Franco_Macabro's Profile

I remember a time when a comic book featured a complete story, not just one scene. Fraction and Jimenez waste a whole issue on a conversation that could have taken up four or five pages (and that could have been more interesting). Jimenez knows enough about layout to make it look good, but all those black panels with text could have been put to better use.

Awesome comic book so far, I know Absolute Batman is the talk of the town right now, but this Batman is very different, but just as good in terms of quality. Both the writing and the art are compelling. On this issue Batman visits The Joker and it feels like a scene from Silence of the Lambs with Clarice visiting Hanibal Lecter...it all leads to a "revelation"...Jorge Jimenez's art is perfection, I hope he stays on the book for a very long time. more

I love everything Phillip Kennedy and Nic Klein have been doing with The Hulk.The whole mother of horrors story lines was amazing, I mean, turning The Hulk into a horror comic was the right move, considering he is for all intents and purposes "a monster". Love how gory and monster filled it's gotten, Nic Klein just takes it over the top with his art. It's not the first time in The Hulk's history t hat Hulks monster and human side have been separated, I love where it's going though, with the whole "hell on earth" idea...I look forward to every issue. Will Bruce and The Hulk reunite?more

So Im guessing Joe Kelly watched the Japanese horror film Spiral and decided to take Spiderman on the same journey. People dying in deaths that all have to do with a spiral...the redeeming factor for me here is seeing Peter and MJ reconnecting...could a reunion be on the horizon? Personally, I don't like crossovers because they just feel like Marvel is trying to get you to buy all these other book s...which of course is entirely their purpose here. Let's hope the story will prove to be interesting and eventful enough to make it worth our time and money. more

Enjoyed this story about a secret gambling society, that plays games which determine the fate of humanity. There's all types of players, most of them demons and monsters and there's certain rules to the game, or you die! Loved the world, the lore, the games and the art style! Zamudios art was reminiscent of Mike Mignolas style, playing with light and silhouettes. Recommended for lovers of the magi cal and the bizarre, the horrifying. Left with an open door to future series, where other games are played and the fate of the world is hanging in the balance? more

I loved this series, it felt like an old film noir. It had all the right elements, a detective, a dame in peril, a dangerous city...but all in a world in which all types of monsters live in one city, werewolves, zombies, vampires, mummies all living together but not in peace! The city is L.A. like I'd say. The main character is the classic doomed detective. This comic was like mixing a film noir w ith an old Universal Monsters movie. more

I haven't been enjoying Superman for a while now...too many things happening all at once, jumping from one event to another...where's that story that I can follow and enjoy? Nowhere to be seen, because it's all tied in to something else I am not reading. Great art, but it's all one big mess as far as I'm concerned. Writer really need to have their audiences in mind when coming up with their overly complex stories...don't lose your readers, make sure concepts and ideas are understood...this books too messy for me right now! I stick to it only because I love Superman and hope that it will get better. more

Loving the concept, basically, we see the story from the zombies point of view. They talk amongst themselves about being a zombie and about eating brains. One of them is Poke, the main character, who suddenly starts hearing his heart beating again! Could he be becoming human again? The artwork by Stipan Morian is amazing, it reminds me of Sam Kieths artwork, so yeah, I kept thinking of The Maxx wh ile reading this one. Loved the first issue, can't wait to see where this one goes. more

One of the weakest Spider Man runs in years...it simply repeated in a very rushed way story lines and crossovers from previous years (like Inferno and Gang War) and then added a bunch of incredibly awful "new characters" though I don't know how new you can label spiderman version one million. Quit it with all the variations of Spiderman, we just want regular old Spiderman! It felt like way too man y things were happening from issue to issue, stories just don't flow in a normal fashion...so its a bombardment of ideas and situations that we've already seen and have been done better before. The new stuff is not good enough to be memorable. more

I miss the Jason Aaron/Juan Ferreyra team, but I have to say that the new team is starting to grow on me. The artwork by Freddie Williams is top notch, beautiful colors and is actually understandable and the story by Gene Luen has me, I mean, is Master Splinter truly back or is something weird going on? Splinter is back and of course, that alone is exciting, no wonder my local comic shop sold out this issue! We get to see Splinter and the love of his life share the after life and it is explained to us how and why he came back, which presents us with an interesting premise.The story has a few elements in common with say, the Terminator movies, because now Splinter knows how the turtles are going to die and who kills them, so he will attempt (with the help of the turtles of course) to change it. Or can he? This one ends on an awesome cliffhanger! TMNT is one of my favorite books out right now, IDW is consistently picking excellent writing/drawing teams who have been producing some awesome work. I am probably not alone in saying this has been one of the best TMNT runs in a while. Don't mess it up IDW! Keep the level of quality going! more