Posts Tagged ‘Ed Brubaker’


Captain America: Reborn Prelude

July 1st, 2009 by Riff

Nice prequel to the Captain America Reborn arc from Brubaker available here. It’s relatively short but it’s free and let’s face it, it’s a teaser more than anything else but it’s a few extra pages that we get to whet our appetite. Marvel have gotten some stick for firstly killing Cap off and then bringing [...]

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Captain America #600 (again)

May 26th, 2009 by Riff

Ok this is big. This is getting featured everywhere… I mean it’s low key but everyone’s got a teaser or something. What’s happening? Everyone’s reprising no news – just a list of the artists working on it, and some groovy artwork. I’ve seen a fair bit of Alex Ross out there, and frankly the world [...]

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Comics: Voting with your Wallet

May 20th, 2009 by Riff

Christine posted an interesting article on her The Other Murdock Papers blog regarding the cancellation of Captain Britain and MI-13, and her post rang very true to me. The main reason it did so was simply this: I stopped reading Daredevil when Brubaker took over because I thought (after 6 issues of Brubaker’s run) that [...]

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Captain America 600

May 13th, 2009 by Riff

So here’s some exciting tease from Marvel about Captain America Issue #600. Now, regular readers will recall the teaser I published here a week or so ago; the white star on a solid black background. I can’t be certain but I wonder if those events aren’t connected in some way.That said “July” The solicitation data [...]

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Friday Roundup

April 3rd, 2009 by Riff

A weekly round up of news in the world of comics!

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Diggle to pen Marvel’s Daredevil

March 21st, 2009 by Riff

So catching up on comic news as I’m prone to do – after all, who else is gonna keep you in the mix? – and this flops onto my desktop courtesy of Myspace Comicbooks’ “Cup o’ Joe.” Frankly this is excellent news. Excellent? It’s fucking fantastsic! Yep, Andy Diggle is take over from Ed Brubaker [...]

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Ed Brubaker’s Angel of Death (a non-review)

March 4th, 2009 by Riff

Ok I need to start out here by telling you I really don’t like what Ed Brubaker does. In fact, I make strenuous efforts to avoid his stuff because, frankly, I think it’s crap. (Ok, I’ve never met the bloke, but I intensely dislike his stories, although I want to be clear that I don’t [...]

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Art or Artifact: Comics as Commodity or Entertainment.

February 22nd, 2009 by Riff

Comicbooks aren’t for kids any more it seems. Hell some of them aren’t for grown-ups either. For many they seem to be a cash cow, an investment, something to be stored in vaults, in plastic (or better still foil) bags, in acid-free cardboard boxes in low ultra-violet light, never to actually be read or enjoyed, [...]

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