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April comics / cómics de abril
In March I got so many comic books, trade paperbacks and hardcovers, but in April I only got 4 comics. Space Bastards and Proctor Valley Road continue to be fun, Eternals is quite good but my favorite...
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The Punisher # 9-12 (2000) - Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon
Ennis never envisioned this series as a deconstruction of the vigilante archetype. Au contraire, this was always meant as a celebration of what it means to be a vigilante, a man who kills other men...
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Wonder Woman # 1 - George Pérez
Whenever I say John Byrne was the greatest creator of the 80s, I immediately have to clarify that Byrne was a great writer and a great artist, but as amazing as he was, on the artistic level I don’t...
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Special Comic For YOU!
Hi everyone! I just wanted to remind you that Dead Wrong is available on Comixology, you can check it out here:https://www.comixology.com/Dead-Wrong-1/digital-comic/832312 This is a very special...
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Marvel # 2 - Busiek, Ross, Darnall, Rude et al
The 8-month delay between the first and second issue (January 2021) of the anthology titled Marvel is due to the temporary shutdown of the American comic book industry in 2020. As many other...
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May films / películas de mayo
In May I was pretty busy with my qualifying exams here at UC Davis, so I decided to rewatch some oldies but goodies. This time I think everyone will be familiar with all these movies. Let’s start with...
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Machine Teen - Marc Sumerak & Mike Hawthorne
It’s funny how today quite often we end up reading comic books that were published a decade or half a century ago, or movies that were released in previous decades. I could never read only books that...
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Superman # 2 - John Byrne
John Byrne was ahead of his time. Let’s think about 2004, when Brad Meltzer wrote Identity Crisis, a fascinating miniseries that showed us how dangerous it was for a superhero to have their secret...
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May comic books / Cómics de mayo
In May I got some really promising first issues, such as The Marvels # 1 and Legends of the Dark Knight # 1. Proctor Valley Road and Space Bastards continue to be enjoyable. But my favorite single...
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Common Grounds # 2 - Troy Hickman, Ethan Van Sciver and Jurgens
When I started this blog I realized the greatest satisfaction of doing this was communicating directly with authors such us Neil Gaiman or from the creative team of Image series that were new at the...
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June films / películas de junio
In June I was busy with my trip to Peru so instead of watching movies I spent time with my family and ate delicious food in many restaurants. All in all, I still had time to see two new movies: Zack...
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June comic books / cómics de junio
The comic books I enjoyed the most this month came from DC Comics, the last time something like this happened was probably more than 10 years ago. My favorite comic book of the month was The Nice House...
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Captain America Tribute - Joe Simon, Stan Lee et al
In 1941, a small publisher by the name of Timely Comics, released the adventures of a certain star-spangled hero that served both as an American propaganda outside the US but also as an example of...
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Superman Legends Crossover - Byrne, Wolfman & Ordway
In 1986, DC started publishing Crisis on Infinite Earths, a miniseries that would forever change the DC Universe. A direct result of the Crisis, was the revamping on DC’s main superheroes, including of...
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Marvels Snapshots: Civil War & Captain Marvel
In 2006, while I was reading Mark Millar’s emblematic Civil War, I remember talking to my good friend Mark Harvey and explaining why I thought this had been an event much more interesting than the...
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July films / películas de julio
July was such an amazing month, I was very busy during my trip to Europe but before leaving the US I managed to watch The Woman in the Window (2021), directed by Joe Wright (and based on the novel by...
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Marvel # 3 - Busiek, Ross, Sienkiewicz, Weiss et al
As you might have noticed from the previous issues, the fantastic Alex Ross covers don’t necessarily correspond with the stories inside each issue, so for this issue, for instance, we have an...
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Common Grounds # 3 - Hickman, Bachalo & Jurgens
Whenever I go to Bizarro World, the comic book store here in Davis, I dive into the boxes full of back issues and I have unearthed some amazing treasures. In the past year or so, nothing has been...
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July Comic Books / Cómics de julio
On July 6, I flew from California to Spain. I spent 5 wonderful and incredibly fun weeks in Spain, Italy and Germany. So of course when I returned to California I had a lot of comics to read. So let’s...
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August films / películas de agosto
Based on Patrick DeWit’s novel and directed by Azazel Jacobs, French Exit (2020) is a fascinating exploration of the relationship between a mother, Michelle Pfeiffer (Chéri) and his son, Lucas Hedges...
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