Daniel Way

This graphic novel collects the first four issues of Daniel Way's 2009 reboot of Roy Thomas's 1970 Conan knockoff Starr the Slayer. The 21st-century version is an "adult" fantasy title from Marvel Comics' "Max" imprint. Richard Corben furnishes the art in his inimitable style. The story is very suited to Corben's work; it is a profanity-riddled barbarian-boy-makes-good adventure, with the narration provided in rhyming doggerel throughout by a ludicrous minstrel. Complication is provided by a show more hack pulp writer "Len Carson" (Thomas' creation), who is supposed to have invented the barbarian and his world, becoming enslaved by a fictional villain he created; thus the evil sorcerer Trull effectively has the demiurge as his thrall. This metaficitonal opus is sort of what you might get if a drunken 19-year-old D&D player tried to write James Branch Cabell's The Cream of the Jest.

This slender volume is a fast read, full of disgusting violence, nudity, and general hilarity. show less

Could there be anything more tiresome than yet another revision to Wolverine's history? Yes, there can be. Yet another Wolverine ripoff character. There have been many attempts at writing/rewriting his history and several attempts at creating characters that can be used to make more Wolverine-ish stories (X-23!), so now Wolverine apparently has a son with the seemingly same powers and seemingly same memory problems and seemingly same berserker rage - but wait! There's a difference! Now, he's show more a bad guy! to me, this is just a little lazy. It's basically Wolverine all over again. In fact, Wolverine goes to Professor X to try to do the same brainwashing on Daken that Professor X did on Wolverine back in the day, in yet another revision to his past.

The only reason I'm giving this lazy story anything more than 1 star is because the parts around the story are well written and the ending actually didn't go where I thought it was going to go, even though it still ended up paralleling Wolverine's own story a little bit too much. show less

Deadpool ALWAYS amuses me. After having completed the Classic Liefeld and Kelly runs, I had to check out the Way run (next will be Duggan). I always get a little nervous coming into a new run, but man was this satisfying.

Deadpool is CLASSIC as always, mouthing off, outwitting baddies for personal motives...just being his awesome self. The way he handles the Skrulls is so masterful and entertaining. I'm excited to continue with this run. I hope the rest of it brings me as many laughs as this show more first volume did! show less

This whole arc is so stupid. If Romulus wants an heir, then why doesn't he just get a sperm sample from both Logan and Daken, and then find some suitable surrogate mothers? He's got the cash. This whole There Can Be Only One bullshit is idiotic. At least choose someone who wants the job. Gah.

Meanwhile the usual points docked for the racism and sexism, while the Black Widow Ex Machina just made me laugh with disbelief. THAT is a huge favor Logan owes her, and he ought to have acknowledged show more that.

Also, the creepy father-son incest dynamics in the Romulus/Logan encounters are SUPER CREEPY. I don't even get where this is coming from, but it's gross. show less