The third volume of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ Criminal series contains three interlocking tales all revolving around Danica, a beautiful but ultimately flawed woman. With this volume, you’re beginning to see their universe take shape. There are characters resurfacing, settings reappearing and themes continuing. With Brubaker, the writing, as always, is top-notch and his…
The setting moves to sleazy 1970s Hollywood where Jo is living the life of a rich recluse. As we’ve grown to know, Josephine is never far from controversy and when a B-list actor and his butchered friend nearly fall into her lap, Jo must try to avoid all the violence that they inadvertently bring with…
Brubaker & Phillips’ Fatale But what good was it loving someone so perfect when you were watching yourself crumble to dust every morning in the mirror? The reigning comic book world tag team champions of the world return for another round of awesome with a new series! This time around, Brubaker and Phillips are weaving…
Gotham Central Vol. 4 *** Potential Spoilers Below*** Gotham Central is by far, my favorite complete comic/graphic novel series I’ve read to date (However, Locke and Key isn’t finished yet and that’s nipping at it’s heels). With the exception of that strange Infinite Crisis story line imposed within the middle of this collection, this was…
Batman: The Man Who Laughs I was handed this by a friend who had given it a high amount of praise. When I saw that Ed Brubaker had written it, I couldn’t blame him! Of course it’s going to be awesome, it has Brubaker’s name attached to it.So, before I cracked open this graphic novel, I knew…
Gotham Central Vol 3: On The Freak Beat I honestly didn’t expect to love this series as much as I did when I started it. The fact that you’re asking me to read about Gotham but you’re not going to give a whole lot of love to The Dark Knight himself? Blasphemy! Turns out when…
Gotham Central Vol 2: Joker’s & Madmen The second collection from the Brubaker/Rucka written series, Gotham Central, follows the much the same formula as the first. While I liked this volume just as much as the first, it may pull ahead slightly thanks to the introduction of Joker to the series. His arc, Soft Targets…
Ed Brubaker’s Incognito: Bad Influences After I put down Incognito a few months back, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on the sequel. Unfortunately, I was on the bottom of the list when it came to borrowing it from my local library. Instead of running to my local Chapters and snagging it as soon…
Every Read Thing 