Welcome to Digital ComicsAlliance, your headquarters for digital comics news and recommendations. We're switching gears a little this week and bringing you three of the very best Spider-Man stories in recent memory, with some of the most touching writing and incredibly appealing art you'll ever see out of a Marvel comic.
Creative Team: Brian Azzarello (writer), Eduardo Risso (art), Patricia Mulvihill (colors), Clem Robins (letters)
Platform: ComiXology (iOS, Web, Android)
Price: $1.99
Format: One issue
Why: Azzarello, Risso, and Mulvihill are responsible for one of my favorite comics series of all time--100 Bullets. This is the third stab at Batman as a unit, after Batman: Broken City and the Batman strip in Wednesday Comics. This try isn't as darkly comedic as Broken City or as distilled as their take from Wednesday Comics, but it is the best part of the Flashpoint event. Thomas Wayne is Batman, and that little change makes all the difference. This Batman is meaner and more serious than the one we know and love, with different ways of operating in Gotham and a willingness to put criminals under the ground. Azzarello's script is as enjoyable twisty as usual, with plenty of clever dialogue to chew over, and Risso and Mulvihill do what they do best: beautiful, moody comics featuring people who feel like real life in all its skinny, warty, pouty, sexy, beautiful glory.
Image via WikipediaThis is a cool article. I remember watching Superman II in the theater (the Grand Lake in Oakland, CA) when I was 6. It still holds up after all this time. Comics Alliance gives a good historical overview of the history of Superman in feature films and turns out that I learned a lot. I have not seen the Richard Donner version of Superman II, but even after 30 years, I still judge all Superhero films by this movie.
One of the most accepted truisms in super-hero comics is that there's not a whole lot of new stuff to be found underneath Earth's yellow sun. With seventy years of heroes, villains, selfless acts and dastardly schemes, plenty of creators have come up with bold new ideas, only to find out that they were done years ago. Probably by Jack Kirby.
But that's not necessarily a bad thing. A lot of the fun of super-hero comics comes from taking those old elements and seeing a new spin on them. Whether they're obvious and intentional stand-ins -- like The Authority's Apollo and Midnighter as Superman-and-Batman -- or creations that try to slip by unnoticed, there are plenty of bootleg versions of super-heroes out there, and some of them actually become great in their own right. And those are the characters we're spotlighting today with a look at The Top Five Greatest Knockoff Characters In Comics!
Read More: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/06/15/knockoff-characters-comics/#ixzz1PPYscBD8
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