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Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie, No. 78
Welcome to the first Confessions of 2012! I really meant to have this up two weeks ago, but life sometimes gets in the way of my writing “career” and this was one of those
Read More »Popdose at Kirkus Reviews: Favorite Thor Moments
Kirkus Reviews, founded in 1933, is a venerable institution in the media world. For more than 75 years, Kirkus has served as the industry bible for bookstore buyers, librarians, and ordinary readers alike. Now
Read More »Comics Review: “Fear Itself #1″
Fear Itself #1 supposedly reflects our real world fears only, you know, with costumed heroes and mythological gods running around as well. That “real worldness” of Marvel is supposedly what sets it apart from
Read More »Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie, No. 60
Welcome back to Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie, my little bully pulpit from which I cast aspersions on a choice selection of recent comics and graphic novel releases that most likely are on
Read More »Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie, No.57
Welcome to a overdue, mostly rushed, and special been-under-the-weather edition of Confessions, which will this week be made up of one longish and a bunch of shortish takes on various comics that I’ve read
Read More »Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie, No. 49
Hello, bonjour. bienvenue, konnichiwa (or konbanwa) and welcome to the latest in a series of review columns covering comics, graphic novels and other assorted effluvia of a graphic and/or sequential nature which I like
Read More »Comics Review: “The Invincible Iron Man — Stark: Disassembled”
There are two important questions you’ve got to ask yourself going into writer Matt Fraction and artist Salvador Larroca’s The Invincible Iron Man — Stark: Disassembled. 1) What are Tony Stark’s crimes and 2)
Read More »Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie, No. 7: Marvel’s “Girl Comics,” DC’s “First Wave,” and More
Here we go again with Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie, in which I attempt to spotlight several works of sequential graphic storytelling that I find noteworthy and think you might too, many of
Read More »Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie, No. 3: “Invincible Iron Man,” “Valentine,” and More
In which I continue to take a look at select bound-and-published sequential narratives of recent vintage, some of which may still be on sale in a comics shop, book store or online merchant near
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