Chuck

By Greg Burgas The final volume of Rex Mundi is offered on page 33 (3 February). I'm really hoping for a giant Omnibus or two. DC: Classy! The third (and sadly, final) trade of Young Liars is out on page 116 (20 January). Pick it up and have your mind blown!

By MarkAndrew HE'S covering everything even cross-wise tangentally related to Bendis' New Avengers, including issues of Punisher War Journal, the Pulse, Captain America, and Ladies Golf Quarterly but I'm only responding to the strictly New Avengers-y stuff. So you're spared my "Why Brubaker's Ca...

By Chad Nevett Every character in the book is only capable of seeing things in terms of black and white, with us or against us… and there’s nothing wrong with that, but Millar hides that horribly cynical and depressing worldview under the guise of optimism and hope. It’s the opposite of Warren Ellis’s wri...

By Greg Hatcher Rather like Donald Sutherland’s character in Backdraft, if you ever saw that one.) And yet it all feels amazingly fresh and new, because all this is set against the backdrop of the character premise I talked about at the beginning, of Dick Grayson and Damian Wayne’s search for redemption.

By Brian Cronin COMIC LEGEND: EC Comics was told to change a black character to a white character or else violate the Comics Code. STATUS: True STATUS: True and 2 Comments At July 3, 2009, Comic Book Legends Revealed #214 wrote: here to read [...] At July 3, 2009, Chris Bloom wrote:

By Greg Burgas Shrapnel: Aristeia Rising #5 (of 5) by M. Zachary Sherman (writer), Bagus Hutomo (artist), Leos “Okita” Ng (colorist), and Sean Konot (letterer). $2.99, 42 pgs, FC, Radical Comics. Storming Paradise #6 (of 6) by Chuck Dixon (writer), Rick Burchett (penciller), Jackson Guice (inker), Wil...

By Brian Cronin Graham Nolan began working in comics for Eclipse in the mid-80s, but it was when he began working for DC Comics in the late 1980s that he really began to make a name for himself. Graham Nolan has a clean line and has always been a good story-teller. Back when he was working up ...

By Brian Cronin Barbara’s next big appearance was in Detective Comics #680, where Robin uses Oracle for information for the first time (that issue was written by Chuck Dixon, which is significant because, as you may know, once Dixon has decided to use a concept, he is committed to that concept for YEARS)....

By Brian Cronin A big drawback is that Chuck’s love interest, Nancy Woods, as I’ve written about in the past, is basically a blank slate, characterization-wise. However, that has not kept Chuck from being a good character himself. At May 11, 2009, Jeff Ryan wrote:

By Greg Burgas Atomic Robo: Shadow from Beyond Time #1 (of 5) (”Horror on Houston Street” with the back-up story “Once Upon a Time in Mexico”) by Brian Clevinger (writer), Scott Wegener (artist), Ronda Pattison (colorist), and Jeff Powell (letterer). Back-up story by Brian Clevinger (writer), Laure...