Rogers, Irvine, Di Vito, and Bergting. Years ago, when the Vom Marlowe was but a tot, she played D&D. And before anyone leaps down her throat, she would like to be very firm and forestall complaints from all and sundry gameboys. Yes, it was D&D. Not AD&D. Played from a skimpy pamphlet and some funny [...]
What if Ord Resurrected Jean Grey instead of Colossus? Written by Jim McCann, Art by David Yardin, Ibraim Roberson, and Kai Spannuth. February 2010 One-shot. (It contains two other stories, but I don’t care one way or another about them, so I’m leaving them out.) I admit that I didn’t read the story about Ord [...]
Wonder*Woman, Zatanna, and Batgirl J. Michael Straczynski & Cliff Chang It looked good on the stand in the Borders, I swear. Three female superheroes, linked arm in arm, strolling over a bunch of fallen villains (including a monkey with a ray gun!). How could I go wrong? Well, to start off with, Wonder Woman makes [...]
This is my first Face Down in the Mainstream post here at our new home, and I assume there are some new readers. This column chronicles my attempts to find a mainstream comic to read and enjoy. Said comic must be currently running, not an older trade, and ideally focus on female superheroes, although I’m [...]
What’s different about Gantz is not that the power fantasy is nastier, but that it exists in a kind of blank fugue.
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