tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16575516843522752152011-04-22T05:40:32.772+02:00Trade paperback news and reviews galore!Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.comBlogger631100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-79058563818303546502009-02-07T00:47:00.006+01:002009-02-07T01:07:39.642+01:00

Collects Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8 #1-5 written by Joss Whedon with artwork by Georges Jeanty and Paul Lee.Let me start by confessing to this: I abso-bloody-lutely love Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I was there when the show started its seven year run, I bought the DVDs and I have watched the entire run of the series at least seven times. While the show is not the most perfect run of any

Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09357647077861434636noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-32887562450513480392009-02-03T21:23:00.003+01:002009-02-03T22:33:06.746+01:00

Collects Secret Invasion #1-8 written by Brian Michael Bendis and drawn by Leinil Yu.This is it. The Marvel mega-event that everyone and their grandmother have been talking about for what feels like an eternity. The brainchild of Brian Michael Bendis, the infamous writer who have set forth to change the face of the Marvel Universe, one universe-spanning event at a time. This is his magnum opus (

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Collects Uncanny X-Men #495-499 written by Ed Brubaker with art by Michael Choi.There is no doubt that Brubaker is one of the hottest writers around these days. The Daredevil book hasn't looked as good as it does right now in ages. Captain America is one of the most interesting Marvel reads these days. And the three Criminal books have all amazed readers and critiques alike. But his Uncanny X-Men

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Collects New Avengers: Illuminati #1-5 written by Brian Michael Bendis and Brian Reed and drawn by Jim Cheung.Yet another Secret Invasion prologue before the big bang. The Illuminati, consisting of Iron Man, Black Bolt, Dr.Strange, Mister Fantastic, Namor and Professor X, were introduced early on in New Avengers, and form an important part of the puzzle that is Bendis' vision of the Marvel

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Collects X-Men: Divided We Stand #1-2 written by Mike Carey, Matt Fraction, Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost, Skottie Young, C.B. Cebulski, Duane Swierczynski and Andy Schmidt with art by Brandon Peterson, Jamie McKelvie, Sana Takeda, Skottie Young, Scot Eaton & Andrew Hennessy, David Lafuente, David Yardin, Frazer Irving and Chris Burnham. Also includes the X-Men: Messiah CompleX - Mutant Files

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Collects The Umbrella Suite: Apocalypse Suite #1-6 written by Gerard Way and drawn by Gabriel Bá.This is a book that's been receiving a lot of positive buzz lately, and after reading it I feel obliged to join the parade. Coming pretty much out of nowhere, this book is a serious contender to the 'Surprise Hit of 2008' award. Books written by celebrities usually turn out with mixed results (well,

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Collects Avengers: The Initiative #7-13 written by Dan Slott & Christos Gage and drawn by Stefano Caselli (#7-11) and Steve Yu (#12-13) and Avengers: The Initiative Annual #1 written by Dan Slott & Christos Gage with art by Salvador Larroca, Clayton Henry & Paul Neary, Steve Yu, Tom Feister & Carmine Di Giandomenico and Patrick Scherberger & Dave Meikis.The attempt to cover up the accidental

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Collects Mighty Avengers #7-11 written by Brian Michael Bendis and drawn by Mark Bagley.I thoroughly enjoyed the first volume of this series, and therefore I was really looking forward to this one, even though Frank Cho is off the book. Therefore I was really disappointed to find out out that this is no way near as good as the first one, in fact, it's not very good at all.Venom Bomb contains two

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In 2009, January will be Secret Invasion month! No less than five SI-related tpb's are coming out, and with all the other interesting stuff also on the way, this month looks like it'll be an expensive one for me. Why don't you just skip all the irrelevant side stories? you ask. Well, I'm a sucker for cross-overs, and even though I know half of it (or more, WWH...) will disappoint me, I still

tpbreviewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16134393930986972610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-73895130577991142682008-12-28T18:22:00.001+01:002009-01-27T07:39:08.047+01:00

