I’ve been on a bit of a Batman kick lately, sparked by my need for more shelf space and my waning interesting in graphic novels. No disrespect to the format; I’ve been leaning heavily on audiobooks and beefy paperbacks lately. While it sounds overarchingly negative, this shifted outlook has a silver lining. I’m discovering Batman…
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Catwoman: When In Rome – Here Kitty, There Kitty
Bongiornio, folks! Does anyone fancy a trip to Italy with everyone’s favorite feline antihero? Let’s hop on a plane and join Catwoman in Rome. The graphic novel fills some of the gaps from Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale’s Dark Victory and brings us a new take on Selina Kyle. When In Rome sends Selina Kyle…
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I Hope This Helps – Non-Escapism As Escapism
Tommy Siegel’s I Hope This Helps: Comics And Cures For 21st Century Panic springs right off the what-is-2020 press, and it couldn’t be more timely. To most, Siegel’s name will be justifiably unfamiliar. But both his comics and his music have impressive followings. Siegel is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist for theatrical pop-rock band Jukebox…
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Umbrella Academy – A Blunderous Bumbershoot
The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite, created by My Chemical Romance frontrunner Gerard Way and brought to artistic life by Gabriel Ba, sits at a unique crossroads both within the current cultural zeitgeist and on my bookshelf. With the Netflix adaptation premiering tomorrow as of this writing, I can only imagine the book’s sales have received…
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Skin&Earth – It’s Lit
When an established creator receives a veritable onslaught of support and encouragement to pursue a completely new project in a foreign medium, things like Skin&Earth gloriously explode into the fandom at hand. Skin&Earth Volume One, collecting the first six issues of Lights’ concept-album-turned-comic-book, competes with and pays homage to the best graphic novels of our…
Batman: Haunted Knight – The Hero We Deserve
Happy Halloween everyone, enjoy a special post! Batman: Haunted Knight collects three Halloween tales by writer Jeph Loeb and illustrator Tim Sale. Famous for The Long Halloween and Dark Victory, the pair should be considered among the most trusted minds to weave a fantastic Batman story. Each of the brief stories in Haunted Knight glows…
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Saga – Never Stop Hurting
Speaking of comics. On Tuesday I spoke about my second favorite comic book series, Atomic Robo by Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener, a science fiction series about a sentient robot. While on the subject I thought I might as well also talk about the best comic I have read, Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and…
Atomic Robo – Stop And Smell The Ions
New York Comic con happened a short while ago, and as always I went to go meet up with all the various publishers and meet some of my favorite authors. As I have said in previous years, and will keep saying, Comic cons are meet ups for every fandom on the planet, and I firmly…