After writer/artist Eric Powell took his signature series to the next level, successfully balancing his dramatic instincts with his deranged sense of humor, in the “Return of Labrazio” arc that spanned vols. 7-9 we finally get the next collection.  While I thoroughly enjoyed the storyline, I was a little put out by the fact that […]

There were a lot of little things I liked about this latest Vertigo Crime graphic novel from writer Andy Diggle and artist Victor Ibanez.  As the writer of “The Losers,” Diggle knows how to write an effective action comic, and you can see his skill in the way that the book opens, the amusing details […]

One thing I didn’t mention in my review of vol. 3 was that vols. 3-5 were a late Christmas gift from some good friends of mine.  I’d been planning on picking them up at some point in the future because while I’ve liked the series, the price for “four issues and a preview of Mark […]

After I finished reading through this, I came to realize that I was probably being more than a little foolish in hoping that this volume would flesh out the events of “Siege” in a satisfying manner.  There’s really only one thing that’s touched upon here that wasn’t really explained in the crossover, and that’s the […]

When I talked about it on the podcast a while back, I made no bones about how I was disappointed with “The Battle of Jericho Hill.”  Ostensibly a conclusion to Marvel’s series of “Dark Tower” mini-series, it failed to make the title conflict feel like the major event that it was referenced as in Stephen […]

With this, the story that was started in “World’s Most Wanted” and the character arc that really began in “Civil War,” draws to a close.  Tony Stark is a vegetable, having successfully wiped his mind free of information that could’ve been seized by Norman Osborne, and now his friends and comrades have to decide if […]

With the next volume currently on order from Amazon, I thought I’d dust this off and give it another read-through.  It got lost in the review shuffle after San Diego and I always meant to get around to it since I remembered liking it after going through it a few months back.  Now that I’ve […]

So we’ve seen what the Plutonian was like before he turned bad, the circumstances that led up to it, and the incident that pushed him past the point of no return.  The question for this third volume of writer Mark Waid and artist Peter Krause’s “Irredeemable” is “Where do we go from here?”  Fortunately Waid […]

Robert Kirkman is one of the few writers to have lighting strike twice when it comes to finding success with his creator-owned books.  I don’t think I need to say anything more about the success of “The Walking Dead,” and “Invincible” is still going strong at 75 issues and thirteen collections so far.  Not one […]

This volume collects the last four issues of the ongoing series, but as with “Incredible Hercules” there will be a follow-up mini-series to give proper closure to the story.  That said, “Extremes” does an excellent job of cramming a lot of action into its pages.  We start off with the evacuation of the planet Dac […]