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DC Retroactive: Wonder Woman – The ’70s 1 (September 2011)
I’ve never read Denny O’Neil’s seventies Wonder Woman, so I can’t compare this flashback to it. I know the seventies didn’t have J. Bone—imagine Darwyn Cooke if he was incompetent—so the art must have...
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Rocketeer Adventures 2 4 (June 2012)
John Byrne easily does the best story in this issue. Really. And he can even draw Peevy. He lays out his story well, though the details on the characters aren’t any great shakes. The Rocketeer’s funny...
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The Rocketeer: Hollywood Horror 1 (February 2013)
In the past, I think I’ve referred to J. Bone as some kind of Darwyn Cooke wannabe. I take it back. I regret making those statements, though Hollywood Horror seems to be a breakthrough for him. He...
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The Rocketeer: Hollywood Horror 2 (March 2013)
Langridge really embraces the Thin Man tie-in. It’s without names, instead of him doing thinly veined homages. It’s a nice touch, sending Betty off on her own adventure without Cliff. Actually,...
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The Rocketeer: Hollywood Horror 3 (April 2013)
Oh, Langridge is just having too much fun now. He reveals the narrator–Groucho Marx. It’s a hilarious little detail; it doesn’t make any sense yet (how he’s omniscient but he’s Groucho so who cares)....
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The Rocketeer: Hollywood Horror 4 (May 2013)
Everything ties up nicely for the finish. I’m still trying to determine how Langridge made this take on The Rocketeer. He’s turned Cliff into a young doofus, added Groucho Marx as the narrator and so...
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The Rocketeer/The Spirit 3 (November 2013)
So J. Bone takes over the art. Maybe the intention was always a different artist on each issue, but it doesn’t play particularly well. Bone does very nice homage to Eisner’s character design without...
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The Rocketeer/The Spirit 4 (December 2013)
And there’s a nice happy ending with no resolution to any of the lame character subplots Waid brought into the series to try and give it some semblance of a story. But apparently all Cliff needs is a...
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The Saviors 1 (December 2013)
Weird. Weird is a good word for the first issue of The Saviors. The J. Bone art–black and white–is good. It’s simultaneously energetic and pensive. He’s drawing the word from the perspective of the...
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The Saviors 2 (January 2014)
Thanks to the double page spreads, this issue has something like seventeen pages of story. Only most of it is action stuff with the stoner lead on the run for the sheriff. Only the sheriff is now a...
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