Miscellaneous Comic Book Content

Civil War #5 continues all of the bad traditions of the miniseries we’ve discussed so far, while hinting at how it could have succeeded where it fails. The biggest and most consistent problem throughout...

I typically don’t pay a lot of attention to titles of trade paperbacks. They mostly feel like afterthoughts. The title of the series is the important part, the trade itself is just whatever fits the material...

Garth Ennis loves America the way that I love Las Vegas: fascinated by the unashamed spectacle, but eventually baffled by the idiots who roam the streets. "Dixie Fried" is perhaps the perfect example of this,...

THE WINTER COLLECTION from 2DCLOUD   In my world, the best comics are the ones that are being produced by exciting, boundary-pushing creators that are either self-published or curated by...

Mystery Girl #2 Publisher: DARK HORSE COMICS (W) Paul Tobin (A/CA) Alberto Alburquerque The first issue of Mystery Girl was so wonderful. Trine is kind of like Dirk Gently. She just knows things. She...

In the late 1980s, Raymond Briggs produced some of his most adult-oriented work, including the Tin Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman, first published in the United Kingdom in 1983, and the droll...

Limbo #2 Publisher: IMAGE COMICS (W) Dan Watters (A/CA) Caspar Wijngaard Wow! This was great! And I had high hopes for it because I loved the first one so I'm impressed that it lived up to my...

So I know I generally tell you what I'm looking forward to in the indie world of comics, but this week there are a couple of big two books that I'm just too excited about not to mention. Therefore, this...

I liked Grantland.  Who didn't?  The articles were well written and, perhaps more importantly, well considered.  These weren't your every day "here's a thing I like/hate and why" columns you find on so many...

Kyle Garret: There's this thing that happens with historical fiction, be it based in a germ of truth or not: we forget history.  The stories are generalized modified for modern sensibilities, but we never...