Collects the X-Men: Messiah Complex one-shot written by Ed Brubaker and drawn by Marc Silvestri, Uncanny X-Men #492-494 written by Ed Brubaker and drawn by Billy Tan, X-Men #44-46 written by Mike Carey and drawn by Chris Bachalo, New X-Men #44-46 written by Craig Kyle & Chris Yost and drawn by Humberto Ramos and X-Factor #25-27 written by Peter David and drawn by Scot Eaton.Before getting to the

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Collects New Avengers #32-37 written by Brian Michael Bendis and drawn by Leinil Yu and New Avengers Annual #2 written by Brian Michael Bendis and drawn by Carlo Pagulayan.Marvel's next big event, Secret Invasion, is moving nearer and nearer and this book is pretty much a prologue to that event. I guess the prologue really started in the previous New Avengers book, in which it was revealed that (

tpbreviewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16134393930986972610noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-66497893960250877072008-12-14T20:19:00.004+01:002008-12-14T21:38:37.047+01:00

Collects Daredevil #88-93 written by Ed Brubaker and drawn by Michael Lark, except for #88 which is drawn by David Aja.This is the second Daredevil book of Brubaker's run, which by the way is still going strong. The first book, which sets up the story in this book, was reviewed in glowing terms here.Matt is out of prison, but now he has to deal with the twin problems of being on the run and

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Collects Amazing Spider-Man #546-548 written by Dan Slott and drawn by Steve McNiven, Amazing Spider-Man #549-551 written by Marc Guggenheim and drawn by Salvador Larroca, Spider-Man: Swing Shift (from Free Comic Book Day 2007) written by Dan Slott and drawn by Phil Jimenez and a story from Venom Super Special #1 written by Dan Slott and drawn by Mark Bagley. Also includes three three-page teaser

tpbreviewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16134393930986972610noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-27021286137245284702008-12-03T11:01:00.004+01:002008-12-03T12:06:31.014+01:00

Collects Annihilation: Silver Surfer #1-4 written by Keith Giffen and drawn by Renarto Arlem, Annihilation: Super Skrull #1-4 written by Javier Grillo-Marxuach and drawn by Gregory Titus and Annihilation: Ronan #1-4 written by Simon Furman and drawn by Jorge Lucas.This is the second book in the Annihilation event, the first book of which was reviewed here.The Annihilation Wave thunders on through

tpbreviewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16134393930986972610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-43798966914575149852008-12-02T11:44:00.003+01:002008-12-02T12:11:28.149+01:00

TpbReviewer asked me to write a supplement to his December picks, which sounded like a cool idea, so here it is. Christmas can be a pain to get through, but luckily there are a few goodies coming out this month to get you through the shopping, the consumerism, the nagging uncles and aunts and the coldness of winter. Yes, I AM the Grinch. Deal with it. This is why I’m going to start my

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Jingle bells, jingle bells...if you still have any money left after buying Christmas presents, why not spend them on comic books! That way you have fewer spending decisions to make and something to do with all the extra time you get from not having to decide on how to spend your money. Okok, on to the picks...The first I want to point out is the two books by David Lapham coming out: Silverfish

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-30009369732026669672008-11-24T13:51:00.005+01:002008-11-24T14:12:30.404+01:00

Collects Northlanders 1-8Written by Brian WoodArtwork by Davide GianfeliceReview by Michael LindalI might be Danish, but I’m not really into Viking stories. They seem too distant from my own life and the world, I live in, which may sound silly as they are very much a part of my cultural heritage. But I admit it: I can be quite narrow minded sometimes. So sue me.I tend to prefer books (be that

Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09357647077861434636noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-3176159176071420212008-11-18T21:14:00.003+01:002008-11-18T22:05:23.389+01:00

Collects Immortal Iron Fist #1-6 plus the 'Choosing Sides' story from Civil War: Choosing Sides #1, all written by Ed Brubaker & Matt Fraction and drawn by David Aja.If people are getting tired of me reviewing Brubaker books, I can understand that. But the truth is, I think that Brubaker is responsible for some of the best (current) Marvel books that money can buy, and missing out on those would

