JLA: Justice For All is a Beautiful Ode to DC
I always find it funny when people claim that Grant Morrison hates superheroes because nothing could be further from the truth. Morrison LOVES superheroes, perhaps to an unhealthy extent. He is also...
Morrison’s JLA: ‘Rock of Ages’ and the Power of Improvisation
I have a theory about music. My theory holds that the best music sounds improvised. The best music has an energy and freshness that causes you to tap your feet or nod your head even after the hundredth listen...
JLA: “American Dreams” Reimagines Three Classic Characters for the Better
Even in the late 90s, when Morrison and Porter were working on JLA, there were still a number of classic DC characters in relative limbo. Morrison is something of a traditionalist when it comes to superhero...
Preacher Volume Six: War in the Sun
So. Preacher. I feel like I'm repeating what everyone else has said about Preacher so far in this review series, but wow. I have mixed feelings about this book. Like many others, when I first read...
JLA: “New World Order” Gives Us the Best Justice League
Yes, I am claiming that this line-up of the Justice League is the best. I fully admit that the animated Justice League line-up is fantastic and, really, should have been the line-up chosen for the New 52...
Preacher Volume Four: Ancient History
If there is one thing I can glean about Garth Ennis from his writing, it’s his platonic ideal of a man. Such a man is beholden to neither government nor religion, to no authority save himself, whose code of...
Preacher Volume Three: Proud Americans
"Proud Americans" is a difficult collection to re-read, particularly if you're doing so (at least) a good 15 years later. It is, in part, difficult because I know more now than I did then, about comics, about...
Preacher Volume One: Gone To Texas
Welcome to the first part of Comics Bulletin’s group review of Preacher. As we did with our previous reviews of Sandman, our team will run these columns one per week, with articles from different authors...
Sandman: The Wake
Every Wednesday we’ll be running a piece on a volume of Sandman. You can find Jason Sacks’s introduction to the series here. You can find Mark Stack’s overview of “Preludes and Nocturnes”...
Sandman: The Kindly Ones
Every Wednesday we’ll be running a piece on a volume of Sandman. You can find Jason Sacks’s introduction to the series here. You can find Mark Stack’s overview of “Preludes and Nocturnes”...