By Peter David (W), Pop Mhan and Norman Lee (A) Cover price $12.95. Published by Dark Horse Comics. Originally printed as Spyboy: Final Exam 1-4. Plot: A teenaged secret agent is framed as a terrorist by his new archenemy. Strengths: Peter David is a strong writer. Anything he does is going to be readable. So…
By Bruce Jones (W) and Jae Lee (A) with Gerry Conway and Rich Buckler Cover price $13.99. Published by Marvel Comics. Originally printed as Hulk & Thing: Hard Knocks 1-4 and Giant-Size Super-Stars 1. Plot: The Thing and the Hulk reminisce about old times and tease a fight for three and a half issues before…
By Warren Ellis (W) and Jackson Guice (A) Cover price $12.99. Published by DC Comics. Originally printed as JLA Classified 10-15. Plot: The Justice League goes to a hell dimension to prevent the Martian god of terror from annihilating humanity. Strengths: Don’t let the awful CG cover art fool you, the art in this trade…
By Tony Bedard (W) and Manuel Garcia (A) Cover price $13.99. Published by Marvel Comics. Originally printed as Spider-Man: Breakout 1-5. The Plot: Spider-Man tries to apprehend two feuding supervillain factions that escaped from the Raft when Electro broke into it in New Avengers. Strengths: The villains are the stars of this book, and a…
By Darwyn Cooke (W/A) and Dave Stewart(C) Cover price $19.99. Published by DC Comics. Originally printed as DC: The New Frontier 1-3. Click here for the Library of Doom entry for DC: The New Frontier Volume 2. Plot: The story of the DC Universe unfolds in the 1950s, with events taking place in real time…
By Ed Brubaker (W), Steve Epting, Michael Lark and Mike Perkins (A) Cover price $14.99. Published by Marvel Comics. Originally printed as Captain America 8-9, 11-14. Plot: Captain America becomes convinced that the mysterious Winter Soldier is his long-thought-dead partner Bucky and will stop at nothing to save what is left of his oldest and…
By Geoff Johns (W), Mike McKone, Ivan Reis and Tom Grummett (A) Cover price $9.99. Published by DC Comics. Originally printed as Teen Titans # 8-12. Plot: The Teen Titans set out to rescue a reborn Raven from the new Brother Blood and receive an unlikely assist from Deathstroke the Terminator and the new Ravager….
Recently, a local used bookstore came upon a big shipment of Batman trades. With all the “Jason Todd is back” hysteria going on, I thought picking up “A Death in the Family,” “A Lonely Place in Dying” and “Hush” volumes 1 & 2 would serve as a good Robin retrospective. I remember reading these “A…