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-52883654791204853772008-11-13T20:27:00.004+01:002008-11-13T21:48:32.234+01:00

Collects Drax the Destroyer #1-4 written by Keith Giffen and drawn by Mitch Breitweiser, Annihilation Prologue written by Keith Giffen and drawn by Scott Collins (with Arial Olivetti) and Annihilation: Nova #1-4 written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning and drawn by Kev Walker.I've never been much into the intergalactic corner of the Marvel Universe, but I heard a lot of good stuff about this one,

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-62012800113161426132008-11-11T20:56:00.008+01:002008-12-14T21:54:45.863+01:00

Collects Daredevil #82-87 written by Ed Brubaker and drawn by Michael Lark and Stefano Gaudiano.The first book of Brubaker and Lark's popular Daredevil run starts right where Bendis left the blind crime fighter. Matt Murdock is in prison, it's a little fluffy of what exactly he stands accused, but the implication is that someone knows that he is Daredevil and that someone is out to put him away

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-23597358517764334452008-11-03T20:17:00.005+01:002008-11-03T22:22:22.112+01:00

Collects Captain America #1-7 (vol. 1) and #8-9 and #11-14 (vol. 2) written by Ed Brubaker and drawn by Steve Epting, Michael Lark, Mike Perkins and John Paul Leon.I don't usually review more than one book at a time, but in this case the titles do sort of indicate that they belong together. They also do read very much like one long story line, and could just as well have been packaged into one

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-16195155026067004892008-10-30T20:16:00.002+01:002008-10-30T20:46:11.898+01:00

November is almost here, so it's time to see what is on offer for those of us who just like to sit indoors and read comic books while the raining is pouring down on the poor souls lost in the fall darkness. Unfortunately, November is a pretty bad month for so-conservative-it's-almost-fascist Marvel zombies such as myself. In fact, I only managed to find three books that I find vaguely interesting

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-38319445368895092692008-10-27T20:03:00.003+01:002008-10-27T21:10:03.059+01:00

Collects Ultimate Power #1-9 written by Brian Michael Bendis (#1-3), J. Michael Straczynski (#4-6) and Jeph Loeb (#7-9) and drawn by Greg Land.This is the first crossover involving all major Ultimate titles and I'm assuming that what happens in this book will have some sort of influence on this year's big Ultimate crossover, Ultimatum, written by Jeph Loeb.While the FF are minding their own

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-66990400547667158602008-10-24T11:19:00.005+02:002008-10-24T12:22:48.604+02:00

Collects Criminal Vol. 2 #1-3 written by Ed Brubaker and drawn by Sean Phillips. This is a review of the edition published in England by Titan Books, which should be completely identical to the American edition published by Marvel.In this, the latest addition to Brubaker and Phillips' dark crime series, the reader is offered three tales of death, drugs and desperation intertwined to tell a

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-80050288075600745002008-10-21T19:51:00.003+02:002008-10-21T21:05:05.827+02:00

Collects Avengers: The Initiative #1-6 written by Dan Slott and drawn by Stefano Casselli (#6 drawn by Steve Yu).When I first heard about this book it didn't really strike me as very interesting, but then I read the two issues that were in World War Hulk: X-Men, and I was immediately impressed, so I decided to try it out anyway. Avengers: Initiative is the direct product of many of the major

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Collects Iron Man 1- 6 written by Warren Ellis with artwork by Adi GranovAccording to British writer Warren Ellis his job at Marvel consists of being the mad scientist in the basement messing around with things and reinventing them. He took a number of D-list characters and created the brilliant Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. (love that title!) and he was also the writer behind the recent shake-up

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-45752965885266784662008-10-18T15:38:00.002+02:002008-10-18T15:55:34.508+02:00

Having realized that I can't possibly keep up with the merciless demands of the Internet when it comes to frequency of posting only by myself, I have begged and begged my comic book reading friends to chip in once in a while, and lo and behold, one of them fell for it! Michael aka.zombie.ghost.thing, whom some of you may know from the comments section of the reviews on this blog, has promised to

