Thanks to Diamond, my favourite shop didn't have Wonder Woman #9 this week. Hopefully it will show up next Wednesday. Best Comic of the Week: The Manhattan Projects #3 Written by Jonathan Hickman Art by Nick Pitarra I guess if you're going to have a comic about the hidden scientific project »»
Best Comic of the Week: Morning Glories #18 Written by Nick Spencer Art by Joe Eisma If there's one thing about Nick Spencer's terrific series Morning Glories that you can always count on, it's that there is always another layer to the story waiting to be uncovered. And it seems that each ne »»
The Book I Think You Should Buy: Forgetless: Live to See Last Call by Nick Spencer, W. Scott Forbes, Marley Zarcone, and Jorge Coelho; Image, $14.99 Of Nick Spencer's early comics, before he began his fantastic Morning Glories, and before he began writing for DC (T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents) and »»
The Books I Think You Should Buy: The theme for this week is comics that are much better than I expected them to be. Animal Man Vol. 1 The Hunt by Jeff Lemire, Travel Foreman, and Steve Pugh; DC, $14.99 Prior to the relaunch of the New 52 at DC, Animal Man is one of the old titles that I h »»
The Book I Think You Should Buy: Chew Vol. 5 Major League Chew by John Layman and Rob Guillory; Image, $12.99 Chew is an excellent comic - funny, unique, and very new-reader friendly, while also telling a very complex story that builds on itself in such a way that the writer and artist are co »»
The Book I Want to Buy: Shooters by Brandon Jerwa, Eric Trautmann, and Steve Lieber; Vertigo, $22.99 The solicitation for this new graphic novel from Vertigo caught my eye, because of the involvement of Eric Trautmann and Steve Lieber. Trautmann worked with Greg Rucka on DC's Checkmate, and »»
Once again, it's time to dig into a new Previews, and see what wonders are coming our way in June. Dark Horse I've been liking the previews of Brian Wood and Kristian Donaldson's new story The Massive, and am excited to start reading the on-going comic. I like the idea that it's about enviro »»
Best Comic of the Week: Chew #25 Written by John Layman Art by Rob Guillory I don't know how Layman and Guillory are just so good at giving Chew fans what they want (even when they don't know that they wanted it until after it happened) with each and every issue. There are so many terrific m »»
The store where I shop each week was shorted on copies of Secret Avengers and The New Deadwardians, so expect those to be reviewed next week. Best Comic of the Week: The Walking Dead #95 Written by Robert Kirkman Art by Charlie Adlard and Cliff Rathburn Robert Kirkman's taken a little time to »»
Best Comic of the Week: Freedom #1 by Seamus Heffernan This comic caught my eye on the stands this week. At 8" by 12", it towered over the other comics, looking more like a European comic, yet in soft cover. Curious, I picked it up and was delighted to see that it was an historical comic wi »»
The Book I Think You Should Buy: Northlanders Vol. 6 - Thor's Daughter by Brian Wood, Simon Gane, Matthew Woodson, and Marian Churchland;Vertigo, $14.99 Brian Wood's Viking series Northlanders is coming close to its conclusion, and that really is a shame, as Wood has used his format of tellin »»
Nothing brings more excitement to the comics fan than a new issue of Previews, chock full of the promise of ever-growing events designed to drain your wallet, double-shipped books, sexy statues, and, somewhere between all the filler, some new projects legitimately worth getting excited about. So h »»
For a 'fifth week', which had a much smaller than usual list of things for me to buy, I think this may be the strongest new comics week I've seen in months. Great stuff lies ahead. Best Comic of the Week: Scalped #56 Written by Jason Aaron Art by RM Guera With this issue, the final story ar »»
The Book I Want to Buy: Afrika by Hermann; Dark Horse, $15.99 I'm a sucker for a good cover, and an interesting locale. I know nothing about this comic except that it was originally published in Belgium, and that it's set in Africa. Looking at the solicitation text for Afrika, we learn: »»
Sometimes I find myself being more excited about the new Previews than any of the new comics I bought in a given week. I guess it's all about the anticipation of something new and shiny, instead of the realization that it's often the same old thing... Comics are making me cynical lately, but the »»
