It’s a DC-heavy week with my morning reading, so here we go with the (incredibly positive) initial impressions. Let me know if you like this more than the analysis.
Detective Comics #838: The third part of “Resurrection of Ra’s al Ghul” (really the fourth counting the prelude in Batman #670) continues the fast-paced martial arts thriller […]
Grady Klien
The Lost Colony, Book One: The Snodgrass Conspiracy
First Second
Lost Colony didn’t work for me for the first two thirds of the story. It throws a lot of characters at you, and the setting - an island where slavery is abolished in early colonial America - is weirdly defined. The art was jarring as Klien’s […]
K. Thor Jensen
Red Eye, Black Eye
Alternative Comics
In the first 3 pages of the book, Thor’s life falls apart in a humorously tragic way. Even though it’s all very sad shit, he depicts it so well that you can’t help laugh when you see him purchase an Ameripass, the greyhound version of an unlimited bus […]
Bryan Lee O’Malley
Scott Pilgrim, Vol 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
Oni Press
Scott Pilgrim cockteases you with 10 color pages at the beginning of volume 4, that I still don’t get the meaning of. It’s a shame since it’s so pretty. Either way, the black and white art is still expressive and tells a lot with […]
Not too long ago, the preferred way to reading any comic series was hitting the store every Wednesday to pick it up sequentially. The store had stacks of floppies and if you wanted to catch up to a series, you’ll have to dig into the back issue bin, hopefully finding the issues you needed. However, […]
Written by Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction
Drawn by David Aja
Collects The Immortal Iron Fist 1 - 6.
The Last Iron Fist Story is not about the Iron Fist, nor Danny Rand. Rand may be the protagonist but the story, and the series to date, is about the rich legacy of the Iron Fist itself, not simply […]
Before picking up the omnibus, I have to say I have never read Jack Kirby at all. I know of him only though a second or third party. It’s always been Waid or Morrison’s interpretation of Kirby concepts that I end up reading. Even as engaging as their spin was on the characters, the energy […]
Notes of a War Story, produced by Gipi, and translated by Spectrum. Notes is published by First Second Publishing, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, and was originally published as Appunti per una storia di guerra in 2004 by Coconino Press.
Gipi doesn’t tell the kinds of stories that I usually enjoy in comic books. […]
Reprints: X-Men 130-131, Amazing Spider-Man 203, and Dazzler 1-21 Creative Teams include: Chris Claremont/John Byrne, Marv Wolfman/Keith Pollard, Tom DeFalco/John Romita Jr. and Frank Springer, and Danny Fingeroth/Frank Springer. Fingeroth/Springer are responsible for the bulk of the work in the TPB.
Yes, they’ve printed an Essential volume staring Dazzler. Not a dream, […]
Every once in a while, I’m reminded of why comic books are one of the few mediums that I cherished as a child that I still love with the same fervor today. I stopped playing video games when I was ten, stopped caring about anime when I was sixteen, and only have an occasional […]
FBB went to Mocca this week and had a generally good time. I bought a few things, specifically three comics from Calvera Comics out of Miami, FL.
Their table attracted me at the show due to a combination of stunning artwork and a great attitude from the people there. I had just ran into the writer […]