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Collects Iron Man: Hypervelocity #1-6 written by Adam Warren and drawn by Brian Denham.I will admit that I bought this book by mistake. I saw Adam Warren's name on the cover and figured 'I haven't seen anything drawn by that guy in a while, he should be interesting on Iron Man, I remember that Teen Titans thing he did, that was pretty good' and quickly put it into my virtual shopping cart. The

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Collects Silver Surfer: Requiem #1-4 written by Michael J. Straczynski with painted art by Esad Ribic.This is the story of the death of the Silver Surfer. He does not die in intergalactic battle nor does he perish at the center of an expanding super nova or imploding black hole. He dies from (space) cancer. Well the actual word 'cancer' isn't to be found in the book, but lets just say that the

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Collects Iron Man #21-28 written by Daniel and Charles Knauf with art by Roberto de la Torre, Butch Guice and Carlo Pagulayan & Jeffrey Huet and Iron Man: Director of Shield Annual #1 written by Christos Gage and drawn by Harvey Tolibao.This is the third book in the Knauf's Iron Man run which so far has been an interesting take on what may be the most powerful super hero in the MU right now. This

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Collects the X-Men: Endangered Species one-shot and the seventeen Endangered Species chapters originally published in X-Men #200-204, Uncanny X-Men #488-491, X-Factor #21-24 and New X-Men #40-42, written by Mike Carey, Christopher Yost and Christos Gage with art by Scott Eaton, Mark Bagley, Mike Perkins, Tom Grummett and Andrea Divito.The mutant population has been in a crisis since the Scarlet

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-30205032652506346632008-09-29T20:12:00.004+02:002008-09-29T21:09:18.579+02:00

Collects Fallen Son: Wolverine, Fallen Son: Avengers, Fallen Son: Captain America, Fallen Son: Spider-Man and Fallen Son: Iron Man, all written by Jeph Loeb and drawn by Leinil Yu, Ed McGuinness, John Romita Jr., David Finch and John Cassaday (in that order).The Civil War is over, and as the dust settles each side count their dead. Among those is Steve Rogers aka. Captain America. This came as a

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-4213664521673426342008-09-28T22:01:00.004+02:002008-09-28T23:04:42.193+02:00

The leaves are falling off the trees outside my window, so what better way to kill time than to sit down and look through tpb solicitations for October!Marvel has finally decided to reprint Marvel Zombies vol. 1 which has been impossible to get for a long while now. As everyone has been talking about this one, and I don't like not to be in the know, this is pretty high on my pull list. I managed

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-66687830163312869872008-09-25T19:56:00.006+02:002008-09-25T21:16:54.128+02:00

Collects Astonishing X-Men #19-24 and Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1 written by Josh Whedon and drawn by John Cassaday.The X-Men find themselves on the way to the Breakworld, the alien world about which it has been prophesied that it will be destroyed by Colossus. They've been hijacked by the mysterious agent Brand to thwart the Breakworldian's plan of destroying the Earth to save their own

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-60809494026814838982008-09-18T20:13:00.004+02:002008-09-18T21:39:28.245+02:00

Collects Amazing Spider-Man #544-545, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #24 and Sensational Spider-Man #41 written by J. Michael Straczynski and drawn by Joe Quesada. Also contains interviews with Straczynski and Quesada taken from Marvel Spotlight: Spider-Man - One More Day/Brand New Day.This book could also have been called Spider-Man: The Retconning. Or maybe Spider-Man: Continuity Kills. Or

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-3460923878406014272008-09-15T20:14:00.004+02:002008-09-15T22:31:41.503+02:00

Collects X-Men #200-204 written by Mike Carey with art by Humberto Ramos, Chris Bachalo and Mike Choi.This book starts pretty much where X-Men: Supernovas ended. The X-Men, led by Rogue who is still suffering from being the unfortunate host of some 8 billion alien minds, is investigating a series of mysterious murders, which leads them into an ambush set up by the Marauders. To make matters worse

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-74956229481051675082008-09-12T12:19:00.006+02:002008-09-12T13:37:04.165+02:00

