When I glanced through this at the store, I was a little reluctant to buy it.
In general, I think that people give Frank Miller too much credit for his RoboCop chops. Sure, he's the storyman for RoboCop 2, but he's also gave us RoboCop 3. Yeah, I kn
Read more…All Star Western Volume 2: The War of Lords and Owls
Collecing All Star Western #7-12
Writers: Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti
Artist: Moritat
DC Comics, $16.99, color, 192 pages
I don't have any intellectual things to say about All Star Western. I jus
Read more…The Shade
Writer: James Robinson
Artists: Cully Hamner, Javier Pulido, Frazer Irving, Darwyn Cooke, Jill Thompson, Gene Ha
DC Comics, $19.99, color, 280 pages
This has been out for quite a while, but I'm just getting to the bottom of my review pile,
Read more…I, Vampire Volume 2: Rise of the Vampires
Collecting I, Vampire #7-12, Justice League Dark #7-8
Writer: Joshua Hale Fialkov, Peter Milligan
Artists: Andrea Sorrentino, Daniel Sampere
DC Comics, $16.99, color, 192 pages
I'll give Fialkov credit: I ne
Read more…Wonder Woman Volume 3: Iron
Collecting Wonder Woman #0, 13-18
Writer: Brian Azzarello
Artist: Cliff Chiang
DC Comics, $24.99, color, 176 pages
What I like about the new Wonder Woman continues in the volume, so I enjoyed Iron immensely.
With the und
Read more…Paul Pope is interviewed by newsarama, and clears the air about one comment that was taken out of context at a comics panel, namely
Read more…Spoilers for Legion of Superheroes 23. You've been warned!
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So in the final issue of Legion, there are a few mentions of Superman... specifically, how he was speared and killed fighting Steppenwolf, which seems meant to imply that the Leg
Read more…My latest JLA/JSA team-up entry featured JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #231-232 (O-N'84) which guest-starred SUPERGIRL in the second of her two major JLA appearances. She previously was in JLA #132 (Jl'76) and #134 (S'76). It's hard not to notice that ne
Read more…Thunderbolts Volume 1: No Quarter
Collecting Thunderbolts #1-6
Writer: Daniel Way
Artist: Steve Dillon
Marvel Comics, $15.99, color, 136 pages
Sometimes I hate it when I'm right.
I was a regular reader of Thunderbolts, going back to its first incar
Read more…Adventures into the Unknown Volume 4
Collecting Adventures into the Unknown #16-20 (Feb-Jun 51)
Writers, artists: Various
PS ArtBooks, $49.99, color, 288 pages
I don't have a lot new to say about series collecting the ACG title Adventures into the U
Read more…Wolverine and the X-Men by Jason Aaron Volume 5
Collecting Wolverine & The X-Men #19-24
Writer: Jason Aaron
Artists: Nick Bradshaw, Steve Sanders, David Lopez
Marvel Comics, $17.99, color, 136 pages
I'm still enjoying Wolverine & The X-Men, but this
Read more…1)Next up we have a sequel to "The Curse of Peladon", one of those rare occasions where we see the Doctor deliberately re-visiting a planet. Maybe they still had the sets and wanted to amortize them?
2)As it turns out, Hepesh was pretty much right a
Read more…Green Lantern Corps Volume 2: Alpha War
Reprinting Green Lantern Corps #0, 8-14
Writer: Peter Tomasi
Artists: Fernando Pasarin, Scott Hanna
DC Comics, $24.99, color, 192 pages
If you read this book, I hope you have a high tolerance for the color gre
Read more…Green Lantern: New Guardians Volume 2: Beyond Hope
Reprinting Green Lantern: New Guardians #8-12, Blue Beetle #9
Writer: Tony Bedard
Artists: Tyler Kirkham, Batt
DC Comics, $22.99, color, 144 pages
My experience with this book was one of reading the
Read more…The Mammoth Book of Zombie Comics
Writers, artists: Various
Edited by David Kendall
Running Press, $19.00, B&W, 480 pages
This book has been out for five years, so I normally wouldn't review it (although I just read it). But it disappointed me enough
I was just watching an episode of "Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends," which you can watch right here or in the window below.
In it, they suggest that Spider-Man was a really, really popular wrestler/entertainer. So popular that he was attracting
What a great new debut! Someone at Marvel (*cough* Mark Waid *cough*) really gets it! I stopped reading Daredevil after Kevin Smith’s run (how long has that been? 15 years ago?), and have read only a handful of issues since. I know Matt Murdock has h
Read more…http://www.avclub.com/articles/rip-elmore-leonard,101834/
It's kind of sad to think that we won't have any more of his novels to look forward to.
Read more…Captain Atom Volume 1: Evolution
Collecting Captain Atom #1-6
Writer: J.T. Krul
Artist: Freddie Williams II
DC Comics, $14.99, color, 144 pages
Captain Atom has been presented a lot of different ways: He was essentially Charlton's Superman, he was t
Read more…As the dust settles on the first round of updates and revamps here at CapCom, and the bloggers/columnists get their own sections, I figured it was a good time to revive my original plan to blog via my vast archive of classic Ask Mr. Silver Age column
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