Return to Gotham Central!
I enjoyed the first 28 issues of Gotham Central so much that I couldn’t stop, and had to finish the 40 issue series. I really love this series. I’m not going to give any storylines or plot twists away because…
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Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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Gotham Central
Now I am venturing way out of the Silver Age on this post! I reread the first 28 issues of 2003’s Gotham Central over the last week, and what a great read it was. The series is written by Brubaker…
Ed Brubaker
52 weeks. 52 different writers. 2 trade paperbacks or hardcovers a week. Each week I’ll take a look at a different writer and read two different collected editions from within that person’s repertoire to help in the examination of their…
You Want 2nds? – The Fade Out #2
Hi folks, welcome to ARCHIE G’s. I’m your waiter, Raoul. Here at ARCHIE G’s, we don’t think you can make a dependable Pull List decision based on the first serving of a comic. Publishers throw everything they’ve got at a…
Review: Velvet Vol 1
The main character Velvet is a wonderful subversion of the expected spy genre. Brubaker and Epting ask the question "what if Miss Moneypenny were a spy?" and the result is a robust, complex story.
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Velvet #1
I love spy stories. There’s that element of mystery, intrigue, danger and sex appeal that just grabs me and won’t let go. I’ll kick back and watch countless hours of James Bond, Mission Impossible, Burn Notice or Archer to satisfy…
Review | Scene Of The Crime
A new edition from Image provides an opportunity to enjoy an early work from Brubaker, Lark and Phillips. From the co-creators of Gotham Central and FATALE comes a lost crime noir masterpiece. Long out of print, and presented here for…
Creator Owned?
Do the big 2 need to provide a solid creator owned platform for their regular talent? Or is it better that Marvel and DC maintain a primary mind-set of “Our property, edited our way.”? allowing the second tier publishers…
Avengers vs. X-Men #10
Avengers vs. X-Men, the high-octane superhero romp featuring the X-Men and the Avengers continued last week with its tenth issue. The Hope centric plot plodded onward, bringing the expansive mini-series ever closer to its conclusion.
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Does Marvel Now! Cause Sales To Go Down?
We all know that rebooting a series or creating a “new jumping on point” causes sales to increase, albeit in some cases temporarily, but I often wonder what this does to the sales of a title before the relaunch. Comic…
Review | Fatale Book One: Death Chases Me
This is one of the few comics I had trouble waiting on the collected edition: a new book from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips is reason enough to pick it up, and having just consumed Fatale Book One: Death Chases…
Avengers vs. X-Men #5
In the fifth installment of Avengers vs. X-Men, the highly anticipated mini-series featuring Marvel's mutants and resident team of Avengers, the pace definitively picks up as tensions come to a head between the two teams vying for their personal stakes in Hope's destiny. However, despite an epic-scoped story, the collective of Marvel architects fail to capitalize on the story's potential with a lackluster fifth outing which explodes the X-Men mythos with a barrage of head scratching developments.
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Captain America By Ed Brubaker Vol 2
Having sworn off superhero comics I couldn’t help picking up this double dose of personal favourites: Captain America and Alan Davis. Cap struggles to find his faith when the new Hydra rises from the ashes and makes its first deadly…
Avengers vs. X-Men #1
Similarly to film, summers tend to lend themselves to huge blockbuster story lines in comics. With seven years of planning behind it, Marvel's 2012 foray pits the Avengers against the X-Men. The Hope-centric plot brings together the world's greatest heroes and places them on opposing sides; one fights to save the world, the other to preserve its very existence.
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Episode 12: I object! (to Mark Waid’s ‘Daredevil’)
Last week I saw something truly heinous, truly unseemly, truly asinine: "Daredevil is Marvel's best new comic series of 2011."
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Marvel Fear Itself Panel
Fan Expo in Toronto this Friday afternoon was the place for Marvel Comic’s hints and teasers, as the Marvel: Fear Itself panel dropped talked superheroes and what fans can expect in the coming months from Fear Itself and upcoming spin-off…
Daredevil #1
Coming off the worst stretch of his life, Matt Murdock left New York and travelled cross-country to find himself. After a brief stay in New Mexico, Murdock rediscovered his nature after helping a small town overcome its problem with some aggressive locals. Upon returning to New York though, Murdock must face the consequences of his actions.
Read MoreSuddenly/Meanwhile | A Better Tomorrow
Peter talks about DC's recently announced Retroactive mini-series, Warren Ellis' Secret Avengers, wonders where David Aja is at and spotlights up and coming talent Zac Gorman!
Read MoreSuddenly/Maybe… | I’m Full of Questions
Pete talks about his biggest shame as a Paul Pope fan, his love of Brian McLachlan, showcases Derek Charm's Hanna Barbera Seven Soldiers and babbles about Audrey Hepburn's body type. (It. Gets. Weird.)
Read MoreCBD’s 52Q | #21: “Which comic book property should be on the Small Screen?”
Every week CBD’s Editor in Chief Pete DeCourcy asks the question and the crew (and special guests) give their answers, we’ll be doing this for 52 weeks. This week we ask: "Which comic book property should be on the Small Screen?"
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