Was shopping a sale earlier this year and picked up a bunch of Marvel Premiere hardcovers including Black Widow: Web Of Intrigue. Here’s the publisher’s blurb: It’s been a long lively life for Natasha Romanova – in the Avengers, the…
As I mentioned in my latest Jiminy Christmas rant I picked up The Green Lantern Omnibus Volume 1 at a discount bookseller in Toronto for $38. It collects material previously collected in DC Archives Green Lantern volumes 1-3 if you can…
I attended the full first day of Wizard World, roaming the floor from 4:00 – 9:00 PM. The exhibit hall was significantly smaller than last year and it seemed a better fit, less cavernous. During my initial pre-show walk around…
I’ve decided to track my comic reading for 2011: this will be my first full year of reading graphic novels and collected editions only, no monthly comics. Based on my reading last year books slipped by and I forgot them,…
Batman: The Return Of Bruce Wayne Batman’s return to the DC universe by way of six points in time. Each chapter drawn by a different artist gives the story a hit-and-miss feel. The story is cohesive if slightly convoluted. Usagi…
Originally published at Comic Book Daily under my Bound Together column. During the 1990s The Tick from Ben Edlund and New England Comics was the hottest comic property going. The black and white comics were a smash success that led…
Originally published at Comic Book Daily under my Jiminy Christmas! column. Why are publishers still producing dust jackets? The technology has been around for a good century or so to print whatever you want right on the book cover. In…
I’m a big Mike Mignola fan, admiring his work since Marvel Fanfare. The Amazing Screw-On Head was a one-shot comic published in 2002 but somehow I missed it so I was anxious to pick up The Amazing Screw-On Head and…
Dan Brereton has been pigeon-holed as an artist of horror and horror comics. Image has published Dan Brereton: The Goddess & The Monster, a hardcover artbook collecting various horror illustrations. Let the pigeon-holing continue. Here’s the publisher’s blurb: After more…