Tag: Reviews
Review: Batman Incorporated #8 – The Boy Wonder Returns
(Spoilers!) Well, we can't say that we didn't know it was coming. From early on in the run, Grant Morrison has said in interviews and at convention appearances that his six year Batman run would end...
Advance Review: Uncanny Skullkickers #1 tests out The Adjective of Power
Uncanny is such a strange word to use to describe a comic, much less a range of different comics which tend to feature characters who aren't unexpectedly familiar - they're the X-Men and Avengers,...
Review: Completely Happy!
The concluding issue of Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson's Happy! has finally made its way to the shelves, and has seemingly divided critics right down the middle. It's perhaps no surprise to anyone who...
REVIEW: A Driven Man in BALTIMORE: THE WIDOW AND THE TANK
Lord Henry Baltimore, Vampire Hunter, is more strictly speaking the hunter of a specific vampire, as THE WIDOW AND THE TANK one-shot reminds us. For such a goal-oriented guy, he certainly leaves plenty of...
Review: Down at the Pub with HELLBLAZER #300
Opening remarks are a prerequisite to talking about the final Vertigo issue of the imprint’s longest running series, the only from Vertigo's original armada to last nearly so long, and a series which, totaling...
Review: The Death of Superman
Nowadays we think of it as the pre-mullet era of Superman, but at the time The Death of Superman was an incredibly big idea for DC. A story which killed off their main signature...
REVIEW: A Whirlwind Tour of the DOCTOR WHO OMNIBUS, Volume 1
IDW’s first volume of the collected DOCTOR WHO OMNIBUS is a compact but substantial little tome gathering two long story arcs (“Agent Provacateur” and “The Forgotten”) and six one-shots that appeared in single issue...
Second Opinion: Batman #17
Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's Batman #17 came out this week, concluding their 'Death of the Family' storyline to universal approval from reviewers. But in all the rush to celebrate and praise, there's been...
Review: Django Unchained #2
First issues are easy – it’s the second issue where you get the proper measure of where a story is going, how it’ll play out, and what the style is going to be like....
Review: The Pulp Fiction of The Spider – Terror of the Zombie Queen
Introducing the best crime-fighting comic on the shelves right now: The Spider. No, not that Spider, but this one from Dynamite Entertainment that you quite possibly haven't been reading. But fear not! The first trade collection...
REVIEW: On the Road with Paul Pope’s THE ONE TRICK RIP-OFF +DEEP CUTS
For those savvy enough to have read Paul Pope’s (BATMAN: YEAR 100, HEAVY LIQUID, BATTLING BOY in 2013) ONE TRICK RIP-OFF when it first appeared serially in DARK HORSE PRESENTS from 1995 to 1996,...
Review: Green Arrow #17
It must be difficult to put out a comic when Hawkeye comes out. But especially so if you also happen to be writing a book starring a blonde-haired archer. That's a problem Jeff Lemire...
