Batman: Black & White (Vol. 1)

I love it when Batman is stripped back to his absolute core – a detective on the mean streets of Gotham. While there’s still a lot of stuff in this volume that takes the Caped Crusader in totally different directions, the majority of the stories rely heavily on the gritty Gotham streets in which Batman…

Batman: Noel

I have a slight obsession with Christmas.  No, I’m not the kind that advocates that you keep Christ in Christmas or even the kind of guy who goes to church once a year on Christmas Eve.  In fact, I’m not religious in the slightest.  What I’m all about are the Christmas specials, the movies, the…

Marvel 1602

Sudden strange disturbances in weather have provoked panic all over Europe.  With Queen Elizabeth on her deathbed, political maneuvering has begun in an effort to slide the “witchbreed” (mutants) hating James VI of Scotland into a ruling position.  Before her passing, the Queen instructs Sir Nicolas Fury to arrange for the safe passage of an…

The Posthumous Man

Elliot Spilling wakes up in a hospital to discover he succeeded in killing himself.  Well, for three minutes anyway.  A chance encounter with a nurse leads to Elliot injecting himself into a plan to steal millions in drugs from a hospital shipment.  Will Elliot and his new found associates reap the rewards of a successful…

Hell on Church Street

“Then again, the third fundamental truth of life is this: to 99.9% of the world you don’t exist. I’m not being self-pitying when I say that because I’m talking about you. You do not exist to most of the rest of the world. How many people even know you’re alive? Of those, how many care?…

A Walk Among The Tombstones

A young lady is snatched by a pair of lowlifes and held for ransom.  Her husband, drug dealer Kenan Khoury, is forced to cough up four hundred thousand for her safe return.  Upon payment, her husband is told to collect her from the trunk of a car not far from his home.  Hoping to reunite…

Neverwhere

Richard Mayhew is a young, successful businessman living in London.  One evening, while on his way to dinner with his fiance, he spots an injured girl bleeding on the sidewalk.  Refusing to continue on with his evening until the girl is looked after, Richard takes her to his apartment after her refusal to see a…