Truth be told, I wasn’t really looking forward to reading Superman: Earth One. J. Michael Straczynski was already in the middle of writing for the regular Superman comic, with his insanely ambitious and head-scratching Grounded arc, which aims to make Superman reconnect with ordinary people by taking flying out of the equation and making him walk throughout America. Grounded’s been a mixed bag so far, with a great first issue and with every other issue devolving into a boring and preachy mess, which shows that there’s only so much you can do with Superman not punching stuff.

I admit that my opinion of Grounded has been influenced by comparing it with the infinitely better All-Star Superman, but that’s another story. Also, I’ve had my misgivings about Earth One from the first time I saw the preview art. Brooding Superman in a hoodie? When the hell did Superman become a hobo-hipster, and more importantly, since when did anyone think that brooding Superman was a great idea? 

Superman: Earth One was meant to present Superman’s origins in a modernized and reimagined way, not unlike Superman: Man of Steel, Superman: Birthright, and more recently, Superman: Secret Origin. This has been the third attempt to reimagine Superman’s origins for this decade, but unlike the three other origin stories I’ve mentioned before, Earth One does not attempt to reimagine Superman’s origins in mainstream continuity. It’s a huge hardcover original graphic novel, free from decades of continuity of DC’s shared universe. It is sort of an Ultimate Universe version of Superman. (continue reading…)

After eight agonizing months of SUCK and feminist propaganda, that terrible arc is finally over! And Brian Wood comes back with church-burning vikingness! Hells yeah! Yes kids, Northlanders is awesome again! And I’m gonna review four straight issues!

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Hi! This is Ade and RJ. We here at Comicgasm like to pretend that we are serious bloggers with serious taste. With that said, we made this post just to say that we will NOT make a review of Superman/Batman: Apocalypse because it didn’t have any sex scenes and/or nudity it is beneath us.

Instead, we’ll just post screencaps of badly shaded nude Supergirl and Barda wearing only towels.

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To be honest, I never really had high hopes for Spider-Man: One Moment In Time to begin with. Brand New Day was rocking like crazy, giving us some of the best Spider-Man stories in twenty years like Shed and The Grim Hunt. Most of us were willing to forget the whole One More Day ordeal. Spider-Man made a fucking deal with the devil to save his aunt’s life, and the cost was his marriage and give or take five years of his life, and surprisingly, there are a few nerds that are willing to live with that. It’s not a pretty situation, but if it means great stories, than it can’t be all that bad, right?

Just when we were all starting to enjoy Amazing Spider-Man once again, Joe Quesada pulls O.M.I.T. out of his ass to answer questions nobody was asking. The whole premise of O.M.I.T. was simple – since Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson were no longer married, what happened? How did Aunt May survive being shot in the freaking stomach? And how the hell did the world forget Spider-Man’s identity?

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The first issue of “The Sixth Gun” published by Oni Press and created by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt was made available to the public during Free Comic Book day. The first issue packed so much punch and made you want to read more which is a testament to how well-written it is.

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