Comics Are Expensive returns to Occasional Supeheroine this week, looking at the opening volleys from two brand new books and the second volume of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ superior Noir comic, Criminal. Check it out if you’re into this sort of thing, and (as always) if there are any books you know of that [...]
And back. Sorry about last week – a combination of absolutely no time for anything outside of work and the rather disheartening nature of last week’s intended subject matter conspired against me to result in a lack of column. But now I am returned to you, brimming with wisdom to be shared and a stack [...]
So a funny thing happened on the way to finishing this week’s Comics Are Expensive: I realized I didn’t want to. The idea was to cover the big three of Marvel’s Ultimate line: Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate X-Men, and The Ultimates, all books I read regularly when they first appeared but haven’t touched in years. I [...]
A slightly shorter Comics Are Expensive than planned this week, as work and generally not feeling great conspired against me to to knock the books being talked about down from three to two. While I’m not super happy with the way this week’s piece turned out, the two books up for review are still good [...]
In hindsight, I should really learn to look at the next week’s shipping lists before declaring the subject matter of future columns. Not that this week’s books are bad, mind you, just that, by saying this installment would again be doing the all new books thing, I sorta cheated myself out of the chance to [...]
This week’s Comics Are Expensive is up at Occasional Superheroine, featuring three books picked somewhat at random that I haven’t read before: Incredible Hercules, Fear Agent, and The Boy Who Made Silence. Check it out, won’t you? Of course, I bought more than three comics this week, meaning there were some titles that got left [...]
Ah, the smell of new comics. As promised (or at least, as suggested might happen), this week saw me grab up a number of new titles I’ve never read before in the interest of seeing what else is out there beyond the tried and true mainstays I pick up each month. Lucky for me, it [...]
A shorter than usual Comics Are Expensive this week due to lack of funds and books I haven’t already talked about, but what is there is still pretty fun. Next week’s column should be a whole mess of new books for the talking about, so if there’s anything I should be reading that hasn’t been [...]
This column didn’t turn out exactly as intended. The original plan was to use this week’s piece to go over all the books I’m currently reading with a Draconian eye, switching to trades on some and dropping others entirely in the name of cutting out the chaff. With all the new things I’ve started reading [...]
Busy Wednesday for comics this week, making the new Comics Are Expensive the longest one yet. So long, in fact, that there’s wasn’t room for whole lumbering colossus of text, and the “Quick Bits”, the paragraph reviews introduced last week to cover all the other stuff I’m reading besides the three or four titles getting [...]