concerns

In last month’s Previews catalog, DC early-solicited a reprint edition. Shazam!: The Monster Society of Evil Deluxe Edition was to be a $50 hardcover collection of stories from Captain Marvel Adventures #22-46, originally published beginning in 1943. This 24-chapter serial, written by Otto Binder and illustrated by C.C. Beck, introduced the evil worm Mr. Mind and was one of the earliest epic superhero stories, running over two years. (Interestingly, there was a movie serial in 1941, The Adventures of Captain [...]
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