Though it pains me to say it, the first volume of this series was somewhat of a letdown.  After Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips consistently hit it out of the park with “Sleeper,” “Criminal,” and “Incognito,” I was expecting “Fatale” to do just the same.  Unfortunately, the story, the setting and the characters all felt […]

According to Rich Johnston, pre-orders for the “Hyrule Historia” currently stand at 250,000.  It’s all the more impressive when you consider that this is a $35 hardcover, but I’m curious as to why he’s reporting on this.  Sure it has a “Skyward Sword” comic inside, but it’s not really comics news, nor the first such […]

A good part of the fun of this series comes from the fact that while reading it, you really feel that writer Geoff Johns has a plan for all this.  Granted, I’m sure that there have been plenty of changes and revisions to it ever since he successfully brought Hal Jordan back as the title […]

If the creative teams for “Constantine” and “Birds of Prey” look a little different from last month, it’s because they’ve been retroactively changed since then.  Robert Venditti is off the former, replaced by Jeff Lemire and Ray Fawkes plotting it with Fawkes scripting, and Jim Zubkavitch is off the latter, with Christy Marx now onboard.  […]

This is a series that I’ve always been interested in, but just never got around to checking out for one reason or another.  A few Amazon gift certificates from friends last year helped change that.  So after reading this impressively thick and well-priced volume ($20 for over 300 pages of comics), I’ve come away not […]

While I’m aware of The Shadow’s status as one of the legendary characters of pulp fiction’s golden age, I can’t really say that I was chomping at the bit for new stories about him.  Not unless a creator I really liked was involved, of course.  So it happens that Garth Ennis wrote the first arc […]

Jeffrey Dahmer was easily one of the most infamous serial killers of the last century due to the horrific and deeply disturbing nature of his crimes.  Those of you wanting details of that beyond the cannibalism and necrophilia would be encouraged to check out his Wikipedia page or by Googling him.  However, before he was […]

I honestly didn’t think what I read here was possible. Though the “Fear Itself” tie-in arc was an improvement over the execrable Stark-becomes-Doc Ock’s-bitch storyline of “Unfixable” it still left me with the feeling that the title’s best days were behind it.  Now with two volumes left to go, the Fraction/Larroca run heads into its […]

This doesn’t reach the ridiculous comic heights of “Goodbye, Chinatown,” but it’s still a fun capper to Jason Aaron’s run on “Wolverine” proper.  After all this is a story that starts off with the title character on a plane to Japan where the in-flight attendant passes out samurai swords to everyone else on the plane […]

Warren Ellis’ name may be on the cover of this graphic novel, but it’s not his show.  This is all about Steve Pugh, a veteran artist with a long history of work with DC, Marvel, and numerous other companies.  I’m familiar with him through his collaborations with Garth Ennis on the “Preacher:  Saint of Killers” […]