Dov Smiley

Yesterday I, like the rest of the comic book world, learned the heartbreaking news that comic book legend Joe Kubert had passed away. For those who do not follow comic book news and history, there are few comic professionals that have ever earned higher honors than Joe Kubert.

He began work, according to the introduction in his book Yossel, at the age of twelve, and for the next 73 years he worked on a large and incomparable body of work. He is one of the unmistakable fathers of war comics, having co-created Sgt.

The Dark Knight Rises

Concluding our look into the 2012 superhero movies comes the last, and in many ways most anticipated movie of them all. It is the finally of the Christopher Nolan Batman franchise, that has not only changed the way Batman is regarded, but forced the quality of superhero movie's into a new relm of critical acclaim. The excpectations of The Dark Knight were fully realized, becoming the highest grossing and best reviewed comic book inspired movie.

Now, with the finale, expectations could not be higher.

To conclude our series on Jack Kirby we take a look at OMAC. <Editor's Note: We lost this blog that should have run at the end of the summer. Dov Smiley's review of Jack Kirby's legacy was a big hit for us this year, and with the return of OMAC in DC's New 52, the misplacing of this blog is even more embarrassing. We hope that Dov will forgive our confusion, and present....>

The Smiley Spot's Kirby Review: OMAC

Fair warning: Here’s where things get weird.

The genesis of OMAC was the idea of putting Captain America, the indomitable spirit of the American soldier, into a dystopia.

Okay, I’ll try keeping this review short and easy to read, but something you should know about me…

I’m the biggest Blue Beetle fan ever. So the book being re-launched is kind of a very big deal for me.

At my first comic convention ever, I met some people in a line for autographs, and we were talking favorite comics. Nice guy that he was talked a bit about X-Men, and though I wasn’t reading the stuff at the time I was able to gage his interest. When he asked me what my favorite was I immediately said Blue Beetle, the Jaime Reye’s one. He looked at me, smiled and said,

“Oh, you’re a fan of

Flashpoint #4

Before my vacation, we were in the middle of reviewing DC’s Flashpoint miniseries. Issue #4 arrived in stores this week. It continued to chronicle Barry Allen’s adventures in this unfamiliar world.

This issue features the Flash, as always, running out of time to save the world. He is losing his mind, his greatest allies are his enemies; and the Reverse-Flash is able to control all of Barry’s actions. Unlike other events, readers no longer benefit from omniscient narration. Geoff Johns ensures that we are as lost as Flash is.