http://www.alternatecover.com A new comic review EVERY weekday! Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:02:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thanks, Amazon. http://www.alternatecover.com/2010/03/20/good-things-happen-to-bad-people/ I love the title. I think the cover's the best of the six. The only thing I'm upset about is that four months and a day is simply FAR. TOO. LONG. to wait. More info from Oni here. 20th July, people. The most important comics day of the year, if not ... http://www.alternatecover.com/2010/03/19/scott-pilgrims-finest-hour/ While deconstructing the new Gorillaz album into its component artists, I came across the following track from UK grime artist Bashy. It's called Superheroes and it demonstrates geek credentials that make Weezer look like a bunch of posers for that single "Kitty Pryde and Nightcrawler" reference they did like fifteen ... http://www.alternatecover.com/2010/03/18/earth-grime/ Although, as fellow CDer Julian has pointed out, the last time I excitedly showed him a comics movie first teaser poster that brilliantly replicated something from the book it was Watchmen, it's hard not to have a spectacular grin on one's face when looking at this. And "An epic of epic ... http://www.alternatecover.com/2010/03/17/just-yes/ One of the things that often presented a challenge to our "review a day" format at Comics Daily was the sheer inconsistency of comics shipping - the fact that, although there should really ostensibly be a fairly even spread of comics worth reviewing (whether a book we're buying anyway, or ... http://www.alternatecover.com/2010/03/16/new-comics-roundup-for-we-16th-march-2010/ That wily old fox Bryan Lee O'Malley has set internet tongues a-wagging this morning, by posting on his twitter feed a heavily pixellated image that looks like it is in almost all certainly the cover to the so-far untitled sixth and final Scott Pilgrim book. While we're still waiting for ... http://www.alternatecover.com/2010/03/16/bryan-lee-omalley-teases-scott-pilgrim-6/ Subscribers will already have a copy, but those of you in the UK are now able go out and buy the first issue of Comic Heroes, a quarterly magazine spinning out of SFX that is, as the name suggests, entirely comics-related. The release date is technically the 16th, but people ... http://www.alternatecover.com/2010/03/15/comic-heroes-out-tomorrow-if-not-earlier/ Comic Book Resources reports that the current Power Girl team of Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray will be leaving after issue #12. If you read my recent review of Power Girl #8 you'll know that even as the site's designated Marvel zombie, I felt that this was a ... http://www.alternatecover.com/2010/03/13/conner-gray-palmiotti-leave-power-girl/ If you're not enjoying Batman & Robin, I really have to wonder what you're doing reading superhero comics at all. It runs on sheer exuberance, expanding the "figurative exploration of the Batman myth" theme of Morrison's earlier run on the main title in a way that is simultaneously more simplistic ... http://www.alternatecover.com/2010/03/12/batman-robin-10/ You've probably already had a look at Seb's review of the latest issue of Demo, but I also wanted to point people in the direction of the review of it I wrote for CBR. If only because it articulates a little of what I love about the series (and because ... http://www.alternatecover.com/2010/03/11/demo-v2-2-again/