The Book I Want To You Buy: Crogan's Loyalty by Chris Schweizer; Oni Press, $14.99 It surprised me to see that a new volume of Chris Schweizer's Crogan's ____ series was coming out. I'd kind of forgotten about it, or assumed that it was not going to be continued, but I'm very happy to be wr »»
Maybe it's just my mood, but I didn't find a whole lot in this month's Previews that got my blood flowing. Still, here are a few random observations or musings that crossed my mind while arranging my pull-list for July. DC I didn't find much to say going through the DC solicitations this mon »»
May is the best time of the year to be a comics fan, especially if you live in Toronto, as it's the first week-end of that month that holds Free Comic Book Day and the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. I picked up a fair sized pile of good stuff at TCAF, which I will be writing about in the coming »»
Best Comic of the Week: Spaceman #6 Written by Brian Azzarello Art by Eduardo Risso We are now two-thirds of the way through Azzarello and Risso's new series, and we finally get to see how the other half lives in this so-far dirty and bleak vision of the future. Tara is a young girl who is »»
Best Comic of the Week: Prophet #24 Written by Brandon Graham, Farel Dalrymple, and Matt Sheean Art by Farel Dalrymple and Malachi Ward How wonderful is this comic? I feel like, between the last issue and this one, I have a better handle on what Brandon Graham and his collaborators intend to »»
Best Comic of the Week: Secret #1 Written by Jonathan Hickman Art by Ryan Bodenheim It seems like almost every week there is a new on-going or mini-series coming from Image that is of the highest degree of quality and ingenuity. This week, the second of two new Jonathan Hickman-written serie »»
The Books I Think You Should Buy: The Infinite Horizon by Gerry Duggan and Phil Noto; Image, $17.99 One of the biggest benefits to reading comics in trade or graphic novel is that you get to choose how much time you devote to a story, and you get to be the one who picks the pace at which you »»
The Book I Want to Buy: American Barbarian by Tom Scioli; Adhouse, $19.95 I'm going to admit that I'm not the biggest Jack Kirby fan. I know that saying something like that is considered sacrilegious to many a comics fan, but there you have it. I appreciate the characters he created, and »»
The Books I Want to Buy: Gone to Amerikay by Derek McCulloch and Colleen Doran; Vertigo, $24.99 Here's the solicitation text for Gone to Amerikay, a new Vertigo graphic novel: This sweeping, century-spanning graphic novel explores the vivid history of Irish émigrés to New York City via thr »»
Well, this was one massive week for comics, with a number of new series starting, some ending, and a couple reaching the point where I feel it's better to part ways with them. This is an exciting time to be a comics fan, especially with the quality of creator-owned books coming from publishing hou »»
I apologize for the lateness of my column this week. I was out of town. Best Comic of the Week: The Manhattan Projects #1 Written by Jonathan Hickman Art by Nick Pitarra I'm not even sure where to begin with this new series by the brilliant Jonathan Hickman. I am very happy to see Hickman »»
It's all about unusual visions of the future this week, with two different books with 'City' in the title. The Books I Think You Should Buy: Compleat Terminal City by Dean Motter and Michael Lark; Dark Horse, $24.99 Dean Motter is usually best known for his work on Mister X, but since that s »»
Best Comic of the Week: Prophet #22 Written by Brandon Graham Art by Simon Roy Prophet is definitely my new favourite comic. At the moment, I even like it more than The Walking Dead and Scalped, which are usually tied as the books I most look forward to each month. I guess I need to give B »»
Best Comic of the Week: Glory #23 Written by Joe Keatinge Art by Ross Campbell Rob Liefeld's relaunch of Extreme Comics, his line of derivative excessive 90s characters, is now 2 for 2 with the return of Glory. I have no idea who Glory used to be, but now she is an other-dimensional warrior »»
The Books I Think You Should Buy: Pigs Vol. 1 Hello Cruel World by Nate Cosby, Ben McCool, Breno Tamura, and Will Sliney; Image, $12.99 Pigs is an interesting series. I'd like to say that it's a great series, but so far, the storytelling has not exactly lived up to the promise of the concep »»
