This is a series that I want to like.  Unfortunately the premise of “FBP” is at odds with the blue-collar, honest government employees fighting the good fight procedural that it makes itself out to be.  The idea is that our world is now experiencing localized failures of physics and the U.S. government has created a […]

Back in December for my “Image Previews Picks” for March, I mentioned that they were putting out a number of comics relating to David Lapham’s long-running, long-dormant-until-now crime comic “Stray Bullets.”  They consisted of a concluding issue (#41) for the ongoing series, the first part of a new eight-issue miniseries called “Killers,” and the one […]

I can only speak for myself, but when Ed Brubaker finished his run on “Captain America” I was glad to see the end of it.  It was a run that had started off quite strongly before steadily losing steam a little over halfway through when it seemed that the writer thought it would be more […]

Viz announced a lot of new licenses this week and only one really stood out to me.  Come December, they’ll release the first volume of “Master Keaton,” an Urasawa work that pre-dates “Monster” and “20th Century Boys.”  It’s about the adventures of one Taichi Hiraga-Keaton, an archaeologist who also works as a part-time insurance investigator. […]

Things start off quite strong for this latest volume of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ supernatural horror noir series.  In the present, Nicholas Lash uses his time in jail to make some interesting discoveries about his uncle’s book before a meeting with his lawyer opens up an even fresher hell for him to fall into. […]

In the world of “Revival,” the characters who have mysteriously returned from the dead feel nothing.  They may look and appear human (well, save for the bloody tears they cry when they get agitated), but they now lack the capacity to feel emotion as we’re reminded again in this volume.  I bring it up now […]

I know this came out several months back and that it has since been followed by two more volumes. The thing is now that my copy of “Infinity” has arrived, I figured it’s time to go back and offer my thoughts on it in the interest of having my thoughts on all of Hickman’s run […]

If you like this title for the pervasive weirdness it offers up, then you might be just a little disappointed by vol. 3.  Oh, there’s plenty of interesting sights to behold, like the multitude of various Johns we see on Earth.  Big ones, tall ones, small ones built for pleasure, ones with multiple faces, symbiotic […]

You know, it occurred to me earlier today that with “Miracleman” now being republished by Marvel are there any other great series from the 80’s still waiting to be collected?  One comes to mind:  “Rom:  Spaeceknight.”  Originally a tie-in to a long-forgotten toy, “Rom” transcended its roots to become an epic about one man who […]

It’s been a while since I’ve written about “The Unwritten” proper, so let’s fix that.  After losing his friend/lover Lizzie Hexam in “The War of Words,” Tom Taylor finally gets a lead on where she wound up.  Problem is that she’s now in Hades.  Now getting there is the easy part for someone who can […]