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…
Late books are a problem for everyone. When books ship late, readers get mad because they can’t get their monthly dose of their favorite characters. Retailers get mad because they can’t sell as many comics if the publishers don’t put out as many. Publishers get mad because quite honestly I wouldn’t want to listen to…
I didn’t read enough books this week to bother with a Worst to First, so you’ll have to settle for a rant. On that note, are the editors of Batman trying to ensure that I never buy this book again? I dropped the series from my pull list to avoid that John Ostrander/Grotesk debacle, but…
Nothing happens this week. Seriously. Week Forty-One is completely worthless and throw-away. Filler! I could take filler back in Week Thirteen, but this is the point where we’re supposed to be getting into the payoff that all of that filler once promised. For the sake of formality, though, I suppose we can all take a…
Howdy all! Why do I say “howdy”? I don’t know, just seemed like the thing to say. Our communal review last week was roundly dissed because it cost a relatively absurd $5.99. Time to rejoice, you cheapskates! This week’s choice is issue 16 of the Jack-Kirby-meets-Sealab-2021-type series Godland, which is retailing for the unbeatable price…
The following preview is interesting to me for a couple reasons. First, and perhaps most importantly, this is a markedly different type of book for Boom!, which I’ve always considered as the Spike TV of comics (which I mean as a compliment). “Salvador” seems to be a much more intellectual and emotional project, as opposed…
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….
Uncanny X-Men #483 was a whole lot of fighting and loving, with not one, but TWO close-ups of Deathbird’s tongue doing some tongue-loving. Maybe chalk that up to guest-artist Clayton Henry filling in for Billy Tan, who has clearly never seen an actual woman. This was a good enough issue that advances the plot just…
Book I Was Afraid to Read of the Week- Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #17 I’m not sure if you heard, but Spider-Man’s returning to his black costume this month. According to Marvel, the costume change is happening because something tragic is going to happen to Peter Parker. That tragic event is assumedly the murder of Aunt…
As the Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase put it so well over the years, “Everybody’s got a price.” Apparently, that price is $5.99. Jim Doom: “I read the first 10 pages or so in the store, and the rags-to-lightning story wasn’t enough to convince me to drop $5.99 on it.” Both Jim Doom and Doom…