In praise of comic book movies

March’s Empire has a special section on comic book movies, to coincide with the releases of V for Vendetta, Mirrormask and X-Men 3. Irritatingly, they’ve gone for a 1960s Batman “pow! bang! smack!” pastiche for the cover(s) but we’ll let that pass. The first bit of (potentially) good news is that V gets a good… Continue reading In praise of comic book movies

All-Star DC

I bought issue one of All Star Superman (by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely) yesterday, and the first two issues of All Star Batman and Robin (by Frank Miller and Jim Lee). Generally, they both showed a lot of promise. Spoilers a-coming…