Tag Archives: Revamp

When Not To Revamp

When Not To Revamp

With DC only soliciting one comic for release on August 31st, speculation abounds as what the company is planning. The scariest proposition that is being bandied around is that DC plans another One Year Later type event, dropping readers into new stories after some alleged gap of time, like they did after Infinite Crisis. I shudder at the thought. Although I thoroughly enjoyed the ’52′ series, it hardly covered the activity of a worlds-worth of characters, and favourite titles such as the Titans appeared to descend into nonsense. Earlier plotlines were left hanging; characters appeared and disappeared with no thought of reader loyalty to those characters at all. After all, Read more »

A New Earp For A New Age

A New Earp For A New Age

In my last post I mentioned how I’m not that into the old Wild West titles, yet now it seems that I am to be proved wrong at every turn. Of course as a child I loved both the strips and the old movies but at some point my love affair with the cowboy faded away as I found more and more of the ‘spandex’ worlds to explore. Looks like I am being drawn back to old territories, what with the Phantom Rider haunting the pages of Hawkeye and Mockingbird and now this, a revamp of the legendary Wyatt Earp. Earp Saints For Sinners is one of those higher quality Read more »