martinskidmore
02 September 2008 @ 08:01 pm

Ultimate Marvel Team-Up 2 by Brian Michael Bendis and lots of artists

This is odd: all written by Bendis, all but one story largely played for laughs. The last story, a rerun of an old Dr Strange, is most successful because it ran for two issues (and it has excellent Ted McKeever art). The FF and Man-Thing stories (the only one not written as more or less comedy) spend so long building up background and origin stories and all that that there is no room for stories. I liked the X-Men one, because it is just conversation, and cleverly balanced. Very missable, but a reasonably entertaining read.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
martinskidmore
16 February 2008 @ 12:00 am
Actually those aren't reviewed here - both pieces seemed substantial enough* to be worth putting on Freaky Trigger instead of here:

Enemy Ace

Spider-Man

I think I will routinely post links here if I put a review somewhere else, to sort of keep a single source for all of them, in case I want to find one again. I expect I will be putting a few reviews of architecture books up on my Japanese Arts website when I put that section together (a few weeks from now, I hope), for instance.

* Your mileage may vary