DETECTIVE COMICS #27 Written by Brad Meltzer, Gregg Hurwitz, Peter J. Tomasi, Francesco Francavilla, Mike Barr, John Layman and Scott Snyder Art by Bryan Hitch, Neal Adams, Ian Bertram, Francesco Francavilla, Guillem March, Jason Fabok, and Sean Murphy Release Date: January 8, 2014 Anniversaries can be tough. A little less than a year ago, DC…
Review: SAMURAI JACK #1
SAMURAI JACK #1 Written by Jim Zub Art by Andy Suriano Release Date: October 23, 2013 I was a huge fan of the early 2000s Samurai Jack cartoon. I have the entire series run on DVD. In concept, Samurai Jack was an animated mash-up of Akira Kurasawa, Sergio Leone, and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, but…
Review: CODE MONKEY SAVE WORLD #1
CODE MONKEY SAVE WORLD #1 Written by Greg Pak Art by Takeshi Miyazawa Release Date: October 16, 2013 Before you pick up Code Monkey Save World, you should know that it’s a rather juvenile title, in the best possible sense. It’s clever, and willing to accept each of its ideas on its own terms without…
Review: WONDER WOMAN #24
WONDER WOMAN #24 Written by Brian Azzarello Art by Goran Sudzuka Published by DC Comics Release Date: October 16, 2013 I can understand why long term Wonder Woman fans might be unhappy with the direction Brian Azzarello has taken Diana’s story. For all its strengths — and there are many — Azzarello’s Wonder Woman is…
Review: BATMAN #23
BATMAN #23 Written by Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV Art by Greg Capullo, Danny Miki, and Rafael Albuquerque Release Date: August 14, 2013 Let’s get the basic review stuff out of the way quickly: Batman #23 is good. The writing brings together moments from Bruce’s youth and childhood as he reaches an iconic moment,…
Review: DIAL H #15
DIAL H #15 Written by China Miéville Art by Alberto Ponticelli and Dan Green Release Date: August 7, 2013 Have I really never until now written a Dial H review? At first, it was my favorite title of the second wave of DC’s New 52 (which included the relaunch of Batman Incorporated). The tale of…
Review: BATMAN INCORPORATED #13
BATMAN INCORPORATED #13 Written by Grant Morrison Art by Chris Burnham Release Date: July 31, 2013 The loop is finally closed. The only thing left to do is to trace the echoes. Grant Morrison has been writing his Batman story for nearly seven years now, and taken by itself, Batman Incorporated #13 can almost seem…
Review: BATMAN SUPERMAN #2
BATMAN/SUPERMAN #2 Written by Greg Pak Art by Jae Lee Release Date: July 24, 2013 Batman/Superman #1, for all its promise, wasn’t quite a perfect comic. The first encounter between Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne had a bit more meat to it than the first meeting of Superman and Batman later in the issue. As…
Review: JUPITER’S LEGACY #2
JUPITER’S LEGACY #2 Written by Mark Millar Art by Frank Quitely Release Date: June 26, 2013 There’s an air of the classical about Jupiter’s Legacy, and not just in the 30s era pulp adventurer-and-his-family-on-a-boat origin Millar and Quitely gave us back in issue #1. At first glance this might seem to be yet another up-to-the-minute…
Review: THE X-FILES: SEASON 10 #1
THE X-FILES: SEASON 10 #1 Written by Joe Harris and Chris Carter Art by Michael Walsh Release Date: June 19, 2013 It’s natural to approach a new X-Files comic with questions, and after reading the first issue of “Season 10,” there are some I can help with and some that I can’t. Would a “Season…