I haven’t liked a lot of Judd Winick’s superhero work. And that’s weird because I thought Pedro & Me was a heart-rending portrait of his friendship with his former Real World housemate, enjoyed his Barry Ween: Boy Genius series as manic and madcap fun and dug the depth he showed on his underappreciated Vertigo series [...]
The next few months will see a whole colony of Batman comics written by Grant Morrison. Besides the ongoing Batman and Robin, whose most recent issue ended with one of those classic Morrison twists that are obvious only in retrospect, he’s writing the six-issue miniseries Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne (which launches next week), [...]
There’s a touch of silver in the solicitations for the next few months’ superhero comics–a hint that both DC and Marvel are trying to recapture the tone of the so-called Silver Age, the era from the late ’50s to the early ’70s when both franchises laid the groundwork for what they’ve been doing ever since. [...]
