By Bill Willingham and Matthew Sturges (W) and Tony Akins (A) Published 2007 by Vertigo, originally as issues 1-5. $14.99 The Plot: In being forthright, I have to say I don’t know Jack about Fables. The series is among those that I’ve always wanted to read but am waiting for a big omnibus. I liked…
By Brian Wood (W) and Riccardo Burchielli (A) Published in 2007, comprises issues 6-12, Vertigo. $12.99 The Plot: Journalist Matty Roth is now established in war-torn Manhattan and has been there for almost a year. But things aren’t easy, as he’s stuck in essentially a third-world country stuck in the middle of a civil war….
By Brian Wood (W) and Riccardo Burchielli (A) Published in 2006, comprises issues 1-5, Vertigo. $9.99 The Plot: Matty Roth has a well connected dad who’s gotten him an internship with Liberty News, which sets him up as an assistant to a big shot journalist who’s going into Manhattan. This is newsworthy because Civil War…
By Brian and Philip Phillipson (W) and Alex Nino (A) Published in 2006, originally as four issues in 2005, by Bliss on Tap Publishing. $19.95 softcover, $29.95 hardcover. The Plot: Drop some acid, chase it with a bottle of something staunch and thumb through a pile of texts on mythology, psychology, human history and religion….
by Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis (W) and Kevin Maguire (P) and Terry Austin and Al Gordon (I) Published by DC Comics. Cover price $12.95. Originally published in 1987 as Justice League #1-6 and Justice League International #7. The Plot: Following the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths, some mighty heroes from across previously-separate realities…
By Brad Meltzer (W) and Rags Morales (A) Published by DC Comics. Cover price $14.99/24.99 (softcover/hardcover). Originally printed as Identity Crisis 1-7. The Plot: Long-kept secrets of the Justice League are revealed when Sue Dibny, the wife of the Elongated Man, is murdered, and the superheroes of the DC Universe race to find the person…
By John Ridley (W) and Georges Jeanty (A) Published by Wildstorm, 2006, originally as eight issues. $19.99 Last year, I deeply considered picking up the first issue of The American Way, a mini-series from Wildstorm. After the first issue, I heard so much positive press that I decided to give it a try, but by…
By Frank Miller, color by Lynn Varley Published by Dark Horse in 1998 as a five-issue series, reprinted in 1999 and 2006. $30 The Plot: It is 480 BCE. Not yet unified, the peoples of Greece stand in the shadow of the Persian Empire, which spreads west under the control of God/King Xerxes, who commands…
by Kevin Smith (W) and Phil Hester (P) and Ande Parks (I) Published by DC Comics. Originally published as Green Arrow #1-10. Cover price $17.99 The plot: Oliver Queen returns to the DC Universe, only no one, especially Ollie, is quite sure how. Much action, adventure, drama and hilarity ensues as filmmaker Kevin Smith takes…
So far, we’ve recounted lots of the good and the bad of 2006 in comics, from series to covers to issues to moments and so on. The following is something that didn’t quite fit into our “best of” rubric, so I offer it as a standalone thought. And that thought is, of every bit of…