I excitedly waited for John Byrne’s Next Men Volume 2: Scattered Part 2 in the hope I could get answers to all the questions and dangling plotlines from volume 1. It does. Plus it’s the longest title I’ve encountered this year. Scattered across…
Being a die-hard Darwyn Cooke fan I had Parker: The Martini Edition pre-ordered with no knowledge other than it was oversized and collected the two Parker books. Now that I have it in hand it is so much more. Darwyn…
Vaguely remembering the movie, I saw a solicit for The Keep hardcover collection from IDW so I put in an order at my local comic shop. The keep had stood empty in the Transylvanian Alps for 500 years. No one knew who…
First off I dropped the “John Byrne’s” from the title so it would be somewhat shorter, and I really don’t like it when a creator’s name is inserted into the title. I had heard Byrne was picking up with the…
Astute readers will have noticed I’ve reviewed two Alex Raymond Flash Gordon collections on CBD this year: IDW’s Library Of American Comics (LOAC) The Definitive Flash Gordon And Jungle Jim: 1934-1936 and Titan’s Flash Gordon: On The Planet Mongo, Sundays 1934-1937. Two very…
Another book I had never heard of that was on my local comic shop’s shelf of new releases; the cover grabbed my attention and I gave Winterworld a quick thumbing. I quickly added it to my buy pile and headed…
Most people think of the Disney live-action film when they hear Rocketeer but for comic fans, Dave Stevens’ beautifully illustrated character cheerfully fills our thoughts. December 2009 IDW published the collected Rocketeer works in a regular hardcover and in The…
Had seen The Complete Torpedo Volume 1 solicited in Diamond Previews but didn’t know much about the book. A little internet searching and I found it was a long running Spanish story of a New York hitman in the 1930s:…