Heard some rumblings on the internet about a new animal graphic novel; lots of interest but most wanted to flip through the book before committing. At my local comic shop they had one copy of Grandville: after a quick perusal…
I should start off by saying I’ve never read Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451. I was reading a magazine recently and saw it was being adapted into a graphic novel by Tim Hamilton, who I had no previous experience with. …
The adaptation of Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter by Darwyn Cooke has received a lot of press, both from inside and outside the comics community. It’s a grim tale of an anti-hero set in the 1950’s about a thief who…
Through a recent Diamond sale I picked up Challengers Of The Unknown Must Die! by Jeff Loeb and Tim Sale. The trade was published in 2004 and collected the original eight issues mini series from 1991 and was Loeb and…
Received an email from DC Comics today letting me know issue one of Madame Xanadu was available in PDF format as a free download. I checked it out and it pointed me to a list of free issue one Vertigo…
Picked up a bunch of DC trades and graphics novels off a Diamond sale last month: items I’d wanted to read but never got around to picking up. One of those is Batman: Nine Lives by Dean Motter and Michael…
It was a tough decision but I’m making the switch from individual issues (weeklys) to trade paperbacks. The idea was percolating in my head for about a year and the rationale is twofold: new comics aren’t worth anything and there’s a lot…
Picked this up at a discount book store in Toronto. The format and flashy cover caught my eye: thumbing it showed a nice selection of art from the top silver age artists so I bought it. The Silver Age Of…
DC is launching a twelve-issue weekly series in July called Wednesday Comics. It’s being published broadsheet size 28×20″ and will be shipped folded twice to 7×10″. The series is the brainchild of DC’s art director Mark Chiarello who besides lining…