Flavor Of The Week: 6/13/08

As promised, more comic book mini-reviews done old school.
Action Comics #866: Good start to the Brainiac storyline. I suspect that the flashback battle between Brainiac and General Zod will be relevant later on, but otherwise it fleshes out an interesting piece of history. The rest of the issue shines with some much-needed development [...]

Close, But No Cigar…

Some things really irritate me. This, for instance.
Apparently, now it’s a problem to the AMA Alliance that General Thunderbolt Ross, the nemesis of the Hulk, is shown smoking a cigar in the Hulk movie. No major organization complained about Spider-Man making a deal with the devil to erase his marriage, or about Tony Stark getting [...]