Tag Archives: hawkman found

Around the Tubes

Posted on by

It was new comic book day yesterday! What’d folks get? What’d you like? What’d you dislike? Sound off in the comments below! While you decide on that, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web.

Detroit Metro Times – UM Dearborn comic book cover exhibition is no child’s play – This sounds cool.

CBR – Spoon! Amazon Renews Tick for Second Season – Glad the response was good enough for this.

The Comicrhon – Hawkman Found #1 top reordered book third consecutive week; February, March Comichron pages added – For those that like the horse race.

 

Reviews

IGN – Batman #39

IGN – Damage #1

CBR – Days of Hate #1

Talking Comics – Mech Cadet Yu #5

IGN – The Mighty Thor #703

IGN – Star Wars #42

IGN – Venom Inc.: Omega #1

Around the Tubes

Posted on by

It was new comic book day yesterday! What’d folks get? What’d you enjoy? What’d you dislike? Sound off in the comments below! While you think about that, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web.

Kotaku – IGN Fires Editor-In-Chief For ‘Alleged Misconduct’ – Good to see folks cleaning house.

ICv2 – Five Trends to Watch in the Comics Business in 2018 – Think these will happen?

Newsarama – Jim Baikie Passes Away At 77 – Our thoughts are with his family and friends.

The Comichron – Kirkman’s Oblivion Song again leads advance reorders; Hawkman Found tops reorders – For those that dig the horse race.

 

Reviews

IGN – Batman #38

IGN – Batman and the Signal #1

Comic Book – Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepus Chronicles #1

IGN – Guardians of the Galaxy #150

AiPT! – Iceman #9

Geek Dad – Nightwing #36

IGN – Phoenix Resurrection #2

IGN – The Walking Dead #175

Around the Tubes

Posted on by

Happy New Year everyone! We’re going strong today and will have all sorts of news, new data, best of lists, and more today. Thank you everyone for making 2017 awesome and on to 2018!

Albert Lea Tribune – Local comic book store begins hosting bi-weekly children’s event – Fantastic to see shops doing this!

Boing Boing – Happy Public Domain day! Here are the works entering the public domain in Canada and the EU, but not the USA, where the public domain is stagnant – Sigh…

Newsarama – Inside Africa’s Largest Comic Convention, Lagos Comic Con – Would love to check this out some year.

Newsarama – Zenescope’s Grimm Fairy Tales In Development As A Movie – With the budget vs. return on horror movies, this could be some of the most profitable comic films ever.

 

Reviews

Comic Book – Hawkman Found #1

Comic Book – Saban’s Go Go Power Rangers #5

Around the Tubes

Posted on by

It was new comic book day yesterday! What’d folks get? What’d you enjoy? What’d you dislike? Sound off in the comments below. While you think about that, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web in our morning roundup.

Newsarama – Canadian Town Wants To Erect WOLVERINE Statue (But No, It Won’t Be Adamantium) – Hells yes.

 

Reviews

Comicsverse – Doomsday Clock #2

IGN – Doomsday Clock #2

Newsarama – Doomsday Clock #2

IGN – Hawkman Found #1

Talking Comics – Quantum and Woody (2017) #1

IGN – Star Wars: Storms of Crait #1

Review: Hawkman Found #1

Posted on by

One of DC’S greatest heroes is missing! No one has seen or heard from Carter Hall-a.k.a. Hawkman-in years. Reincarnated repeatedly since the dawn of humanity, Hawkman has spent his many lives uncovering history’s most fantastic mysteries, and now he has become one himself! Take a journey into the one of the darkest corners of the DC Universe as a mysterious man tries to piece together what happened to Hawkman, and how it all connects to the events of Dark Nights: Metal!

So far, Dark Nights: Metal has been a winner. Even the events’ tie-ins have generally been good. But, there’s been some clunkers and Hawkman Found #1 is definitely in that category.

Writer Jeff Lemire is one of the best out there currently and even his talent can’t deliver much of a reason for this tie-in to exist. Up until this, we know Carter Hall went into the Dark Multiverse and now he overseas the Forge as a twisted version. You’d think we might get how that all came about with this issue but instead we just get the story for what we already know without the details. Carter Hall went into the Dark Multiverse after the Challengers of the Unknown and now he’s this giant being. From point a to c is missing a stop at b.

Instead, this issue reads like a mirror to the horror dream issue featuring Batman a bit back. The focus here is Hall instead and his history as Hawkman, sort of. Not a whole lot is explained and maybe fans of Hawkman will appreciate more. But, I’m not one, so who knows what went over my head.

The art by Bryan Hitch is decent and there’s lots of styles of characters mixed together. There’s so good angles and snapshots of the action but like the story, the art misses the mark a bit failing to deliver that “holy shit” moment of excitement.

The story and art are pretty lackluster. It’s off. Which is very weird. Lemire is better than this and the event is better than this. Probably why this feels like such a disappointment.

Story: Jeff Lemire Art: Bryan Hitch
Ink: Kevin Nowlan Color: Alex Sinclair, Jeremiah Skipper Cover Art: Liam Sharp
Story: 5.0 Art: 7.0 Overall: 5.0 Recommendation: Pass

DC Comics provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

Posted on by

Wednesdays are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in!

Each week our contributors are choosing up to five books and why they’re choosing the books. In other words, this is what we’re looking forward to and think you should be taking a look!

Find out what folks think below, and what comics you should be looking out for this Wednesday.

Actions Comics #994 (DC Comics) – Booster Gold and Superman… nuff said.

Batman: Creature of the Night #2 (DC Comics) – The second part of this series which explores the idea that Batman is just a story that inspires.

Bonehead #1 (Image Comics) – Any new Image series has us interested in checking it out.

Chasing Hitler #2 (Red 5 Comics) – Two soldiers are chasing Hitler who didn’t take his life at the end of WWII. An interesting debut and we’re looking forward to the second.

Detective Comics #971 (DC Comics) – The Victim Syndicate is on the move for what feels like a great follow up arc from their debut.

Doomsday Clock #2 (DC Comics) – The epic continues!

Eternity #3 (Valiant Entertainment) – An epic from Matt Kindt continuing from his the amazing concepts from Divinity.

Eugenic #3 (BOOM! Studios) – The final issue of this series which is a fascinating think piece about society.

Hawkman Found #1 (DC Comics) – Get the scoop on the return(ish) of this character with this “Dark Nights” tie-in!

Imaginary Fiends #2 (Vertigo) – The first issue was interesting and had a world where imaginary characters exist and they’re a bit evil.

Scarlett’s Strike Force #1 (IDW Publishing) – The series is already cancelled but we want to see where the next chapter for G.I. Joe goes!

Spider-Men II #5 (Marvel) – The miniseries wraps up and we’re excited to see where it goes from here!

Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Storms of Crait #1 (Marvel) – Learn more about the mysterious planet!

Tick 2017 #2 (New England Comics) – Enjoying the new Amazon series? Check out this brand new series with Cullen Bunn writing!

X-O Manowar (2017) #10 (Valiant Entertainment) – Writer Matt Kindt has been putting together an epic here. Definitely a series that’s not to be missed.