Entertainment Weekly Loves Comics
The latest issue of
Entertainment
Weekly (#765; May 14, 2004), is crammed with comic book
coverage. The subscribers-only supplement "Listen2This" has four
reviews:
- The Astonishing X-Men #1: A- (reviewed by
Jeff Jensen, who wrote the 2002
X-Factor mini-series for Marvel)
- Blacksad: A
- Queen & Country - Operation: Storm Front: A (no
mention of Carla Speed McNeil's art)
- 30 Days of Night: Return to Barrow: A-
"Listen2This" also lists four upcoming comics:
Heaven, LLC;
Grendel: Devil's Reign;
Transmetropolitan: One More
Time; and
Hench.
Comics are also mentioned in several spots throughout the regular
magazine:
- "News + Notes" discusses the progress (or lack thereof) on a
movie version of Watchmen (which is described as "the Citizen
Kane of the comic-book world")
- "The Must List" includes two comics: Marvel's Daredevil,
described as "Michael Corleone in spandex"; and The Complete
Peanuts (positively reviewed by EW a
couple weeks ago), praised as "pure happiness, like a warm puppy"
- Finally, DC's It's a Bird is reviewed in the
"Books" section and not only receives an A- but is also named
"Editor's Choice"
All this comic book coverage is great, but I want to know when
EW
is going to feature comic books on the cover. I want to see an
issue devoted to
EW's picks for the "100 Greatest Comics
of All Time!" (Yeah, list issues are kind of silly, but they
always seem to sell well and generate a lot of reader response:
"How could you forget _______?"; "How could you include _______?"; and
so on.)
