Author Archives: JD DeLuzio

Comic Review: Day of Vengeance

Her headless ghost screamed foul prophecies for thirteen minutes before it faded.

Twenty years after DC’s Crisis on Infinite Earths, both major comic-book companies are engaging in major housecleaning and renovations. DC began theirs with Identity Crisis, and will finish (for the time being) with Infinite Crisis, the first issue of which will appear on shelves in October of 2005.

DC’s mystic heroes appear (and in many cases, disappear) in the six-issue series Day of Vengeance.

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Comic Review: Justice #1

DC will publish this 12-part series bimonthly over the next two years. Although the premise is unusual, this series may come closer than the All-Star comics to that line’s stated intent of presenting DC’s heroes at their most iconic. More importantly, Justice features Alex Ross’s incredible artwork. The first issue has been published with two different covers: the Justice League and the Legion of Doom.

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Review: The Night Stalker

With the new series about to premiere, we’re reviewing the original 1972 tv-movie. The production drew top ratings (hey, there wasn’t much choice in ’72), and spawned three other tv movies and an occasionally witty series, Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974-5) which presaged The X-Files, and is an acknowledged influence on that show.

Available here. The subsequent series (which holds a few gems) has recently been released on DVD.

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All-Star Batman and Robin, #1-2

DC’s new All-Star titles, while not in continuity with their mainstream comics, aren’t really intended to be an alternate universe, either. They represent, according to DC, their most famous characters at their purest, most iconic, and are intended to draw in readers who may be unfamiliar with recent comic books.

Who better to do Batman and Robin in this manner, than Frank Miller? He revitalized interest in Batman with Dark Knight. He rebooted continuity with Year One.

He has gone hopelessly awry with this effort.

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