Comic Picks – Week of 02/12/2015
Robin War #1 Tom King (w), Various (a) DC Comics Liz says: I’ve been excited for Robin War from the moment I saw it in Previews, for a number of reasons (Robin book,…
Robin War #1 Tom King (w), Various (a) DC Comics Liz says: I’ve been excited for Robin War from the moment I saw it in Previews, for a number of reasons (Robin book,…
Injustice: Gods Among Us Year Four Annual #1 Tom Taylor (w), Various (a) DC Comics Liz says: I wish every Justice League book were written by Tom Taylor (actually, I wish he wrote…
Alias Volume 3 TPB Brian Michael Bendis (w), Michael Gaydos (a) Marvel Comics Liz says: This week saw in the debut of Marvel’s latest Netflix original series, AKA Jessica Jones, and also the…
All-New, All-Different Avengers #1 Mark Waid (w), Adam Kubert, Mahmud Asrar (a) Marvel Comics Liz says: I think what I enjoyed most about the first issue of the new Avengers series is that…
Trashed TPB Derf Backderf (w), (a) Abrams Comicarts Liz says: Sometimes I get asked what my favourite autobiographical graphic novels are, and this happens: I say, ‘Well, there’s this one about a guy…
Batman War Games Book One TPB Various (w),(a) DC Comics Liz says: This long-out-of-print crossover from a golden period during the mid-noughties epitomizes everything I love about Batman stories. It’s a believable crime…
The Amazing Spider-Man #2 Dan Slott (w), Giuseppe Camuncoli (a) Marvel Comics Liz says: They say that the more things change, the more they stay the same. So, Dan Slott’s Spider-Man run is…
Batman Year 100 HC Paul Pope (w), (a) DC Comics Liz says: Dark, action-packed and as trippy as you’d expect, Paul Pope’s Batman Year 100 is set in a dystopian future (one hundred…
Batman & Robin Eternal #1 James Tynion IV & Scott Snyder (w), Tony Daniel (a) DC Comics Liz says: I’ve been binging on a bunch of late-nineties/early-noughties Bat-books and it’s made me nostalgic…
Step Aside, Pops Kate Beaton Jonathan Cape Liz says: Finally! The second collection of ‘Hark! A Vagrant’ is out, and I get to laugh myself into hysterics all over again. Cartoonist Kate Beaton’s…