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14  september     00h18
Review: DC K.O.: Justice League United trade paperback (DC Comics)
   Early in Mark Waid’s DC K.O.: Justice League Unlimited, there’s a reference to the various Suicide Squads. It’s an early indication...
10  september     02h38
Review: Batman and Robin Vol. 3: The Quiet Man trade paperback (DC Comics)
   In my review of Batman and Robin Vol. 2: The Gotham Cycle, I praised writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson for his range, which has taken us from...
07  september     02h56
Review: DC K.O: Superman trade paperback (DC Comics)
   Reading the DC K.O. event is not straightforward for trade fans.The DC K.O.: All Fight book collects the eight “All Fight Month” issues,...
03  september     03h18
Review: Aquaman Vol. 2: Justice League Blue trade paperback (DC Comics)
   It’s always fun to be in that period where a bunch of trades are tied-ins to a big DC event, when back in the day an event tie-in issue was...
31  august     02h30
Review: Absolute Superman Vol. 2: Son of the Demon hardcover paperback (DC Comics)
   Scott Snyder’s Absolute Batman Vol. 2 was a parade of grotesqueries, overlaying on Batman some of Snyder’s horror chops. Kelly...
29  august     03h08
Trade Perspectives: Death of Digital
   It’s hard now to evoke what a sea change it was, June 23, 2010. Dual articles by Laura Hudson on ComicsAlliance led with “The wait is...
27  august     00h02
Review: Superman: Action Comics Vol. 1: Boy of Steel trade paperback (DC Comics)
   Mark Waid’s Superman: Action Comics Vol. 1: Boy of Steel is pretty great. That’s high praise coming from me, an ardent Byrne Superman fan...
23  august     03h28
DC Trade Solicitations for November 2026 - Absolute Batman Vol. 1 Deluxe, Robin: Tim Drake Compendium Two, Supergirl and Superman Unlimited: Reign of the Superboys, Dark Nights: Death Metal Compendium, DC Next Level New Titans
   The DC Comics November 2026 trade paperback and hardcover solicitations finish up the DC Fall 2026 catalog with December’s New Titans, but the...
20  august     04h15
Review: Star Trek: Defiant Vol. 5: No Old Warriors hardcover (IDW)
   Star Trek: Defiant Vol. 5: No Old Warriors collects just four issues ahead of the “Lore War” crossover finale, though it sells for the...
17  august     02h49
Review: DC K.O. hardcover paperback (DC Comics)
   Absolute power corrupts absolutely … maybe?That’s the question that lies between two tensions in Scott Snyder’s DC K.O. There is on...
13  august     04h00
Millennium, Batgirl: Cassandra Cain, Amethyst, Supergirl by Peter David, Legends of the Dark Knight omnibuses, Absolute Deluxe editions, DC Next Level, Superman: Kingdom of Zod, Batman: Bad Seeds, more in DC Comics Spring 2027 solicitations
   I’m not going to say too much right here about the DC Comics Spring 2027 trade paperback and hardcover catalog solicitations, given we’re...
10  august     00h02
Review: Absolute Wonder Woman Vol. 2: As My Mothers Made Me hardcover paperback (DC Comics)
   Absolute Wonder Woman Vol. 2: As My Mothers Made Me is another fine entry in this award-winning series from Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman.As with...
06  august     02h23
Review: Nightwing Vol. 2: Death Traps hardcover paperback (DC Comics)
   Dan Watters’ Nightwing run is turning out to be so unusual, such a mishmash of genres and approaches, I’m not quite sure if it’s good yet...
03  august     02h40
Review: Poison Ivy Vol. 6: A Death in Marshview hardcover paperback (DC Comics)
   Sometimes horror isn’t mushroom spores sprouting from every inch of a human body. Sometimes horror is seven issues of dread, the slow...
30  july     02h29
Review: Batman Vol. 1: Daylight hardcover paperback (DC Comics)
   Matt Fraction’s Batman Vol. 1: Daylight is funny and weird and so, so cool. I’m not sure it always held together issue to issue, but then...
27  july     02h47
DC Trade Solicitations for October 2026 - Absolute Flash Vol. 3; Post-DC K.O. Flash, Harley Quinn, and Aquaman; DC Compact Batman and Superman Adventures; Legion by Waid Omnibus; Wonder Woman: Dead Earth: Absolute Edition
   With the DC Comics October 2026 trade paperback and hardcover solicitations, we’re about at the end of the books listed in DC’s fall 2026...
23  july     01h44
Review: Green Lantern: The Starbreaker Supremacy trade paperback (DC Comics)
   Green Lantern: The Starbreaker Supremacy is fine as far as Green Lantern events go. It is even perhaps refreshing that there are no great changes or...
20  july     01h15
Review: Batman and Robin Vol. 2: The Gotham Cycle trade paperback (DC Comics)
   Though Batman and Robin Vol. 2: The Gotham Cycle is the second of Phillip Kennedy Johnson’s three volumes on the title, it brings to a close...
16  july     02h33
Review: Star Trek Vol. 5: When the Walls Fell trade paperback (IDW)
   With Star Trek Vol. 5: When the Walls Fell, it seems writers Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzig are getting a little punchy. It’s the final...
13  july     00h02
Review: Batman: The Adventures Continue Season Three trade paperback (DC Comics)
   Guest reviewer Zach King writes about movies at The Cinema King and about comics on Instagram at Dr. King’s Comics.]When I reviewed the fourth volume...
09  july     02h48
Review: Wonder Woman Vol. 4: The Island of Mice and Men trade paperback (DC Comics)
   Tom King’s Wonder Woman Vol. 4: The Island of Mice and Men is a seven-part epic among a nine-issue collection, yet another masterpiece from...
08  july     00h02
Review: Star Trek: Defiant Vol. 4: The Stars of Home hardcover (IDW)
   Almost at the end, it seems certain Christopher Cantwell’s Star Trek: Defiant never found its direction. After a single promising volume of the...
06  july     02h47
Review: Green Arrow Vol. 5: Crimson Sands trade paperback (DC Comics)
   The worst part about Chris Condon’s Green Arrow run is that there isn’t more of it.Green Arrow Vol. 5: Crimson Sands isn’t perfect,...
02  july     02h40
Review: Birds of Prey Vol. 4: On the Run trade paperback (DC Comics)
   I’ve spent most of my life reading comics, and I’ve come around to the idea that the success or failure of a comic depends in each...
01  july     00h02
Review: Star Trek Vol. 4: Pleroma trade paperback (IDW)
   I happened to be reading Star Trek Vol. 4: Pleroma, which deals not a little with Benjamin Sisko’s past and future, at the same time as I...
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