The Full Run

Good news! Barry Allen’s back from the dead! But Batman’s MIA, Superman is sidelined, Martian Manhunter’s still dead, and Wonder Woman’s over-matched. As more heroes fall off the board, it’s clear...

Even though it’s a beast wholly unto itself, Final Crisis was still an event book. With that came the usual nonsense like overenthusiastic (and misleading) marketing, and tie-ins. It should come as a...

After a first issue that stretches back to the beginnings of the DC Universe, Final Crisis #2 kicks off by going international. From tying into Morrison’s Seven Soldiers of Victory to the next strike against...

Comic book events are designed to be welcoming to new readers, or at least those with a cursory knowledge of a given publisher’s universe. They embrace a broad strokes approach to storytelling, capturing big...

If there are two overarching themes found in the works of Grant Morrison, they are metatextuality and all stories matter. Both of them can be found in the pages of Final Crisis, arguably the most polarizing...

Chase Magnett: The best part of Civil War #7 is knowing we are almost done. It has been a long trail over the past seven weeks as we’ve walked this long beach of comics criticism. Sometimes there were only...

This whole series manages to sum itself up fairly well here in this issue when Captain America kicks The Punisher out of his super secret team of Avengers for killing a couple of criminals. The sentinel of...

Does Thor know Dagger? Within the universe of Marvel Comics, Thor is a member of the elite superhero organization and would be known worldwide by everyone the way you know about the most dominant figures in...

Civil War #3 begins by briefly showing readers what sanity looks like. After a splash meant to remind everyone Peter Parker revealed his secret identity to the public, the big cliffhanger at the end of Civil...

A year ago, I volunteered to write about a terrible, over-hyped yet historically important event comic book called Crisis on Infinite Earths and, proving that I don’t learn shit, I volunteered to write about...