Year: Publication: Writer:Artist: Includes: Available on: Jun ’08-Nov ’09MarvelFrank MillarSteve McNivenWolverine #66-72, Wolverine: Old Man Logan Giant-SizeAmazon Synopsis: The night evil triumphed, everything changed for Wolverine. After 50 years in a dystopian future, the old man Logan is living a quiet life until an old friend, old man Hawkeye, shows up, asking a favor. Here, […]
Review #040: Time & Vine #1
Year: Publication: Writer/Artist: Includes: Available on: Jul ’17IDWThom ZahlerIssue #1Amazon Synopsis: A middle-aged school history teacher, looking for a break, finds an amazing one with the owner of a local winery. Together, they set off to explore a time lost in history! AWEsomeness: The plot/art is a short and sweet story. It tells about the […]
Review #039: Death Note (Short Stories)
Year: Publication: Writer: Artist: Includes:Available on: May ’22Viz MediaTsugumi OhbaTakeshi Obata6 short stories, including one 4-panel comicAmazon Synopsis: Is Kira’s story truly over, or does his influence linger? Death Note’s story continues in this collection of short stories penned by the series’ creators. Find out what happens next!? AWEsomeness: The art is awesome, and so […]
Review #038: Superman/Batman: Protégé
Year: Publication: Writer: Artist: Includes: Available on: ’04DC Jeph LoebPat Lee#7Amazon Synopsis: Superboy and Robin are tasked by their mentors to recruit someone for the heroes. But in the process, they face Metallo. AWEsomeness: The plot was good and just a filler, and the manga-inspired art felt a tad hard in some places. My Review: […]
Review #037: Bruce Wayne: Not Super
Year: Publication: Writer:Artist: Includes: Available on: Mar ’23DCStuart GibbsBerat PekmezciSingle digestAmazon Synopsis: 13-year-old Bruce Wayne attends an exclusive prep school for kids with powers, but Bruce lacks any. He has a goal: Make a difference in the world. The challenge comes when he crosses paths with Jack Napier and his hired bully Bane. Bruce decides […]
Review #036: 300
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 Baptiste 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 […]