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Invincible vol. 18: The Death of Everyone

Robert Kirkman wasn’t kidding.  In issue #100 of the series (chapter four in this collection), everyone dies.  The two issues collected after that in this volume are nothing more than blank pages.  I can’t imagine how he’s been able to sell any issues of the series after this.  Are people just buying it on autopilot […]

Single issues that are… worth buying?

I went in to Comic-Con (yes, I’m still talking about it — expect it to keep happening for quite some time) with an agenda for buying certain single issues.  These were the ones that either weren’t collected in the edition I bought the rest of their parent series in, or were going to be collected […]

Hawkeye vol. 2: Little Hits

After the first volume was pretty much as good as its hype, I was very much looking forward to getting the same enjoyment out of this one.  Unfortunately that didn’t quite happen here.  While “Hawkeye” remains a solid example of how good a title featuring a B-list hero as its lead has to be in […]

Prophet vol. 2: Brothers

Finding out whether or not this second volume of Brandon Graham’s re-imagining of the old Rob Liefeld character is for you is easy.  Did you enjoy the concentrated sci-fi weirdness of the first volume?  If you did, then pick this up right away because things only get stranger from here.  Now that Old Man Prophet […]

Assassin’s Creed: Subject 4

The last “Assassin’s Creed” graphic novel I read, “The Fall,” rose above the usual licensed videogame comic tie-in standard and managed to be a great read that offered new insight into its source material.  I was planning on picking up its sequel, “The Chain,” before hopefully finding it at Comic-Con, yet that didn’t turn out […]

X-Men: Blank Generation & Reckless Abandonment

When it was announced that Brian Wood would be taking over the “adjectiveless” X-Men title, my reaction was along the lines of, “Now I’ll finally have a reason to read this!”  The whole “Vampires vs. Mutants” storyline that kicked off the title didn’t have any appeal to me at all, while the writer at its […]