lmiller31

Name: Luke Miller

Well, the part everybody will probably care about most is my comic book nerd/fanboy credentials. I've been reading comics for about 3 years now, ever since I moved to college and discovered a comic book shop my sophomore year. I probably would've been reading them out of the womb if my mother's uterus had been comic shop adjacent. I was big into the superhero cartoons as a kid: Batman, Spider-Man, X-Men, but Batman was far and away my favorite. As a result, and because of having almost no money at the time, I decided I'd be better off completely immersing myself in one comic universe than just take a few titles from each. So, I read mostly DC books as a result, but I've been getting into a few more Marvel the past year or so (Cap, X-Men, Spider-Man, big events), and I get most books that aren't superhero books (Fables, Y: The Last Man, Walking Dead, etc) in trade, except for the dozen or so superhero titles that I absolutely love, which I buy in issues AND in trade... because I'm an idiot like that. I'm a sucker for giant hardcover collected editions (thanks a lot Captain America Omnibus, Vol. 1...) and try not to get paperbacks if there's even a glimmer of hope they might release it in Omnibus/Absolute/Deluxe/Library format.

As for the rest of my life, I'm a senior at the University of Nebraska with a history major. Everyone always asks me what I want to do when I graduate, and I always say "I dunno yet," because I'm much less likely to catch any grief than if I give them the real answer, which is "be a writer." I don't necessarily want to write comic books. It would be cool, but the industry seems incredibly hard to break into, and I'm not sure I'd be able to fully trust my work/vision in the hands of someone else to draw. (I've tried drawing... doesn't really work out.)

So, I'm working on writing a book, and I'd love to be some kind of "entertainment critic" although I realize that kind of makes me a leech, living off the creative works of others and passing judgement upon them. So, (at least until I can actually successfully put my own creative work into the public) my goal when writing reviews is to make the review itself a piece of entertainment. You read my review, you laugh, you cry, you hopefully gain some new insight into the book/issue that you hadn't had before, and we all have a good time. My goal is NOT to say read it/don't read it or buy it/don't buy it. That's completely up to you. You know what you like and you know what you don't. Think of my reviews more as short little essays about the merits and flaws of a particular work that will hopefully make you laugh at least once along the way.

I really love this site because it gives me an opportunity to write and put my reviews out there. And while I'm fairly certain the guys running the show here aren't going to ask me to join the staff or whatever, it's good practice nonetheless. So, please, feel free to comment on any of my reviews. Give me a 'review of my reviews,' if you will. Tell me what you like, what you don't, and hopefully it'll be better the next time around.

For Comics shipping on 12/04/08