Armor Wars #5 Review

My exasperation with Marvel's Secret Wars event and the growing trend of Marvel forcing the comics into a movie shaped position comes to a head in my review of Armor Wars #5, over on All-Comic
 

http://all-comic.com/2015/armor-wars-5/

Armor Wars #3 Review

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Another Secret Wars tie-in review over on Front Towards Gamer, this time looking at James Robinson's highly imaginative and enjoyable Armor Wars series, taking the name and nothing else from the classic Iron Man story.  Full review here:

http://ftg.operationsupplydrop.org/2015/07/17/armor-wars-3-review-comics/

Panel Vision - Golden Age, Bullet Points, & the Importance of Prose

The Golden Age was a four-part prestige graphic novel series by star writer James Robinson, published from 1993-1994 directly prior to Robinson’s seminal work on Starman.  The series is a little hard to quantify in terms of genre, the story takes place across several years and is more about the lives of its large cast of characters and the shifting flow of history.  There is a central binding arc concerning a charismatic superhero turned politician and his plan to build an atomic superman but for the most part that plot is actually very unobtrusive for the bulk of the story.  Eventually, as things build to a head in the 4^th installment and the various threads of conspiracy and villain fray into focus the plot becomes more focused and crystallized but for most of the series The Golden Age is just concerned with examining the lives and struggles of its cast of retired superheroes from DC Comics’ Golden Age.