Books by Matt Fraction
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review 1: At first I hoped for a cohesive story rather than vignettes. However, when read back to back, one does emerge. An intelligent, slightly snarky, action filled case study of a lesser known but not less interesting Avenger and his protege. I'm not afraid to say that I'm hooked, n...
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review 1: A modern fantasy. Two people discover they can stop time once they achieve an orgasm. One uses this power to escape her depressing home life, the other uses it to "borrow" tapes from the porn shop. When they discover each other and their mutual super powers, what will they do nex...
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review 1: The second Hawkeye collection has all the style and swagger of the first, but between the one-off stories and the timeline jumping, this volume feels more fractured than the first. The opening chapter is the charming tribute to real-world heroism that are a normal part of superhe...
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review 1: Awkwardly paced. Apparently in issues it alternated between the two Hawkeyes, and I wish they'd kept that format, combining Kate's story with the forthcoming Clint-focused Rio Bravo. The bantering duo thing just works better.This volume is overly reliant on the reader enjoying th...
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review 1: As much as Hickman moved the F4 into full-on sci-fi territory (from what it had been in recent years), Fraction takes the family aspect that Hickman also heightened and heightens it further in truly fantastic (NPI) ways. Fraction does an incredible job writing the child character...
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review 1: 2.5 starsYeah, I dunno.Not too much to say really, just a few points:- As long as David Aja is doing the art it's awesome. Every other guest artist they get on this title? Sucks.- Kate Bishop is kind of a bitch.- I'm sorry, but Clint Barton is not that stupid, or that much of a l...
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review 1: It's insane how much I'm love this comic. The power couple Fraction and Aja return with their adopted children Clint Barton and Kate Bishop in the second volume of Hawkeye. This time around being almost impossibly more enjoyable than the first with my increasing love for Barton w...
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review 1: Suzie loves library books and stops time with her orgasms. (A girl after my own heart!) One night she meets Jon, who recites from memory the opening page of Nabokov's "Lolita" (which, in my opinion, is the best part of that novel). When she and Jon get down to the nitty gritty sh...
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review 1: I had picked up vol. 3 in this series at a sale on Free Comic Book day, and decided I needed to read the whole series. So, inter-library loan to the rescue (although vols. 1, 4, & 5 came right away, but no #2 yet). Anywho, The Five Nightmares is an excellent story involving a ver...
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review 1: I really liked this book. The question is, would I have liked it at the time it came out? It was very clear, around the time Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-men hit the shelves, everyone was feeling event fatigue. We went from Civil War to Secret Invasion, to Dark Reign. Seeing where...
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review 1: Just a solid read for me, I really like Fraction's take on the X-Men (this is coming after I've read some Brubaker, and Aaron's Schism, some Ellis (just a note to myself, Fraction's take on Cyclops is more sympathetic/positive compared to Ellis who definitely makes Cyclops a bit ...
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review 1: Hay hơn nữa, theo mình là tác giả đã cho Jon mắc ADHD và ODD, cho người đọc một góc nhìn về những người mắc bệnh tâm thần, vấn đề của họ, góc nhìn của họ. . . Và rằng khi yêu thì họ như thế nào. Họ cũng có thể yêu và được yêu như người bình thường vậy. Và như vậy nghĩa là họ cũng...
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review 1: Great ending to Kieron Gillen's epic Kid Loki story in Journey Into Mystery. I was a bit worried that tying it into the main Mighty Thor series would hurt the flow of the story but I'm glad I was wrong. Everything Burns really is one big story where both Thor and Loki are the sta...
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review 1: After reading the first hardcover and really enjoying it a couple of years ago, I wanted to come back to Invincible Iron Man particularly after reading a couple Marvel series where the quality dropped over time. It seems that Matt Fraction is perfect for this book and this is al...
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review 1: This is the weakest of the three Iron Fist volumes I've read so far, but it's still pretty good... just not as awesome as the first two volumes were. The three Iron Fist issues were pretty good but I was not a fan of the Orson Randall story as well as the two "Origin of Danny Ran...
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review 1: This collection gets four stars overall, even though the second storyline isn't as good as the first. There's a lot that's done very well.A passing knowledge of the Civil War and Secret Invasion storylines, at least, would be really helpful here, and it's set at the beginning of ...
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review 1: Tony Stark has a few nightmares that keep him up at night. One of those is that someone will improve the Iron Man technology and that someone won't be him. The son of an old foe comes onto the scene and he has upgraded the technology in terrifying ways and cannot be bought over o...
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review 1: This was a fairly good run. It follows the Civil War storyline, and Tony Stark is the director of SHIELD. It focused on his trying to maintain a balance between his company and SHIELD while faced with a series of terrorist attacks using his technology, perpetrated by the son of a...
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review 1: This is a good read. The main story starts off absolutely fantastically and it ends well, though I feel it could have been a bit better as it is slightly anti-climactic. Also, there is a lot of bonus material which in all honesty is not up to the standard of the main feature, tho...
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review 1: Carrying on the story of Tony Stark's rebirth - both as man and machine - Stark Resilient is, in essence, nothing more than a bit of filler in the build-up to the next big event.Setting the scene for his new business plan, Pepper's development and a new enemy on the horizon, the ...
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review 1: So, the end of the first five issues finds us with little plot development since issue #3. Don't get me wrong, I really like this series, but I'm feeling like it's kinda plateaued. The first two were great, #3 was really good, but the last two have been merely decent. Here's hopi...
