According to legend (actually, just Rich Johnston) Kieron Gillen was utterly incensed after reading Frank Miller’s “300” and seeing what a hash it made of actual history.  Granted, I don’t think Miller had any real designs on historical accuracy with that title — it reads like an exercise in mythmaking more than anything else — […]

This final collection of Garth Ennis’ latest series of war comics comes with two strikes against it.  As the run consisted of only two three-issue miniseries, this final collection is shorter than the others by a third.  The hardcover collecting them is unfortunately not correspondingly cheaper as it bears a $25 cover price instead of […]

The main thing readers of the first volume will immediately notice in the second is that there’s a new artist onboard.  One of Brian Wood’s frequent collaborators, Ryan Kelly, provides the art for the first half of this volume and parts of it are an uneasy fit.  What’s good is that he’s got a nice […]

Now this is interesting.  I’ve said before that this title’s biggest weakness is its tendency to put out stories that aren’t immediately entertaining, but set up things that will be paid off quite well down the road.  One only needs to look at route Mike Mignola and co. took to get to “B.P.R.D.:  Vampire” to […]

Deadpool’s sudden popularity over the last few years has always been a bit of a mystery to me.  While the character has been around since the early 90’s and been in his own (and one shared with Cable) ongoing series since the late 90’s, he was at one point headlining three different ongoing series, has […]

In this volume you will see an astronaut shooting mobsters with lazers, a food pornographer, a police story from another planet, and protagonist Tony Chu and his partner hallucinating themselves as talking animals while they head out on a case.  So yeah, it’s business as usual for “Chew” as the series continues to deliver its […]

Some people have theorized that DC has conditioned readers to buy the bargain-priced trade paperbacks for Vertigo titles rather than the monthly issues, and this is why the imprint has had such a hard time launching new series over the past few years.  I can see the logic in that line of thinking, yet it […]

Later this year, writer Charles Soule and artist Steve McNiven are giving us “The Death of Wolverine” which is said to deliver exactly what it promises in the title.  I find it hard to work up much excitement for such an event, but it at least has a fairly low bar to clear thanks to […]

After one-hundred issues, I thought Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso’s signature comics creation wrapped up quite well.  Yet there were a couple things nagging at me afterwards.  The biggest was wondering just how things would change now that the families of the Trust were no longer pulling America’s strings.  As for the other, I wanted […]

It’s only July but DC is gearing up for its big September event already.  The event in question involves the whole line tying into the “Future’s End” weekly series, so we’re getting a bunch of one-shots showing crazy future scenarios that will likely never come to pass for the inhabitants of the DC Universe.  Now […]