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This is an honor.
I discovered something incredibly cool this afternoon — it turns out that the good people over at Dark Horse Comics quoted me in their 2019 promotion of Matt Wagner’s superb Grendel: Devil’s Odyssey. The eight-issue limited series marked the return of the iconic Grendel Prime, who I last followed as a zealous young fan in the pages Grendel Tales (1993-1997), Batman/Grendel II (1996) and Grendel: Past Prime (2000).
Dark Horse quoted a review I wrote of Wagner’s Grendel: Omnibus Volume 1 (2012), which was a compilation of the writer-artist’s brilliant early work on the title.
I’m thrilled. Wagner’s a genius — and while Grendel’s dark, violent content is not for everyone, it’s always been a seminal title for the medium of comics. I remember greedily snapping up back issues when I was a college student in 1992 — I never thought the day would arrive when a review of mine would be referenced to attract new fans.
Cover to “The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide” #42, Matt Wagner, 2012
Hero Initiative Limited Edition. Gemstone Publishing.
Cover to “The Phantom Stranger” #0, Brent Anderson and Jeromy Cox, 2012
DC Comics.
Cover to “The Walking Dead: The Official Magazine” #1, Charlie Adlard, 2012
Variant Cover B. Titan Publishing.
Cover to “Carnage, U.S.A.” #2, Clayton Crain, 2012
Marvel Comics.
Cover to “Faustian Echoes” Album, Agalloch, 2012
Licht von Dämmerung Arthouse.
Cover to “Ultimate Comics Spider-Man” #16, Jorge Molina, 2012
Marvel Comics.
“(Space)-Time Hourglass,” Adrianos Sotiris, 2012
Oil.
A short and spoiler-free review of “Avengers: Endgame” (2019)
Mind. Blown.
If I could tell my 19-year-old self discovering superhero comics in college exactly how good their big screen adaptations would become, I wouldn’t believe me.
I saw “Avengers: Endgame” (2019) tonight with expectations that were very high. It was still better than I thought it would be. It was easily better than last year’s “Avengers: Infinity War” (although I think of them as two halves of the same epic movie). I don’t pretend to be a film expert, so take this as speculation — I personally think the pair of “Infinity” films have made comic-book movie history in the same manner as the original “Superman” (1978), Tim Burton’s “Batman” (1989) and Christopher Nolan’s “Dark Knight” trilogy (2005-2012).
I don’t really want to make any more observations, because I’m too afraid of inadvertently posting spoilers. But I will say that there is a massive tonal change between “Infinity War” and “Endgame.” The banter and humor of the former is largely left aside, and this concluding story is darker and far more emotionally sophisticated. It’s moving. It feels strange to write here, but I kept thinking during the movie that this was a more “grown up” Marvel film.
And it is EPIC. I honestly can’t imagine how Marvel can top it with future films. There is an action set piece that made my jaw drop. I can’t say more.
This is an obvious 10 out of 10 from me.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 