This is a review of the WWH event as a whole, not just the main WWH book. For a review of the book go here. This is also the final review of my World War Hulk Review Marathon, and I must say I've been looking forward to getting here. The event hasn't been all shiny pearls and now I'm looking forward to reading some non-Hulk books!The quality of an event like WWH is naturally very dependent on the

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-10958401014657527202008-09-12T10:27:00.004+02:002008-09-12T11:16:01.207+02:00

Collects Mighty Avengers #1-6 written by Brian Michael Bendis and drawn by Frank Cho.The Avengers are back! Not the new beat working-in-the-shadows New Avengers, ooh no. This is the Avengers as we know them, facing off against the best villains the MU has to offer with the stature of a real powerhouse team. Iron Man, newly appointed leader of Shield, decides to build a new team of

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-78311720053923294352008-09-08T21:11:00.004+02:002008-09-08T22:34:24.367+02:00

Collects the World War Hulk: Aftersmash one-shot written by Greg Pak and drawn by Rafa Sandoval and World War Hulk Aftersmash: Damage Control #1-3 written by Dwayne McDuffie and drawn by Salva Espin.The Aftersmash one-shot deals with the situation in NY as the dust settles from the WWH brawl. Although the Hulk is gone, his soldiers are still left and they're not giving up so easily. Without a

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-41583076389248502092008-09-07T16:26:00.004+02:002008-09-07T17:11:16.171+02:00

Collects World War Hulk: Warbound #1-5 written by Greg Pak with art by Lenoard Kirk and Rafa Sandoval.This book is actually an Aftersmash title, and takes place right after the Aftersmash oneshot that is included in WWH: Damage Control. After Hulk has been subdued, the Warbound, the Hulk's merry band of alien sword fellows, escapes capture but then find themselves facing the Leader, who has

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-15333911649198762802008-09-04T21:50:00.005+02:002008-09-04T23:04:16.944+02:00

Collects World War Hulk: X-Men #1-3 (Christos Gage/Andrea Divito), Avengers: The Iniative #4-5 (Dan Slott/Stefano Castelli), The Irredeemable Ant-Man #10 (Robert Kirkman/Phil Hester), Ghost Rider #12-13 (Daniel Way/Javier Saltares) and Iron Man #19-20 (Christos Gage/Butch Guice).This is a potpourri of stories from various series that is connected to WWH in smaller or larger degree. None of the

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-49094286162979798272008-09-02T13:23:00.005+02:002008-09-02T21:36:25.611+02:00

Collects Thor #1-6 written by J. Michael Straczynski with art by Olivier Coipel.We interrupt the World War Hulk review marathon with a review of a book I've been waiting to read for a long time! Thor has not been seen publicly since a sub-plot in Avengers: Disassembled (well, it was barely a sub-plot, more like a stand-alone story, really) that left Valhalla, well... disassembled, and Thor

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-46270879154990092192008-09-02T10:45:00.005+02:002008-09-02T15:52:50.686+02:00

Looking at the list of trades that are coming out in September, I have to say there's not a whole lot of books that's making it to my pull list. In fact, I can only see two. Mind you, I do have a bunch of books on my to-read shelf, so it's no big problem, I'm covered. Also, keep in mind that I'm having a self-imposed Marvel-only policy right now. I'm perfectly aware that Marvel does not

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Collects Incredible Hulk #106-111 written by Greg Pak with art by Gary Frank, Leonard Kirk and Carlo Pagulayan.This book rolls along in pretty much exactly the same time frame as the main WWH book, and, although it does have a story of it's own, it serves as more of a complimentary story to that book. Super genius and annoying teenager, Amadeus Cho, wants to repay the Hulk for saving him a while

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-24464679226807288732008-08-25T20:54:00.004+02:002008-08-25T21:50:00.809+02:00

Collects World War Hulk: Gamma Corps #1-4 written by Frank Tieri and drawn by Carlos Ferreira.I'll try to make this short and sweet, as I don't want to spend too much time on this sorry excuse for a comic book. The evil general Stryker brings together a strike force of super guys and gals that all have two things in common: they each have a grudge with the Hulk, and they are each the result of

