The Fade Out, Act One
Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips
Image Comics
The incomparable creative team of Brubaker and Phillips has always been at its best doing crime stories, and this new series starts out firing on all cylinders. The Fade Out supplies
Read more…With all the upheavals in the Marvel Universe (and more to come), the initial lineup of the Unity team lost Captain America (Steve Rogers) to old age, Thor to shame and Wolverine to death AKA a vacation until Disney can use him in their movies. Thus
Read more…Stray Bullets Vol. 6 – Killers
David Lapham
Image Comics
The original run of Stray Bullets ended in 2005. When David Lapham decided to bring it back in 2014 he chose to publish the new issues as a series of titled miniseries--but the collections
Read more…Seconds
Bryan Lee O’Malley
Ballantine Books
The followup to the Scott Pilgrim series was a long time coming. Seconds is a self-contained graphic novel, although it does share some common elements with the Scott Pilgrim books, namely cute young adul
Read more…Alex + Ada – Vol. 1
Story By Jonathan Luna & Sarah Vaughn; art & cover by Jonathan Luna
Image Comics
A science-fiction story about the relationship between humans and robots. This future looks a lot like today, except for all of the helper robots i
Read more…Southern Bastards Vol.1: Here Was A Man
Jason Aaron, writer; Jason Latour, art & color
Image Comics
Co-creators Aaron and Latour were both born in the South (although Aaron doesn't live there any more): this series is their way of making peace wit
Read more…Creepy Archives Vol 19
Writers/Art: Various
Reprinting Creepy #89-93 (Jun-Nov 77)
At this point in Creepy history, the magazine was doing a lot of theme issues. Mostly they were "strange sports" issues, with covers showing robot baseball pitchers thr
Read more…The Unwritten Vol. 10 – War Stories
Mike Carey, writer; Peter Gross, artist
Vertigo Comics
Tom Taylor has been trying to find his way back to our world for some time in this series. He’s been wandering through stories--with a significant trip throu
Read more…Dead Boy Detectives Vol. 1 – Schoolboy Terrors
Toby Litt, writer - story; Mark Buckingham, penciller - layouts - story; Gary Erskine & Andrew Pepoy, inkers; Russ Braun & Victor Santos, finishers
Vertigo Comics
Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner created th
Read more…Deadly Class Vol. 1: Reagan Youth
Rick Remender, script; Wes Craig, pencils & inks; Lee Loughridge, colors
Image Comics
A high school drama with a difference, because this school is the Kings Dominion School for the Deadly Arts--training ground f
Read more…Velvet Vol.1 – Before The Living End
Ed Brubaker, writer; Steve Epting, artist; Elizabeth Breitweiser, colors
Image Comics
If you like a good spy story, you've come to the right place. Brubaker is rightly known for his crime comics (especially Crimin
Read more…Manhattan Projects Vol. 4: Four Disciplines
Jonathan Hickman, writer; Nick Pitarra, artist
Image Comics
As with other recent Hickman collections, this volume has a subtitle everywhere except on the book itself. As the story opens we see Oppenheime
Read more…Swamp Thing Vol. 4: Seeder
Charles Soule, writer; Kano, Jesus Saiz & Alvaro Lopez, artists; Matthew Wilson, colorist
DC Comics
New writer Charles Soule opens this collection with what feels like a fresh introduction of the character (especially a
Read more…Animal Man Vol. 4 – Splinter Species
Jeff Lemire, writer; Steve Pugh & Travel Foreman, artists
DC Comics
The Rotworld event is finally over. It leaves Buddy Baker alone: his son Cliff has died, and his wife and daughter have abandoned him. The Annu
Read more…The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1– The Faust Act
Kieron Gillen, writer; Jamie McKelvie & Matthew Wilson, artists
Image Comics
A story about twelve gods who incarnate as humans every ninety years, only to die two years later. They’re young, pretty, an
Read more…I was a regular reader of The Walking Dead (in TPB form) for the first few years of the run. My attention had waned as it approached the 100th issue, but I thought I should read that collection so I could join in the discussion. I thought killing Gle
Read more…Fairest Vol. 4: Of Men And Mice
Marc Andreyko, writer; Shawn McManus, artist
Vertigo Comics
Can't go wrong with a Ciderella story, although this one is not quite the equal of the two miniseries that feature her (it does have the advantage of McManu
Read more…East of West: The World has been mentioned in one of the reading threads. It's a one-shot guide to the East of West world, subtitled "Sourcebook | Atlas | Encyclopedia | Timelines | Apocrypha." It serves as a reference to the convoluted history and p
The Wake
Scott Snyder, writer; Sean Murphy, artist
Vertigo
It starts with a mysterious call from the ocean depths, worrisome enough that a secret government operative recruits marine biologist Dr. Lee Archer to investigate. Having opposed a major
Read more…FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics Vol. 1: The Paradigm Shift
Simon Oliver, writer; Robbi Rodriguez, artist; Rico Renzi, colorist
Vertigo Comics
I've been waiting for a library copy of this for ages (in fact Vol. 2 is already out). This is the ongoing
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