Black Hammer

4.25ish stars. Maybe my favorite on-going title. Great character work and a solid, clever plot that deftly balances Golden Age superheroes with New Age struggles. It makes the '90s flashbacks feel like the '40s but it works. This is a big improvement over the first volume; now that the character stud Leggi tutto

One of the best ongoing comic series, winner of the 2017 Eisner award for best ongoing series, based in part on the trust they had that this team would create a great story. Lemire seems increasingly to bring together two things he loves: 1) Realistic, character-driven stories based in the bleak and Leggi tutto

-El mundo ha cambiado un poco desde el evento -No sabes lo feliz que estoy de que el mundo siga ahí. Luego de nuestra victoria hubo un flash de luz y aparecimos aquí -Me preocupaba que fuera el final de todo .Una de mis teorías era, ahora suena estúpido, bueno que esto era el cielo y que habíamos mue Leggi tutto

That's more like it! I didn't fall in love with the first volume of Black Hammer, the story was too uneventful and the characters felt derivative. Fortunately, I thought the second one was an improvement. The main storyline finally starts moving as we meet a new character, the daughter of the hero Bl Leggi tutto

With so many great titles in this comicbook era, it is easy to overlook this genius work written by Jeff Lemire. Black Hammer: The Event combines Lemire's themes of sadness, family and transcending yearning for love and acceptance with sci-fi and drama in this yet another great volume. Black Hammer' Leggi tutto