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-24854411740467245342008-08-24T17:28:00.003+02:002008-08-24T20:30:58.963+02:00

This is the headline under which I will be presenting links to old articles about some of the tpb's that come out each month. I will pick out articles about the trades that I personally find interesting, so if you disagree, try Google instead...This time out I'm a bit delayed, but I'm planning on writing these kinds of posts around the 1st of each month, and then provide links for all the

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Collects World War Hulk Prologue: World Breaker written by Peter David with art by Al Rio, Lee Weeks and Sean Phillips and World War Hulk: Front Line #1-6 written by Paul Jenkins with art by Ramon Bachs, Shawn Martinbrough and Chris Moreno.Before sitting down and reading this book I thought it was a little bit weird that they didn't put the prologue in the main WWH book. After reading this book I

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Marvel has gone and done it again! I was looking through my weekly ComicList mail, and to my joy I noticed a new X-Men tpb, X-Men: Divided We Stand, that will be hitting the stands August 20th. Yea, this sounds great, finally I will know what happens after Messiah Complex, the X-Men event that...hey, waitaminnut! I haven't heard of any solicitations regarding any Messiah Complex tpb's, so I look

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-49054654361562152782008-08-18T20:19:00.004+02:002008-08-18T22:22:24.955+02:00

Collects World War Hulk #1-5 written by Greg Pak and drawn by John Romita Jr.Let me start this review off by airing a complaint which, as a non-American, I think is pretty important. The title of this event is misleading. The story takes place on the Moon and in New York. For a war to be a world war, it has to involve several continents on earth, although I'm not sure about any formal definitions

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-89356053117688882442008-08-17T12:13:00.004+02:002008-08-18T22:22:59.624+02:00

It is true, I will be reviewing all of Marvel's big summer crossover of 2007, which was collected in tpb's a little while ago. I know a lot of people have been dying to read this one, so I will go through each book in the crossover in a semi-logical order, analyzing each punch thrown and dissecting each broken rib.The crossover is pretty much the direct continuation of Planet Hulk, which seems to

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Interesting news came out of San Diego Con this year. Next year the DC imprint Vertigo will launch a sub-imprint called Vertigo Crime. As the name implies the books published will be crime books, but what is really interesting to tpb aficionados is that they will be published as graphic novels, which is really just a fancy word for trade paper back.The more direct-to-tpb books we see, the closer

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-63420933302835349742008-08-11T21:13:00.004+02:002008-08-12T20:39:53.365+02:00

X-Men: Supernovas collects X-Men #188-199 and Annual #1 written by Mike Carey with art by Chris Bachalo, Umberto Ramos, Clayton Henry and Mark Brooks.This book collects three story arcs and one annual, which taken together works as one long storyline. All in all this book contains almost one year worth of X-Men, and it functions as a pretty good jumping on point with a completely new artistic

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-13192093674463767102008-08-10T21:00:00.005+02:002008-09-02T20:50:18.903+02:00

Collects Loki #1-4 written by Rob Rodi and painted by Esad Ribic (Silver Surfer: Requiem).As people unfortunate enough to have read Avengers Disassembled: Thor will remember, that story arc left a number of the gods dead, Loki as the ruler of what was left of Valhalla and Thor in chains at the mercy of Loki. Pretty unusual for this corner of the MU, and also a situation which Loki has more

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Collects X-Men: Emperor Vulcan #1-5 by Christopher Yost and Paco Diaz Luque.Uhm well, yes. Obviously this book is the direct continuation of Uncanny X-Men: Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar Empire. For some reason it was published as a mini-series, maybe so that Brubaker didn't have to it, I don't know. The main plot is about Vulcan and the X-Men momentarily joining forces to kick the collective asses

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-90179003347989354572008-07-16T20:17:00.003+02:002008-12-09T06:11:42.490+01:00

