Words of Questionable Wisdom: What If Civil War Happened In the Real World? A Comics Nexus Event! Paul Sebert CAPTAIN AMERICA: Good God, did you see on the news? Nitro just blew up the town of Stamford Connecticut and killed the New Warriors. IRON MAN: This can only mean one thing. CAPTAIN AM »»
Words of Questionable Wisdom: Random Thoughts By Paul Sebert Ok, I wasn't quite sure what to do a full column about this week, so eh... just a small handful of thoughts I've had lately. Ok so we all know that Superman Returns follows the continuity of the first two Superman movies, but ignores tha »»
Words of Questionable Wisdom: Batwoman Year One By Paul Sebert Recently there was a memorable episode of the Daily Show in which John Stewart interviewed conservative activist Bill Bennett to debate the anti-Gay marriage amendment. I use the word "debate" loosely because the segment pretty much co »»
Words of Questionable Wisdom: The Passing of Alex Toth By Paul Sebert Alex Toth passed away this weekend at the age 77. Like many fans my age, I have alas far less comics work from the man in his prime than I would like. Toth's work spanned many genres from superheroes, to horror, to western, t »»
Words of Questionable Wisdom: Spring Term Final Exam By Paul Sebert Yes fellow students at Comics Nexus University, the month of May is upon us. It is time for graduations and children heading off on summer vacation. But for you CMU students, it's time to get out your number two pencils because t »»
Words of Questionable Wisdom: In praise of Zoom Suit Why I Love 2006's Gimmickiest Comic. By Paul Sebert To be honest I was sorely tempted to call this week's column "Sweet Christmas I Hate Wolverine Origins" as I found the first issue of Steve Dillon and Daniel Way's Wolverine spin-off book to be »»
Words of Questionable Wisdom You've Gotta Be Kidding Me; Comics on Shiny Disks By Paul Sebert From the 1958 Ford Edsel to Pepsi Blue the history of the consumer market is filled with ill-fated products that have been rejected by consumers. Every year hundreds, if not thousands of new commodities ar »»
No fancy logos for this column... just lots of bright shiny pink text. I'm Paul Sebert, longtime Nexus reviewer (AKA the Thursday guy) and former Marvel News & Views columnist during our 411 days. Welcome to the Frosted Pink Sugar Inferno, your regular source for tiny, tasty bite-sized reviews of »»
Words of Questionable Wisdom: Crisis Consoling: Nexus Style! With seemingly hundreds of Infinite Crisis related tie-ins and spin-offs hitting store shelves each week, it becomes a little easy to get lost in the mix. Unless you have a bank account big enough to support buying every single DC book as »»
[SPOILER WARNING: This essay involves fallout from New Avengers #16. If you have not read this book and do not want to know the ending, please click the "back" button on your browser.] Every so often there comes a point where a comic franchise finds itself hitting the wall. Writers find themselves »»
Reviewer: Paul Sebert Story Title: The Resurrection of Nicholas Scratch Part Three: Threshold of Revelations Writer: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Penciller: Valentine Delandro Colorist: Avalon's Dan Kemp Inker: Batt Letters: VC's Dave Sharpe Editors: Michael O'Connor, Warren Simons, & Joe Quessada Publi »»
Every so often a comics reviewer needs to show his poetic side, while cutting his comic reviews down to the bare basics. That and too much spare time is a dangerous thing. Enjoy these fellow members of the Nexus Nation. Infinite Crisis #4 Hey There Kids, Let's Watch Superboy Prime Murder! There's »»
Story Title: Last Man Standing Reviewer: Paul Sebert Writer: Joey Cacalieri Pencilers: Val Semeiks & Joe Cooper Colorist: James Sinclair Inkers: Livesay & Drew Geracia Letters: Pat Brosseau Editors: Harvey Richards, Stephen Wacker Publisher: Brand Echh So after 19 years, 230 issues, and more spee »»
Story Title: Back to Bone Reviewer: Paul Sebert Writer: Dan Slott Guest Artist: Scott Kolins Colors Art: Wil Quintana Letters: Dave Sharpe Editors: Tom Brevoort, Joe Quesada Publisher: The Merry Marvel Marching Society Having wrapped up the time traveling Hawkeye saga and the trial of the century »»
