Secret Avengers #37
Marvel Comics
Color, $3.99, 20 pages
Writer: Rick Remender
Artist: Matteo Scalera
(Note: If this looks familiar, I had previously posted this as a rant on another thread, and when I realized it was basically a review, I moved it
Read more…Faster than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel 2nd Edition
NBM, $14.99, 80 pages
Writer: Stephen Weiner
I'm a big fan of Weiner, a librarian who champions comics in libraries, schools and other educational environments. He's made it hi
Read more…Green Lantern: New Guardians Annual #1
DC Comics
$4.99, color, 48 pages
Writer: Keith Giffen
Artists: Scott Kolins, Andrei Bressan
Have I outgrown Keith Giffen stories?
I don't read Green Lantern: New Guardians regularly, so I don't know much about
Read more…Batgirl Volume 2: Knightfall Descends
DC Comics
$24.99, color, 192 pages
Writer: Gail Simone
Artists: Adrian Syaf, Ed Benes
Reprinting Batgirl #0, 7-13 (May-Dec 12)
I liked The New 52 Batgirl to start with, and it's getting better.
In the first Bat
Read more…Spacehawk by Basil Wolverton
Fantagraphics Books
$39.99, color, 266 pages
Writer and artist: Basil Wolverton
Reprinting "Spacehawk" stories in Target Comics (vol. 1) #5-12 (Jun 40-Jan 41), Target Comics (vol. 2) #1-12 (Mar 41-Feb 42), Target Comics (
Read more…Justice League of America #1
DC Comics, $2.99, color, 40 pages
Writer: Geoff Johns
Artist: David Finch
It's only the first issue, so I won't pass judgment. But I'm having trouble with the central conceit of the series.
You've seen the house ads. Th
Read more…Katana #1
DC Comics, $2.99, color, 32 pages
Writer: Ann Nocenti
Artist: Alex Sanchez
It's early yet, but so far, so good.
The New 52 Katana shares her name and her possessed sword with her pre-New 52 predecessor, but that seems to be all. This new
Read more…The Judas Coin GN
DC Comics
$22.99, color, 104 pages
Writer/artist: Walter Simonson
I'm a huge Simonson fan, which may be why I was so disappointed with this effort.
When I read the solicitation for this book, I thought "I bet they're going to foll
Read more…Injustice: Gods Among Us #1
DC Comics, $3.99, color, 40 pages
Writer: Tom Taylor
Artists: Jeremy Raapack, Mike S. Miller, Axel Gimenez, Marc Deering
From Dark Knight Returns to Kingdom Come, we've all read a lot of possible dystopic futures for the
Read more…Batman #17
DC Comics
31 pages, color, $3.99
Writer: Scott Snyder
Artists: Greg Capullo, Jonathan Glapion
This is going to be hard to review without giving anything away. And I don't want to give anything away, because Snyder has done a good job of p
Read more…Green Arrow #17
DC Comics, $2.99, color, 32 pages
Writer: Jeff Lemire
Artist: Andrea Sorrentino
OK, this is more like it.
I read the first issue of The New 52 Green Arrow, then a year later the "zero" issue, and neither interested me in the least.
Read more…A New 52 Valentine's Day Special #1
DC Comics, $7.99, color, 64 pages
Writers and artists: Various
OK, I admit it: It's cute.
DC's Valentine's Day Special offers six stories mixing adventure and romance, with varying degrees of success. Catwoman re
Read more…Hellblazer #300
Vertigo, $4.99, color, 48 pages
Writer: Peter Milligan
Artists: Giuseppe Camuncoli, Stefano Landini
What kind of send-off do you give a character like John Constantine?
He's not really gone, of course -- he's just moved to The New 5
Read more…Vibe #1
DC Comics, $2.99, color, 32 pages
Writer: Geoff Johns
Artists: Andrew Kreisberg, Pete Woods, Wean Parsons
Amazingly, it does not suck.
The new Vibe is kinda interesting. He's an earnest young man who is a double victim of Darkseid's invasio
Read more…Vampirella Archives Volume Six
Dynamite, $49.99, B&W and color, 392 pages
Writers and Artists: Various
Reprinting Vampirella #36-42 (Sep 74-May 75)
The issues of Vampirella reprinted here by Dynamite were coming out at roughly the same time (mid-197
Read more…Roy Thomas Presents The Heap Volume One
PS Artbooks
$47.99, color, 240 pgs.
Writers and Artists: Various
Collecting "The Heap" stories Dec 42-May 48
This is a fascinating book.
Not for the art or stories, which never rise above pedestrian. But the
Read more…Batman: Arkham Unhinged
DC Comics
$22.99, color, 160 pages
Writers and Artists: Various
Reprinting Batman: Arkham Unhinged #1-5, which first appeared digitally.
I actually enjoyed the first "chapter" of this story enough that I had my hopes up that
Read more…Batwoman Volume 2: To Drown the World
DC Comics
$22.99, color, 144 pgs.
Writer: J.H.Williams III, W. Haden Blackman
Artists: Amy Reeder, Trevor McCarthy
Collecting Batwoman #6-11 (Apr-Sep 12)
This collection made a terrible mistake for me as a reade
Read more…Hulk Smash Avengers
Marvel Comics
$16.99, color, 112 pgs.
Writers and Artists: Various
Reprinting Hulk Smash Avengers #1-5 (Jul 12)
When I first heard of this project, I realized it owed its existence to the Avengers movie, but nevertheless thought
Read more…Space Family Robinson Volume Five
Dark Horse Comics
$49.99, color, 219 pgs.
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Artist: Dan Spiegle
Collecting Space Family Robinson #32-39 (Feb 69-Apr 74), March of Comics #328 (Jan 69)
While Western Publishing’s Space Family Ro
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