Collects Criminal #6-10 by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.This is the second story in Brubakers and Phillips' hit crime series Criminal, and in tone and style it closely resembles the first story, Coward. This is a very good thing.The story centers around the veteran Tracy Lawless who joins a gang of robbers to get to the bottom of his brother's death. His brother was in the same gang when he was

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-67987190272518550282008-07-13T16:36:00.006+02:002009-01-27T07:46:02.124+01:00

Collects Uncanny X-Men #487-491 by Ed Brubaker and Salvador Larroca.The X-Men are back from chasing Vulcan through space and having mass bar room brawls in Shi'ar land, and are forced to face much more mundane matters such as post-9/11 Morlock terrorists and... well, that's about it.It seems to me that Marvel's editorial line over the last few years has been working hard to make their books more

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-40250152600681414462008-07-13T16:05:00.004+02:002008-12-09T06:11:42.893+01:00

Collects Spider-Man: Reign #1-4 by Kaare Andrews.I like The Dark Knight Returns. It was my favorite comic book, favorite book period in fact, for a long time. I even have a signed hard cover collector's edition of it on my shelf. I also like the works of Kaare Andrews. I really enjoyed his and Zeb Wells' Spiderman/Doctor Octopus: Year One, it's one of the best Spider-Man books I've read in recent

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-12437291599339884222008-06-19T13:10:00.002+02:002009-01-27T07:45:43.841+01:00

Collects Uncanny X-Men #475-486, written by Ed Brubaker with art by Billy Tan and Clayton Henry.This book takes over right where X-Men: Genesis ends. Professor X, feeling slightly responsible for the whole Genesis/Vulcan debacle, convinces a bunch of X-Men to go with him into space to stop Vulcan before he does something bad to the Shi'ar. Meanwhile, a coup against Lilandra involving none other

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-62276708533815130392008-06-18T20:14:00.001+02:002008-12-09T06:11:43.209+01:00

Collects Sub-Mariner #1-6, written by Matt Cherniss and Peter Johnson and drawn by Phil Briones.Ok, this book is slightly more contemporary than the other books I've been reviewing so far, but don't worry, I still have a bunch of old ones I want to go through before I forget about them. After that I expect to write reviews of newer books as they come out. But remember, one of the good things

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-50609231273530973852008-06-12T06:02:00.001+02:002008-12-09T06:11:43.315+01:00

Collects Sensational Spider-Man #35-40 and Annual #1, Spider-Man Family #1-2, Marvel Spotlight: Spider-Man and Spider-Man Black in Black Handbook.Most of this book is written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and drawn by various artists, most notably Angel Medina, Clayton Crain, Lee Weeks and Salvador Larroca.This is the second half of the Back in Black event, the first of which you can read about here.

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-91699561360061667322008-05-18T15:32:00.001+02:002009-01-27T07:44:42.112+01:00

Collects X-Men: Deadly Genesis #1-6, written by Ed Brubaker with art by Trevor Hairsine. Back-up stories drawn by Pete Woods.Ok, this series isn't exactly new, I believe the tpb was published in 2006, but the story lays the foundation of what has been going on in one corner of the X-universe recently, and that's why I found myself compelled to read it.After giving new life to Captain America (who

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-57623022227373747862008-04-28T21:05:00.000+02:002008-12-09T06:11:43.710+01:00

Collects Amazing Spider-Man #539-543 and Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #17-23 and Annual #1.Ok, let me start out by saying that Spider-Man is my all time favorite super hero, and a mere cameo of Spidey will bump the quality of any comic book up a notch or two for me. That said, I don't like creative teams on the Spidey-books fucking things up (you know, "With great power, comes great

Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03673991729454444694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657551684352275215.post-56897514491884559452008-04-21T06:14:00.000+02:002008-07-07T20:22:50.282+02:00

Let's face it. Comic book book magazines are dead. At least they've started to smell rotten, and it won't be long before only a select few will continue to buy them, in a desperate attempt to preserve comic books the way they've always loved them and to keep the precious specialty stores alive.What I'm talking about here is the move from comic books published as magazines to comic books published

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