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Review: ‘Bottomless Belly Button’ by Dash Shaw
Dash Shaw has a strange habit of defining things, of explaining all the elements of his world in minute detail. In his new 700-plus page graphic novel Bottomless Belly Button (Fantagraphics, $29.99),...
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The Weekly Haul: Reviews for June 19, 2008
Let’s get this out of the way up front: Not a great week for comics. A few good eggs, but a whole lot of blah hit the shelves this week. So it goes. In other news, I’ll be in Charlotte at Heroes Con...
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Review: This Week in ‘Trinity’– Part 3
It’s time we talked about Kurt Busiek. He’s the brain behind this weekly operation and, in case you’re new to comics, he’s one hell of a writer. And there’s one particular quality that sets him apart....
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Review: ‘Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War Vol. 2′
This past weekend at Heroes Con, a panel of some of comics’ biggest stars weighed in on collaboration and, eventually, the art of the crossover. Mostly, that meant griping about the impossible task of...
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Review: ‘Madame Xanadu #1′ by Matt Wagner and Amy Reeder Hadley
Fresh off another successful Grendel run and two excellent Batman miniseries (Monster Men</em> and <em>Mad Monk), Matt Wagner is switching gears so hard he may have just shredded the...
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Review: This Week in ‘Trinity’– Part 4
We’re up to week five of DC’s big weekly event, and I regret to inform you that I’ve already caught myself thinking "same old, same old." What happened? The fight with Konvikt continued, with all the...
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Review: ‘All Star Batman and Robin Vol. 1′
A couple years ago, back when Frank Miller and Jim Lee’s All Star Batman and Robin started inconsistently shipping, I read the first few issues and then waved the series off. I hated it so much I...
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The Weekly Haul: Comics Reviews for July 3, 2008
Things looked dour headed into the comics shop this week, but several books came out of left field and left me impressed. Rare that happens anymore when books get chewed over ad nauseum before they...
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Review: This Week in ‘Trinity’ #5
First things first: I actually, gasp, liked this issue. For the first time ever, Kurt Busiek pulled the storylines together and gave a sense of the big things ahead. Not perfect, but much better than...
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The Weekly Haul: Comics Reviews for July 11, 2008
All around, a great week for comics even in the face of a few serious missteps. And while the latest Secret Invasion was quite good, it was the monthlies that really kicked into high gear. Let’s get...
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Review: This Week in ‘Trinity’ #6
Things started to coalesce in last week’s Trinity #5, and issue six keeps moving in the right direction with DC’s big three coming to realize there’s a big problem building, and they’re at the center...
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Review: ‘Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko’
As a history of Steve Ditko’s career as a comics artist, Strange and Strange: The World of Steve Ditko is an unquestionable triumph, the latest in a top-notch series of art books from Fantagraphics....
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The Weekly Haul: Comics Reviews for July 17, 2008
A couple disappointments and a near no-show from DC aside, this was a pretty good week in comics, especially outside of the mainstream superheroes. Still, this week more than anything is just a little...
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Review: This Week in ‘Trinity’ #7
This issue is titled "A third symbol now…" but a more accurate one would be "OK, so here’s exactly what’s going on." For six issues, Trinity was a fairly opaque book, with several seemingly disparate...
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The Weekly Haul: Comics Reviews for July 26
Wait a second, reviews of actual comic book? Isn’t Comic-Con going on? Yes and yes. I made it to the comics shop a bit belated this week on account of the San Diego craziness, but apparently real...
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Review: This Week in Trinity – Part 8
As Comic-Con starts to lull into submission (begin your hype for ’09!), I finally get a chance to sit down with the latest issue of DC’s weekly Trinity and ask myself again why I ever agreed to do...
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Review: ‘The Number’ by Thomas Ott
The sequence of numbers 73304-23-4153-6-96-8 sit at the top of each page of the superlative new horror graphic novel The Number by Swedish artist Thomas Ott.. Those repeated numbers create a cadence...
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Review: ‘Burma Chronicles’ by Guy Delisle
With all of the past year’s insanity in Burma — mainly monk uprisings and government oppressions — you’d think Guy Delisle’s nonfiction comic Burma Chronicles would be especially topical. But you’d be...
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Review: ‘Shmobots’ by Adam Rifkin and Les Toil
Shmobots is a pretty stupid book on its face. And it’s pretty stupid inside too. Government negligence leads to a city full of worthless robots (termed Shmobots), and three of the laziest ones hang...
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The Weekly Haul: Comics Reviews for July 30
A pretty slow week in comics, as everyone’s still gasping for breath post Comic-Con (including me, even though I stayed at home this year). Not even a dozen books worth reading this week, and I...
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Review: This Week in ‘Trinity’– Part 9
This ridiculous villain thing has officially gone too far. First, we have the “evil trinity” of Despero, Morgaine Le Fey and Enigma. Then there’s been Howlers galore and a trio of baddies headlined by...
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Review: ‘Meathaus: SOS’
I was talking to cartoonist Jim Rugg recently about comics anthologies, and he said his thought as a reader is that each collection should have one great story, and then anything else good is just...
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Review: ‘After 9/11′ by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón
A few years back, Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón came up with the novel idea of retelling the 9/11 Commission Report in comic book form. Now they’re back with something of a sequel, After 9/11:...
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Review: “Air” by G. Willow Wilson and M.K. Perker
There’s something so unabashedly original about writer G. Willow Wilson that it’s nearly impossible to not enjoy her comics projects, like last year’s graphic novel Cairo and this week’s new series...
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New Pulp Comics Spotted on Necessary Roughness
Some comic books featuring work by New Pulp Creators Milton Davis, Mark Maddox, Nancy Holder, and Bobby Nash (among others) made a brief (and we mean brief so don’t blink) appearance on the July 24th...
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