It’ll have been more than half a year since the “New 52” relaunch when March rolls around, and that means it’s time to start seeing some trades!  Naturally the majority of these collections will be in hardcover first, but the decision to pick them up is always easier when it comes to DC.  Mainly because […]

Don’t ask why it took three-and-a-half years for this to occur to me.  It probably won’t surprise anyone that I regularly peruse the solicitations from the “big four” as they’re published each month over at Comic Book Resources.  Naturally I’m looking to see what collections are being released, along with what format they’re in, their […]

Savor this one people, because it’s the last you’ll see of this series for a good year or more.  Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips have been the most consistently excellent writer/artist team since the heyday of Ennis/Dillon, and I think it’s fantastic that they’ve continued to explore new territory in the crime/noir genres over the […]

I didn’t buy this one.  My dad is a big fan of the TV series “Castle” and when he saw this graphic novel featured prominently in an episode earlier this season, he decided to pick it up himself.  After he was done, I gave it a read to see what it was like.  Overall, it […]

What I like most about Dark Horse Publisher Mike Richardson’s documented love of short stories is that Mike Mignola  loves to exploit– er, make that, utilize the publishing opportunities it provides.  This means that in the gaps between collections of the next “proper” arcs of “Hellboy” and “B.P.R.D.” we occasionally get volumes like this that […]

Chief Red Crow prepares his re-election campaign.  Agent Nitz reaches the bottom of the barrel and finds the “War on Terror” there.  Catcher finds out that God’s role for him is quite different from what he thought it was.  Carol continues to adjust to domestic life.  Dino Poor Bear doesn’t get the girl.  Shunka gets […]

Robert Kirkman has said that if it wasn’t for the zombies, then “The Walking Dead” wouldn’t be anything more than a boring soap opera.  The worst thing that can be said about the past seven episodes of this season is that there has been more than one occasion where his words have been proven right.  […]

It has been almost an entire year since we got a proper collection of this series, and the wait was worth it.  “Highland Laddie” was a mini-series that ran concurrent with the main title, and while it had a few things that were relevant to the overall story, I’ve been looking forward to finding out […]

The first volume of this series was something that I wanted to like more than I actually did.  A thoroughly irreverent take on some traditional fantasy tropes, its wiseass sensibility only took it so far.  Unless you’re very, VERY good, then at some point you’ll actually need to start adding some actual substance to the […]

The first volume of this felt a bit too much like “Lex Luthor Team-Up,” or “Versus” as was more often the case.  Having Luthor travelling the world to find black orbs that were supposedly the remnants of the Black Lantern rings from “Blackest Night” felt more like just an excuse for writer Paul Cornell to […]