Year: Publication: Writer/Artist: Includes: Available on: May-Sept ’98Dark HorseFrank MillerWitchblade #125-130Amazon Synopsis: This book is loosely based on the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians; the battle is said to have inspired all of Greece to band together against the Persians, and helped usher […]
Review #035: Witchblade: War of the Witchblades
Year: Publication: Writer: Artist: Includes: Available on: Mar ’09-Aug ’10Top CowRon MarzStjepan Sejic, Marc Silvestri, Barbara Ciardo, Michael TurnerWitchblade #125-130Amazon Synopsis: Sara Pezzini and Danielle Bapiste are forced into battle forgetting their sisterhood; for the control of the artifact, Witchblade, split between the two when the former became pregnant with her daughter, Hope. And then […]
Review #034: Amazing Spider-Man Presents: Anti-Venom
Year: Publication: Writer: Artist: Includes: Available on: Nov ’09-Feb ’10MarvelZeb WellsPaulo SiqueiraAmazing Spider-Man: Anti-Venom #1-3Amazon Synopsis: What’s Black, White, and Dead all over?!?! Eddie is walking a thin line between darkness and light; and just when he thinks he had it all, things turn up messy with a girl’s life at stake. Enters the Punisher […]
Review #033: Venom vs. Carnage
Year: Publication: Writer: Artist: Includes: Available on: Sept-Dec ’04MarvelPeter MilliganClayton CrainVenom vs. Carnage #1-4Amazon Synopsis: Venom’s son Carnage is about to give birth to a new symbiote, asexually. This new kid is the 1000th symbiote in the line with its grandfather and father, with an agenda of their own — One disgusted by the birth process, […]
Review #032: JLA: Earth-2
Year: Publication: Writer: Artist: Includes: Available on: Jan ’99DCGrant MorrisonFrank QuitelyJLA: Earth-2Amazon Synopsis: The world’s gravest supervillains meet the world’s greatest superheroes, as realities collide. Here everything is about to be twisted; it is the Crime Syndicate of Amerika vs. the Justice League of America. Who will win!? AWEsomeness: An interesting plot with a rather unexpected […]
Review #031: Gotham City Sirens: Strange Fruit
Year: Publication: Writer: Artist: Includes: Available on: Feb ’17-Aug ’17DCTony Bedard, Peter Calloway, and Andres GuinaldoAndres Guinaldo Gotham City Sirens #14-19Amazon Synopsis: This volume brings two stories, one of Poison Ivy under the spell of a plant alien and the second one is where Batman’s lovers clash to maintain his identity after his presumed death in […]
Review #030: The Flash: The Kid Flash of Two Worlds
Year: Publication: Writer: Artist: Includes: Available on: Dec ’16DCJoshua WilliamsonIvan Plascencia, Joege Corona, Carmine Di GiandomenicoThe Flash #9Amazon Synopsis: This is a single-issue tale, where pre-crisis Wally West meets post-rebirth Wally West. In this the Flashes investigate the event that began in DC Universe: Rebirth. AWEsomeness: The plot is amazing, and the cover is a […]
Review #029: Superman and Batman vs. Aliens and Predator
Year: Publication: Writer: Artist: Includes: Available on: Jan ’07-Feb ‘07Dark Horse/DC ComicsMark SchultzAriel Olivetti#1-2Amazon Synopsis: A dormant volcano in the Andes Mountains harbors a deadly secret powerful enough to destroy the world. The world’s finest—Superman and Batman—find themselves in a terrible dilemma. It’s now up to them to save the world from the long-lost colony […]
Review #028: Aliens vs. Predator: Three World War
Year: Publication: Writer: Artist: Includes: Available on: Jan ’10-Nov ‘10Dark HorseRandy StradleyRick Leonardi#1-6Amazon Synopsis: The Predator race is one of the most dangerous and aggressive races of all. Centuries-old interstellar humanity is threatened by a long-lost Predator clan. Machiko Noguchi the only human who has ever spent time with the hunters might have her skills […]
Review #027: Werewolves on the Moon vs. Vampires
Year: Publication: Writer: Artist: Includes: Available on: Jun ’09-Aug ‘09Dark HorseDave Land, Fillbach BrothersFillbach Brothers#1-3Amazon Synopsis: During the full moon, the blood-curdling howl of the werewolves has pierced the night sky, but the power is addictive. The lust for unlimited power sends three werewolf friends, Ted, Jeff, and Stan to go to the moon and reign […]