http://comicgenius.today.com Comic Book and Comic-Related Discussion Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:36:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I started reading Kurt Busiek's Secret Identity yesterday. My prior knowledge was minimal, only knowing that it was about a kid named Clark Kent who always was teased because he had the same name as the fictitious Superman. But he soon finds out that he has Superman's abilities, ... http://comicgenius.today.com/2008/08/31/secret-identity/ It had been all over the Internet comic universe for weeks--was Warner Bros. going to follow the Batman mold and reboot the Superman franchise? According to an interview in The Wall Street Journal it appears the answer to that question is a definitive yes. Truthfully, I think it's a good ... http://comicgenius.today.com/2008/08/25/on-rebooting-the-superman-movie-franchise/ The question of who stole (and yes, he really was stolen) the Green Arrow's son after he was shot and proclaimed to be in a coma potentially for the rest of his life has been one of those stories I was starting to think would never end. I can't ... http://comicgenius.today.com/2008/08/24/who-stole-connor-hawke/ I went to the comic book store today. Legion of Three worlds was one of the books I intended to pick up because...well, it's Superboy Prime. Also, I read the preview on Newsarama earlier this week and it caught my attention. See, I can't even say that I know ... http://comicgenius.today.com/2008/08/23/final-crisis-legion-of-three-worlds/ The third installment of Grant Morrison's summer event is finally starting to take shape. The issue was actually released two weeks ago, but I only got the chance to pick it up and read it yesterday. Boy, was it good. Admittedly, the first two issues were dense ... http://comicgenius.today.com/2008/08/21/final-crisis-3/ Considering these two stories are only a few years old, it's amazing to me that I don't hear them referenced hardly at all? Do most people really consider them that bad? I mean, it's Greg Rucka as a writer. And I KNOW I've expressed by book-nerd love ... http://comicgenius.today.com/2008/08/17/forgotten-recent-superman-trades/ Spoilers are everywhere. Casual fans of anything, not just comics, can find spoilers online if they know where to look. Finding--and reading--those spoilers is usually what makes a casual fan a fanatic who actively searches out the spoilery information on a regular basis. Spoilers can be found for anything--TV, ... http://comicgenius.today.com/2008/08/16/to-spoil-or-not-to-spoil/ Yes, life is changing. I've spent the majority of the last two days in New Teacher Orientation, and many more hours this week trying to get ready for school to start. So I got to thinking. How am I going to stay up to date with comics ... http://comicgenius.today.com/2008/08/14/keeping-up-when-everything-is-pushing-you-away/ Taking into consideration everything that's on my pull list right now, I think I might have to add another title in the near future. And this one would be completely different from everything else on my list. In some ways, the book is the polar opposite. But ... http://comicgenius.today.com/2008/08/11/new-favorites/ This Newsarama article from Friday is full of all kinds of interesting Superman history. The new information comes about as the Siegel family is in court over the copyright to Superman and Superboy with DC Comics. As part of the court appearances, DC released these papers as a way to ... http://comicgenius.today.com/2008/08/10/more-on-the-supermansiegel-lawsuit/