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Eternals: To Slay a God Collects: Eternals #1-6 and Annual Writers: Charles Knauf, Daniel Knauf, Fred Van Lente, Jack Kirby Artists: Daniel Acuna, Pascal Alixe, Jack Kirby Marvel Comics Only slightly delayed due to NYCC! The works of Jack Kirby are among the most influential ever produced in the comic book industry. He created characters [...]

I was chatting with Chris Eckert and David Brothers about how a lot of villains in comics seem to have no plausible motivation for doing what they do. This seems pretty obvious; for every Dr. Doom, who has an overabundance of motivation, you have a Bullseye who is just CRAZY and HARDCORE. If you’ve listened [...]

Huntress: Year One collects Huntress: Year One #1-6 written by Ivory Madison art by Cliff Richards DC Comics DC’s Year One concept has become something of an institution lately, with everyone from Metamorpho to Two-Face to Green Arrow getting miniseries under its banner, complete with a “Year One” logo. Each series fleshes out the character’s [...]

Spider-Man: New Ways to Die collects Amazing Spider-Man #568-573 written by Dan Slott & Mark Waid art by John Romita Jr. & Adi Granov Marvel Comics Fair warning: This review contains some spoilers, but nothing that will really ruin your enjoyment of the story. Be forewarned. I’m in love with Harry Osborn. Not the Harry [...]

Spinning out of the events of Messiah Complex, X-Force follows a “black ops” team of X-Men, tasked with missions other mutant superheroes would find morally compromising. These missions invariably end up being incredibly violent, as X-Force is the sort of superhero team that doesn’t stick to the standard “no killing” type of heroics. The philosophy [...]

It’s a big week for known quantities at Marvel and DC, as their respective Summer Blockbusters stretch into sweaterweather. After last week’s Rogues’ Revenge and Legion of Three Worlds tie-ins, the fourth issue of the core Final Crisis title by Grant Morrison and JG Jones (and Carlo Pacheco, and Doug Mahnke… what up’s, Jonesy?) drops, [...]

Whether it’s Greg Rucka leaving Checkmate, John Rogers leaving Blue Beetle, Geoff Johns and Jeff Katz leaving Booster Gold, or Matt Fraction and Ed Brubaker leaving Iron Fist, nearly every comics fan has some loss to lament, and I haven’t even mentioned the numerous art changes that happen from month to month. In order to [...]

The Marvel Adventures imprint is Marvel’s latest attempt to get younger readers to start buying comics, something they don’t do very often these days. The books are set up as sort of an ancillary, less-edgy Ultimate imprint, with new, continuity-free takes on the characters everyone knows and loves, but above all, kid-friendly in content. The [...]

Written by Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction Drawn by David Aja Collects The Immortal Iron Fist 1 – 6. The Last Iron Fist Story is not about the Iron Fist, nor Danny Rand. Rand may be the protagonist but the story, and the series to date, is about the rich legacy of the Iron Fist [...]

Reprints: X-Men 130-131, Amazing Spider-Man 203, and Dazzler 1-21 Creative Teams include: Chris Claremont/John Byrne, Marv Wolfman/Keith Pollard, Tom DeFalco/John Romita Jr. and Frank Springer, and Danny Fingeroth/Frank Springer. Fingeroth/Springer are responsible for the bulk of the work in the TPB. Yes, they’ve printed an Essential volume staring Dazzler. Not a dream, not a hoax, [...]