Story Title: Damaged Reviewer: Paul Sebert Writer: Sean McKeever Pencils: Joe Vriens Inks: Scott Hepburn Colors: Kevin Yan Letters: VC's Joe Caramagna Editors: Mouy Lazer, Marc Sumerak, and Joe Quesada Publisher: The House of Ideas It is heavy metal mayhem time as Juston's Sentinel faces off in i »»
Words of Questionable Wisdom: Flash In the Pan? Just what's wrong with the newest incarnation of DC's Fastest Man Alive? By Paul Sebert From a marketing standpoint there's a secret formula that stretches back to the golden age of comics to all good franchises: brand extension. Two years after the »»
Words of Questionable Wisdom: Looking Back in Horror at the History of Gay Comic Book Characters. Northstar As You've Never Known him Before! By: Paul Sebert A new Batwoman is set to debut, Young Avengers has received a GLAAD Media Award, and Smallville is entering it's 6th season on the CW Netwo »»
Erik Larsen, the creator of Savage Dragon and publisher of Image Comics has weekly column at Comic Book Resources called "One Fan's Opinion" in which he likes to express his views on a variety of subjects ranging from his fandom of Captain Marvel to continuity in the Image Universe (or Multivers »»
Words of Questionable Wisdom: Answers To The Spring Term Final Exam By Paul Sebert Alright Folks... last time we at WoQW we quized you on current, and obscure comic book trivia. Let's see how you did. 1. Which alternate Marvel Universe did the Exiles Not visit during the recent World Tour storyli »»
Words of Questionable Wisdom: 5 Points To Keeping Young Readers Around By Paul Sebert Another free Comic Day has come to pass, along with reports from stores filled with smiling children and to be quite honest it still boggles my mind that not only are there people out there who believe that kids »»
Words of Questionable Wisdom When Makeovers Go Wrong By Paul Sebert We've already talked about the worst DC movies and the menace of comics on shiny disks but this week I decided to talk about makeovers. Much as purists like to protest, the medium of comics must periodically reinvent itself or di »»
In the original 1966 Batman, there's a great scene in which Adam West's Dark Knight finds himself trying to dispose of a cartoon-style bomb but finds himself thwarted innocent bystanders at every turn. Nuns, schoolchildren, and even a flock of baby ducks all serve as obstacles as the Caped Crusader »»
Omaha #2 Reviewer: Paul Sebert Art: Reed Waller Script & Plot: Reed Waller & Kate Worley Publisher: Amerotica Debuting in the pages of an anthology magazine named Vootie in 1978, Omaha is one of the longest running, and important indy comics of all time. It's also one of the most controversi »»
Mouse Guard #1 Story Title: Belly of the Beast Reviewer: Paul Sebert Writer: David Peterson Art: David Peterson Publisher: Archaia Studios Press Set in a world in which intelligent rodents struggle to survive in a world filled with hardships and hungry predators Mouse Guard tells the tale of an e »»
Story Title: New Kid In Town Reviewer: Paul Sebert Writer: Dan Slott Penciler: Juan Bobillo Inks: Marcelo Sosa Colors: Avalon’s Dave Kemp Letters: Dave Sharpe Editors: Tom Brevoort, Joe Quesada Publisher: Mighty Marvel Publishing Group If there’s one thing that I »»
Reviewer: Paul Sebert Story Title: League of Losers Part 3 Writer: Robert Kirkman Penciler: Paco Medina Colorist: Studio F's Marte Gracia Inker: Juan Vlasco Letters: VC's Rus Wooton Editors: Molly Lazer, Aubrey Sitterson, Andy Schmidt, Tom Brevoort, & Joe Q. Publisher: Protip - The name of the boo »»
Story Title: The Edwina Crisis: Prologue Part Six Reviewer: Paul Sebert Writer, Art, Inking, Coloring, etc: Kyle Baker Editor: Joe Vavalieri Publisher: Detective Comics Comics There are two types of people in this world... 1.People who read and love Kyle Baker's Plastic Man. 2. People who hate co »»
Story Title: Dead a Long Time Reviewer: Paul Sebert Writer: Peter Milligan Artists: Nick Dragotta & Mike Allred Colorist: Laura Allred Letters: Blambot's Nate Piekos Editors: Michael O'Connor, Warren Simons, Axel Alonso, and Joe Quesada Publisher: Not Brand Echh! For years one of the mysteries of »»
Some folks call it the Dark Age... Some say it's still part the muddled Modern Age of Comics we live in now. I call it the Bastard Age of comics. A thoroughly unloved and irregular era of comics history marked by garish art and dubious writing. And loath as I am to say it, I myself as a fan am as »»