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review 1: “Uh oh. Honeymoon’s over” says Jon, and, while he’s referring to a bump in his relationship with Suzie, he could well be referring to Sex Criminals #6, which sees a surprising dip in quality as Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky return for the next part in their sex/comedy crime dram...
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review 1: The writing was good for the most part. After the whole SECOND COMING drama this is sort of a getting back to "normal" story arch, and though Matt Fraction's writing is usually very good, there was not too much going on here. As for the art, ... pretty weak in my book. Sorry. I e...
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review 1: The problem with tie in books is always whether you know enough about both the title your reading and the things happening as part of the crossover event. In this case it worked very well for me and I enjoyed it as one of the stronger event tie ins I've read, but I can't honestly...
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review 1: The history of the Mandarin has a lot of good detail, but ends up running long [6/10]. The point-one issue tries way to hard to be clever and if anything that diminishes the impact of a pretty boring retelling of Stark’s history [4/10]. The Howard Stark flashback is good [7/10]. ...
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review 1: Okay, I'm going to review Resilient part 1 and 2 here, since it really is one story arc.The good: The characters and relationships. Tony Stark having to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of Dark Reign and Siege is probably the most interesting thing about this arc. The dialogue...
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review 1: Poor, poor Tony Stark. He’s gone from the Marvel universe pariah to whipping boy to fugitive and don’t get me started on the Illuminati. Meddling egghead bastards! Now, he’s in a coma and it’s Humpty Dumpty time for Iron Man. He’s wiped superhero identity data that was implan...
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review 1: Fraction can do no wrong with this series. I want to begin again and revisit this painful, yet necessary story. Stark's in trouble, serious, no-getting-out, trouble. There's little hope that he'll be back to the way he once was, there's little hope that he'll even make it out ali...
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review 1: Ooh I liked this one so much that it took longer to read because I kept emailing fragments of it to Tara.Like, yes, more Pepper/Rescue forever. Also yes to Tony snarking on Doc Ock forever. But most importantly, YES TO IRON MAN AND THOR ON THE MOON FOREVER. File that under things...
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review 1: A continuation of the story. I DON'T like how this major part about Tony Stark getting ousted and S.H.I.E.L.D. closing is just skimmed over in the "Previously" section. Oh, yeah, and this whole alien invasion that caused it to happen. WHAT? Also, Pepper is frumpy looking in this ...
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review 1: And now for something completely different. This volume contains four different stories collected together in one trade graphic novel. The first story is from an Iron Man annual edition and is about the Mandarin forcing an acclaimed movie director to make a propaganda film of his...
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review 1: I'm not sure if it was just me, but when I started reading Long Way Down, I felt like the first couple pages were a little jarring. Why was Tony talking to the Avengers and why were they so pushy about trying to help? After this though, the story got good and stayed good. Thin...
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review 1: I read this like ten minutes ago and don't remember what it was about, so that's a good sign. I was really hoping I could get through Fraction's run in what amounts to one sitting but I don't think I can do it. The Stark Resilient arc is about... cars, I think? He's making cars? ...
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review 1: This is one of those mish-mash volumes, collecting a few shorter stories that couldn't merit a book of their own. Overall, the lengthy Fraction/LaRocca run on INVINCIBLE IRON MAN was nothing short of phenomenal, but the lead story collected here - "Unfixable" - is mainly an inter...
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review 1: Yes. Just, yes. This 2nd volume takes place after Zeke Stane's attack on Stark, and right after the Secret Invasion, which places Norman Osborn in charge of SHIELD and Tony out of power and public enemy #1. Pepper Potts is in for a whole new life, Maria Hill is on the run as well...
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review 1: Reed discovers the cosmic particles that give him and his family their powers are slowly killing them. Keeping the discovery to himself, he orchestrates a family holiday trip through time and space on the pretext of educating the children while searching for the cure he knows is ...
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review 1: I had a rough time making it through the first half, but I'm glad I did. A lot of the focus on Dr. Strange was awesome, with a great intro story, but the constant narration, while occasionally very clever, wound up bogging my enjoyment of the book. The first story comes off as a ...
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review 1: I remember considering picking up the singles when this came out. But having been fairly disappointed by Fear Itself and having dropped Matt Fraction's run on Mighty Thor rather quickly, I simply didn't feel like picking up anything by the author for a while, even though the team...
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review 1: A writer like Matt Fraction deserves to be let loose every once in a while. His work on such series as Iron Fist, Iron Man, and Thor plays with big, weird ideas in a fairly simple, accessible ways, and comes across as engaging popcorn storytelling. Casanova is a different beast a...
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review 1: The last issue was the only comic in the series which I only halfway enjoyed rather than completely, and, having read this issue, I think it’s because I don’t like Jon. This issue kicks off with Suzie talking about the negative effects that her new birth control is having on her ...
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review 1: "Amazing! Ever since I saw this series in separate hardcover editions about four years ago I was intrigued because finally, Iron Fist has his own graphic novel! I was not able to acquire those books since at the time each costs hefty. Now, this paperback collection is a dream com...
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review 1: Though I was the rare reader who liked most of Fraction's run, I was let down by this final standalone volume. Battling dreams creating by dream creatures is almost never interesting because of the innate pointlessness of it. Then, there's the Blake plot. It started off interesti...