Recent content by Dominic Davies

What's Actually Good (In Comics) #8 Welcome to ?What?s Actually Good,? the column that looks at the best the comics industry has to offer. This week, I review Brian Wood?s Northlanders and provide some analysis and discussion of Ed Brubaker?s Daredevil run so far. This as well as my weekly...

What's Actually Good (In Comics) #7 Welcome to ?What?s Actually Good,? the column that looks at what?s to come and what?s currently out in the colorful world of comics. In this issue, I resist the urge to use the horribly generic vampire pun ?sink your fangs into this? when I discuss Whedon?s...

What's Actually Good (In Comics) #6 In this issue, I go to thesauraus.com and type in ?imaginative? in an effort to find more words to describe Grant Morrison and discover that Brian K. Vaughan can make even a Wolverine book touching. Go figure. The books in question? All Star Superman and...

What's Actually Good (In Comics) #5 Welcome to What's Actually Good (In Comics), the column that looks at two books that are, well, actually good, as well as a bit of choice news and thuggery. In this issue I discuss Jonathan Hickman's Pax Romana and take a look at Mark Bagley's upcoming work...

What's Actually Good (In Comics) #4 Big, huge mega-events from either publisher are generally not the reality-warping, internet-exploding, mind-boggling tales of drama, mystery and suspense they are usually made out to be. I have developed a hard skin and fine cynicism toward them, and tend to...

What's Actually Good (In Comics) #3 Welcome to What?s Actually Good (In Comics), the column where I look at what?s currently out and what soon to hit the shelves, as well as a bit of news on the side to push up the word count. In this issue, I manage to spell J. Michael Straczynski?s name right...

What's Actually Good (In Comics) #2 Welcome to What?s Actually Good (In Comics), the column where we review and discuss what?s currently out and what?s to come from the comic industry. This week, a theme! The books we shall be discussing are each based on Homeric poetry and the Greek myths...

What's Actually Good (In Comics) #1 Welcome to "What's Actually Good," the bi-weekly look at what's currently out and what's to come in the comic book industry. This week I will be looking at Booster Gold from Geoff Johns and Mark Millar's upcoming Kick-ass. Permalink

What?s Actually Good (In Comics) "The brilliant writer of 100 Bullets, Brian Azzarello, recalls in an interview being told by a lawyer of all people 'novels are about what people think; plays are about what people say; and film is about what people do. And comics is about all of that, or has...

What's Actually Good (In Comics) #9 Welcome to the finale of ?What?s Actually Good!? In this special issue I look at how Kelley Puckett takes a coming-of-age approach to Supergirl to great effect and discuss Amazing Spider-Man in relation to Brand New Day and the series so far. All this, plus...