The Stand: Soul Survivors Nick Andros continues on his trek across America, stumbling across Tom Cullen, a mentally handicapped survivor of the plague. While the two aren’t exactly compatible at first, they soon realize that they’re important to one another after two near death experiences. We’re also catching up on Larry Underwood’s journey as he…
The Stand: American Nightmares Picking up where part one left off, American Nightmares further showcases the already established characters dealing with the aftermath of Captain Trips while still introducing new players in the story. Stu Redman contemplates escape from the CDC while Larry Underwood meets up with another woman as they begin their slow trek…
Preacher: Proud Americans Proud Americans is a pretty big deal. I mean, a lot happens here. Ennis only scratched the surface in the prior collection detailing the secret religious organization, The Grail. In Proud Americans, we’re given a bit of a back story behind Starr’s hatred for their groups leader as well as their ridiculous…
The Stand: Captain Trips The first five issues in Marvel’s adaptation of Stephen King’s famous novel The Stand, are contained within the first collection, Captain Trips. A virus is let loose from a top secret government facility causing people to exhibit symptoms in line with the flu. However, this strain is 100% fatal. Following the…
Garth Ennis’s Preacher In Until The End of the World, we learn a great deal more about the past of both Jesse and Tulip. Both are placed in a position where escape seems unlikely, therefore, what better time to unburden their past to one another? Ennis also gives a little more of an explanation to why…
Garth Ennis’s Preacher This was probably the easiest five stars I’ve handed out to a comic collection. From the insane violence combined with the wildly original story, the first volume of Preacher did exactly what it was supposed to do: hook me and leave me begging for more.Following it’s unexpected escape, the dangerous offspring of an Angel and a…
Knightfall: Knight’s End I was really letdown by how this series finished up. Don’t get me wrong, where they went with this story made a lot of sense as it was the most logical conclusion. Of course Batman was going to return to prominence and confront Azrael, it was what they had been setting up…
Knightfall Vol. 2 I spent the majority of my review for Knightfall: Volume 1 gushing over how much I enjoyed the story and how pumped up it made me for The Dark Knight Rises. Having just finished Volume 2 and seen The Dark Knight Rises twice, I can easily say that I enjoyed this collection…
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