I wrote a kinda sorta review of Batman: Their Dark Designs kinda sorta reviews being my specialty at EDILW in the previous post, but I had a lot more to say about it than I had room to do so in that particular format. Although I can’t say I had a lot more of any real worth to say about it, as...

BOUGHT:Batman: Knight Out (DC Comics) It can be extremely sad to consider the career of writer Chuck Dixon these days, as his bibliography includes such recent embarrassments as Clinton Cash: The Graphic Novel, one of those goofy Zenescope miniseries that seem to mainly be excuses to publish...

I would have to go spend some significant amount of time goin back and poring over solicitations for years past to know with any real certainty, but is certainly seems to me that Marvel’s King In Black crossover event is bigger than any of their more recent, similar crossover events. At least, I...

DC enters yet another new era in March, this one branded Infinite Frontier, echoing both the number of Earth’s in the original DC Multiverse (before it’s first official rejiggering in 1986’s Crisis On Infinite Earths) and the title of Darwyn Cooke’s 1960s-set The New Frontier exploration of DC’s...

DC Comics’ Underworld Unleashed was a 1995 crossover event series by writer Mark Waid, artist Howard Porter and inkers Dan Green and Dennis Janke. Though their main series was just three issues, a huge swathe of the publisher’s titles tied in to the event, which ultimately took over almost 50...

Before taking over Detective Comics in 2021, Mariko Tamaki wrote prose novels Cover Me, Fake ID and Saving Montgomery Sole and four Lumberjanes prose novel spin-offs; wrote original graphic novels for mainstream audiences Skim (Groundwood Books; 2008), This One Summer (First...

BOUGHT:Batman: The Dark Knight Detective Vol. 3 (DC Comics) This volume contains Detective Comics #592-600, eight issues from 1989 that include a nice chunk of the Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle run on the character (often with inker Steve Mitchell and co-writer John Wagner) and the novel-length,...

Marvel’s King In Black events keeps on...King In Black-ing, I guess, with 18 new installments of varying degrees of importance scheduled for February of next year. That’s less than half of the 54 new, original comic book-comics that Marvel will be publishing that month, but man, that’s still a lot,...

BOUGHT:Detective Comics #1027 (DC Comics) To celebrate the 1,000th consecutive issue of Detective Comics to star Batman and ignoring the time in 2011 when DC reset the dial on the book back to #1 before eventually resuming the original numbering this issue of the publisher’s namesake title has been...

BOUGHT:The Harrowing of Hell (Iron Circus Comics) I’ve been fascinated by the story of the harrowing of Hell ever since I first heard of it. Cartoonist Evan Dahm mentions in his brief afterword that he grew up reciting a version of the story in church, in a few vague snippets of the Apostle’s...

Yikes, is it that time of the month again already? Apparently so. February of 2021 will look an awful lot like January of 2021 at DC Comics, as the Future State event continues. Some of the miniseries that began in January will continue into February, and there’s at least one new one-shot. It’s all...

Well, if you’re not interested in Marvel’s Donny Cates-spearheaded King In Black event, then you might have some trouble finding something to read from Marvel in January. If I counted correctly and there’s no reason to believe I did the event accounts for 14 of their 70 or so comics release for...

Well it looks like DC has finally decided to pull the trigger on that 5G fifth-generation related initiative that had been teased for what feels like forever no, the one that would include a theoretical new generation of superheroes, with Luke Fox as a new Batman in comics written by John Ridley...

Before I cracked the cover of Pénélope Bagieu’s new graphic novel adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Witches, the image I was most curious to see was how she would decide to depict the character of The Grand High Witch. Dahl’s prose description of the book basically makes her sound like she...

BOUGHT:Daphne Byrne #6 (DC Comics) The final issue of this Joe Hill Presents Hill House Comics miniseries concludes writer Laura Marks and artist Kelley Jones’ weird 19th century drama surrounding a strange adolescent girl, her widowed mother and a cult of devil-worshippers using an old time-y...

When it was originally set for release in April of this year, Derf Backderf’s Kent State: Four Dead In Ohio was a substantial work of comics journalism and history, told as a suspenseful, even gripping narrative detailing the three days leading up to the 1970 massacre of four students on an...

Marvel’s December brings a quite sizable event series, spinning out of writer Donny Cates’ previous Venom stories: The King In Black, which will bring an evil god of symbiotes and his army of symbiote-possessed dragons to Earth, presumably for the purposes of conquering it. While the specificity...

December will bring the conclusion of the seven-part Dark Nights: Death Metal event series, and its seemingly endless string of one-shot tie-ins. While the sixth and seventh issues of the main series ship in December, so to do a trio of books that sound like they are meant to be epilogues and or...

Batman Annual #17 (DC Comics) If your first thought upon seeing this cover was that it doesn’t quite seem like it fits in with the rest of the comics in this post, well, you are correct. Despite the fact that I bought this during one of my trips to the local comic shop during the month of June,...

Sholly Fisch and Marcelo DiChiara send the Teen Titans to Camp Apokolips in their original graphic novel, Teen Titans Go To Camp , which offers a good enough excuse to play with Jack Kirby’s Fourth World characters, embedding them into the absurdly silly, crazy-paced milieu of the Teen Titans Go ...

Based solely on what the two biggest publishing companies in the North American direct market have solicited for the month of November, Marvel Entertainment’s comics line seems a lot healthier than DC’s...or, at least, they have far more books of various types, they have far fewer cancellations and...

Behind the scenes, things seem more than a little chaotic at DC Comics these days (the word bloodbath has been used in reference to the recent wave of layoffs), and, if you look at what they plan to ship in November, well, it’s not exactly the deepest, widest, most diverse or most robust slate of...

Okay, remember in the last post about Marvel’s solicitations, when I said that while X of Swords looked like a fairly large crossover, it wasn’t as large as it could be, given that a handful of X-Men titles weren’t participating that month, and maybe that would change the following month? Well,...

Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s Death Metal sequel, Dark Nights: Death Metal will reach its halfway point in October, and it is a positively sprawling event. In addition to the fourth issue of the seven-issue main series, there are two more one-shots solicited for this month Dark Nights: Death...

Recently I noticed that DC Comics released their October 2020 solicitations, which reminded me that I had yet to see Marvel’s September solicitations, and then I had to go looking for them. Guys, I am getting really bad at staying on top of these things I’m not sure what it is. Perhaps it’s a...