After nearly ten years of daily comics, Bill Watterson hung up his pencil in 1995 and capped off his critically acclaimed strip, Calvin & Hobbes. Ten years later, Watterson worked with Andrews McNeel Publishing to put out a complete box set (three volumes in hardback / four in paperback). The result is a gorgeous collection…
Writer, podcaster and big-time wrestling fan Aubrey Sitterson joined up with artist Chris Moreno to take on the herculean task of producing a comprehensive yet constrained history of professional wresting within the medium of a comic book. The duo begins in the very early days of the art form by exploring its roots within traveling…
Sixteen years after publishing “The Dark Knight Strikes Again”, and thirty-one years after his ground-breaking first Batman run with “The Dark Knight Returns”, Frank Miller returns to The Caped Crusader with THE DARK KNIGHT III: THE MASTER RACE. I’ll be the first to say that The Dark Knight Returns is pretty much flawless – it…
Told from the perspective of Phil Sheldon, a freelance photographer, Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross’ MARVELS captures the arrival of a group of superheroes and supervillains that ultimately wreak havoc on the lives of ordinary people. The story moves through several decades ultimately ending in the 1960s corresponding with an explosion of tights-wearing super-beings and…
Spending his golden years pumping out serialized comics, former outlaw Max Winter has been struggling to keep his head above water. When his employer changes the game with its production, the pittance he once received for his work sounds great compared to his new rate. After a heroic act fending off a gang of thugs…
Solutions and Other Problems, Allie Brosh’s follow-up to her critically acclaimed first book, Hyperbole and a Half, had a lot to live up to. Like many people, I’ve been waiting for this book for years. The book had been plagued with delays leaving her readers believing that the book may never actually see the light…
Spider-Man: Life Story is an attempt on the part of Chip Zdarsky to present a true beginning-to-end story of the web-slinger as the character ages in real time from the 1960s onward. I thought this was a great idea. Comic book characters are essentially immortal (unless you’re killing them off to sell books) and timeless,…
The second volume of the original black and white classics collects issues eight through eleven as well as the Michelangelo, Donatello and Leonardo one-shot issues. This one kicks off with a bang focusing on Michelangelo as he chases down a couple of ne’er-do-wells who robbed a children’s toy store on Christmas Eve. Anyone that knows…
