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FF #3 and FF #4: The War Begins [Annotations]
FF #3 and FF #4: The War Begins [Annotations]
FF #3 and FF #4: The War Begins [Annotations]
Welcome back to our (admittedly delayed) annotations of Jonathan Hickman's hugely successful run on FF, formerly Fantastic Four! Chris Eckert of Funnybook Babylon and Savage Critics and I have been taking a look at every issue to provide annotations for readers that explore the book's connections with the rest of Hickman's work and the run's influences from all over the Marvel Universe... Read Mor
FF #2: Brain Damage in the Doom Nation [Annotations]
FF #2: Brain Damage in the Doom Nation [Annotations]
FF #2: Brain Damage in the Doom Nation [Annotations]
We're back with another installment in our series of annotations for Jonathan Hickman's FF run, this time taking a look at the second issue, "Doom Nation," as well as the second installment of our exclusive question/answer with Hickman after the release of each issue...
‘Batman Incorporated’ #4: Ring Around the World [Annotations]
‘Batman Incorporated’ #4: Ring Around the World [Annotations]
‘Batman Incorporated’ #4: Ring Around the World [Annotations]
Our Batman Incorporated annotations are back, this time taking a look at the incredibly dense and referential fourth issue. Not only does this issue feature writer Grant Morrison's new origin of the original Golden Age Batwoman, an appearance by the new Batwoman, and stunning art from Chris Burnham with coloring from Nathan Fairbairn, but it also inspired a new crazy theory on my part...
‘Live From the DMZ’ Documents the Life of Brian Wood’s Vertigo Opus
‘Live From the DMZ’ Documents the Life of Brian Wood’s Vertigo Opus
‘Live From the DMZ’ Documents the Life of Brian Wood’s Vertigo Opus
From the day issue #1 went on sale in 2005, it was obvious that DMZ was going to become one of the great long form Vertigo series. Created by Brian Wood and illustrated primarily by Riccardo Burchielli, the story about a hapless news intern who found himself the voice of a modern civil war-ravaged American community and biographer of its infinitely diverse denizens has been compelling reading f
Batman Incorporated #3: “Scorpion Tango” [Annotations]
Batman Incorporated #3: “Scorpion Tango” [Annotations]
Batman Incorporated #3: “Scorpion Tango” [Annotations]
It's been a long wait, but Batman Incorporated is finally back, and that means so is our ongoing series of annotations. This third issue, by Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette with two pages by Pere Perez, brings Bruce Wayne to Argentina to team up with the Gaucho as well as test everything I learned in high school about Argentinian history, Jorge Luis Borges and the Spanish language...
Batman, Inc. #2 Annotations: RESURRECTOR!
Batman, Inc. #2 Annotations: RESURRECTOR!
Batman, Inc. #2 Annotations: RESURRECTOR!
Welcome back for the second installment of ComicsAlliance's annotations of Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette's criminally fun Batman, Inc. This issue we'll see hints at the origin of Lord Death Man, the fate of Mr. Unknown, heartbreak in an ambulance and a gigantic gorilla wearing a Ninja Turtle mask...
Fantastic Four #570: Solving Everything [Annotations]
Fantastic Four #570: Solving Everything [Annotations]
Fantastic Four #570: Solving Everything [Annotations]
Jonathan Hickman came on Fantastic Four in late 2009 and, quite frankly, blew the socks off of the book. Since then, Hickman and later collaborators like Dale Eaglesham, Neil Edwards and Steve Epting have been weaving an intricate, thematically layered story of fathers and sons, the costs of inaction, scientific responsibility and punching things in the face...
‘Batman: The Return’ #1 [Annotations]
‘Batman: The Return’ #1 [Annotations]
‘Batman: The Return’ #1 [Annotations]
Grant Morrison's run continues this week with both Batman: The Return and ComicsAlliance is here, as usual, to break down the books page by page and examine them in the context of both Morrison's body of work and the history of the character...

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