The Silver Age Teen Titans Archives Volume 2
Collecting Teen Titans (first series) #6-20, Brave and Bold #83, Nov 66-May 69
Writers: Bob Haney, Len Wein, Marv Wolfman, Mike Friedrich, Neal Adams
Artists: Bill Molno, Sal Trapani, Nick Cardy, Irv Novic
Read more…Daredevil: End of Days HC
Writers: Brian Michael Bendis, David Mack
Artists: Klaus Janson, Bill Sienkiewicz, Alex Maleev
Marvel Comics, $39.99, color, 216 pages
This book should have been titled "What If Mark Waid Never Wrote Daredevil"?
As most lon
Read more…Impossible Tales: The Steve Ditko Archives Vol. 4 HC
Writers: Various
Art: Steve Ditko
Edited: Blake Bell
Fantagraphics, $39.99, color, 256 pages
I used to think that Steve Ditko hit his artistic apogee in the 1960s, when he created or co-created Sp
Read more…If you read last year’s Philosophy: A Discovery in Comics, then you already know who Dutch cartoonist Margreet de Heer is. If not, you’re in for a treat.
Philosophy explored the history and status of that field via comics, with our guides being carto
Read more…Let's try something new this week. Instead of leading with the titles the publishers recommend, I'll lead with the ones *I* recommend. Hey, I actually get paid to be a critic, so it's not as egotistical as it sounds! OK, maybe it is. But let's give i
Read more…Ask not what your Comics Guide can do for you, ask what you can do for your Comics Guide! (Which is read it, of course.)
Let's start, as usual, with the books with press releases and previews:
PUBLISHERS PICKS
ALL-NEW X-MEN #19
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
Welcome to another Comics Guide, with your humble Captain as your guide, historian and court jester. Let's start, as usual, with the books the publishers have been pushing with PR and previews:
PUBLISHER PICKS
AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE #2
Script: Robert
Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be another bumpy Comics Guide!
First up this week is a big new title from Valiant Comics: Unity #1, the publisher's first team book. It's clear Valiant has high hopes for it, because they've buried me in press rel
Read more…Candy for Halloween? That is so 2011.
Instead, you could get – and keep or give away – free comics! Because Diamond Comic Distributors Inc. and most comic shops have teamed up to give away free funnybooks just before All Hallow’s Eve.
It’s called Hal
Read more…Nov. 6, 2013 -- The Walking Dead has conquered comics and TV. Now zombies are coming for your favorite board games.
Coinciding with Halloween, USAopoly has released Walking Dead versions of old favorites Monopoly and RISK. As if those games weren’t c
Read more…Oct. 29, 2013 -- There’s been a rash of good, scary books in the comics world, and the spooky season gives us an excuse to talk about them.
At the top of my list is Zombillenium (NBM, $14.99), more a spoof of horror stories than a genuine chiller. Bu
Oct. 10, 2013 -- We can learn a lot of lessons from old horror comics.
These lessons weren’t evident until recently. As most comics fans know, horror comics – and comics in general – were nearly wiped out when public hysteria panicked comics publishe
Read more…Oct. 1, 2013 -- Papercutz bills itself as “the industry’s leading children’s graphic novel publisher,” and – judging from its current output – that could very well be true.
Once upon a time that title would have gone to Harvey Comics, which transit
Read more…Sept. 17, 2013 -- The purpose of comic-strip collections from America’s rich past is entertainment. But in many cases, they’re a public service, too.
Such is the case with IDW’s “Library of American Comics,” which aggressively searches out classic co
Read more…This week's Comics Guide features a special treat, Legionnaires: Our own Baron has stopped by the Cave to offer his comments on some of this week's manga! Not only are we guaranteed wise and witty words from the Table's resident Japanophile, but it's
Read more…Some graphic novels are as much public service as they are entertainment.
Take, for example, William Stout’s Legends of the Blues (Abrams ComicArts, $19.95). Not only is it gob-smackingly good, but it’s a treasure trove of information about the oft
Read more…ANSWER TP
Eisner award-winning writer and artist Mike Norton!
Mike Norton (W/A/Cover), Dennis Hopeless (W), and Mark Englert (C)
FC, 96 pages
$12.99
Insomniac librarian Devin MacKenzie is yanked into a maelstrom of mayhem and mystery by the punctuat
Read more…Oct. 15, 2013 -- It looks like the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division is here to stay. As is appropriate for a shadowy espionage outfit, that raises a lot of questions.
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. debuted on ABC
CAPTAIN'S COMMENTS: It's another week, which means another Wednesday ... and more cool comics! Here's a guide to this week's offerings, with covers, solicitations, previews where available and occasional comments by your humble narrator. Onward!
DA
Read more…3 GUNS #3
Writer: Steven Grant
Artist: Emilio Laiso
THE SEQUEL TO 2 GUNS, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE WASHINGTON AND MARK WAHLBERG!
On the run from the power-hungry Russians and the insane revolutionaries, things are looking worse than ever for Bobby
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