When Marvel sent me a review copy of Deadly Storm, I took the opportunity to ask if they had any other trades they wanted to send for review. When they said “yes,” I didn’t expect a boatload of trade paperbacks in return but I received two boxes worth of stores. Some ...

Happy Comic Release Day! Today’s review is about Time Bomb, an aptly named comic from Radical Publishing. I read the first issue a while back and thought it was fun but waited until it was collected in a trade paperback to write a review. Summary: In the present day, a mysterious rocket created ...

For my kids, Shonen Jump was the gateway to manga. They had watched a boatload of anime on television. So when a subscription to Shonen Jump was available through the Scholastic Book Club, my eldest son talked me into it. He soon became hooked. His bedroom trunk is now covered in Shonen Jump ...

CrossGen Entertainment was an ambitious experiment in creating a new type of comic book company. In existence from 1998-2004,  CrossGen featured stories that included everything from galactic adventures, magical court intrigue, a young girl trying to regain her family’s legacy, a steampunk detective and, near the end, a female pirate. Though ...

Beware the creatures of the night. They have lawyers. That’s the tagline for the stories of Alanna Wolff and Jeff Byrd, lawyers who represent a very specific clientele in the long-running comic strip, book and, finally, webcomic Supernatural Law. In the introduction to Mr. Negativity and Other Tales of Supernatural Law, ...

My eldest son handed me Kurozakuro from a stack of review copies I received from Viz last month. He said it was like a reverse Spider-Man and, after reading it, I think he’s right. Summary: All kind and gentle Mikito Sakurai wants is for the bullies at school to leave him alone. ...

I confess, I gave up reading monthly Batman comics in 2004 after DC  featured the bloody body of a teenage girl on the cover. Insult was added to injury when DC Direct later came out with a figure of Black Mask, Stephanie’s killer, complete with the items used to torture her. Not ...

Happy Comics Release Day! After enjoying Hotwire: Deep Cut #1 from Radical Comics, I was intrigued enough to ask for a review copy the first trade paperback of the series, Requiem for the Dead. I wasn’t disappointed. Summary: Alice Hotwire, Detective Exorcist. In his introduction to the book, Steve Pugh talks about how he likes ...

With the big news of Batman fictionally franchising last week, I started thinking of how Marvel is handling its multiply-named heroes. Especially Captain America. That’s because Bruce Wayne and Steve Rogers have striking similarities.  Their sheer force of will is their strongest power, not their weapons or any enhanced physical skills or ...

I thought about going with a traditional zombie story for Halloween week, such as Marvel Zombies or DC’s Blackest Night but instead I turned to Children of the Grave from IDW, a unique zombie war story that has heart and a moral center. Summary: The story follows three hardened American war veterans, ...