Much in the same way that The X-Files, upon which Saucer Country draws no small amount of inspiration from, used what were essentially two seperate-but-equal pilot episodes to first establish the characters of Mulder and Scully, then to establish the government conspiracy they would be fighting against for the next six years (7? 8? 9? […]
It was well known even going into The New 52 that Green Lantern would be changing the least out of any of DC’s line, with the September-released Green Lantern # 1 continuing directly on from Green Lantern # 67, released several months previous. At the time the initiative was announced, it was thought that Green […]
What better way to ring in the Easter holiday than to discuss the completion of the modern reinvention of America’s favorite non-religious messianic figure? What started 8 months ago as a fresh look at Superman’s roots has turned into one of the most thorough reconstructions of the character and his surrounding myths to appear in […]
Swamp Thing excited a lot of people when it started seven months ago. Part of it was the creative team – Scott Snyder is extremely buzzy at the moment, and Yanick Paquette just seemed like a perfect choice to draw Earth’s elemental. A lot of that excitement has worn off, though, at least around Ground […]
Last September, there was one book that more people around Ground Zero were talking about and anticipating more than any other, and that was Justice League Dark. Arguably the best concept to come out of the New 52, it unfortunately lacked somewhat when it came to follow-through. While very much a solid book, with some […]
One of the most contentious points of the entire relaunch thus far has been the induction of Wildstorm characters into the mainstream DC milieu. While some have embraced it as another step in DC’s longstanding tradition of taking abandoned characters and giving them a shiny new coat of paint and a good home, others have […]
2 writers, 2 artists, 2 stories – that’s the idea behind Batman Beyond Unlimited, a sequel of sorts to the short-lived pre-New 52 Batman Beyond series, which was itself a sequel to the animated series of the same name. The 2 stories in each issue are available separately digitally (as Batman Beyond and Justice League […]
Seven months on, Justice League is still the second most-ordered book at Ground Zero Comics, after Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s red-hot Batman run. When’s the last time that happened? When’s the last time that a book has proven so popular, and kept up that popularity in such a fickle medium, where the average customer […]
In my review of Star Trek: Fleet Captains, I claimed that it was the best Star Trek game I had ever played. That is still true. No game captures the feel of the Trek universe better, or more comprehensively, than Fleet Captains. That game is a masterpiece of marrying a license to innovative gameplay mechanics, […]
Or “The day Fox Mulder ran for president.” Arcadia Alvarado has problems, and they are neither little, nor green, although most of them do involve men. She’s divorced, she’s Hispanic, and she’s female, and despite all of this, she’s running for president of the United States of America. She’s also convinced that she was recently […]