web stats

2009 December

A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 353

Here is the latest cool comic book moment in our year-long look at one cool comic book moment a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the moments posted so far! Let’s take a look at the return of the Fourth Man in Planetary #12…

Continue Reading »

2009 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar

Remember, each day, click on that day’s door to see what Christmas comic strip from a notable comic strip is featured for that day (you can also continue to look at previous day’s cartoons – by the by, depending on the size of your monitor, the strip might be reduced to fit your screen), all [...]

Continue Reading »

Manga Before Flowers — Best of ’09 lists!

Although I feel I can’t do a top ten list of manga from 2009 until I read a few things (GoGo Monster and Red Snow are the titles that spring to my mind instantly), the truth is even if I read those books my top three will probably remain the same — Ooku: The Inner [...]

Continue Reading »

A review a day: Luna Park

It’s a Vertigo book! How couldn’t it be good?????

Continue Reading »

Time to stand up and be counted!

I didn’t vote in the Top 100 Storylines List, because I have trouble thinking in terms of “storylines” and instead think in terms of “runs.” I love Morrison’s Doom Patrol and Ennis’ Hitman, but I have trouble singling out a storyline from them. And I’m sure I would have forgotten something I love, because that’s [...]

Continue Reading »

My Top Ten Comics Storylines

Here are my top ten comics storylines, as voted on by me, the only reader whose opinion matters. (Except in actually getting books into the top one hundred…)

Continue Reading »

A Year of Cool Comics – Day 353

Here is the latest in our year-long look at one cool comic (whether it be a self-contained work, an ongoing comic or a run on a long-running title that featured multiple creative teams on it over the years) a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the comics posted so far! We [...]

Continue Reading »

Another Friday In The Mailroom

One of the minor pleasures of this weekly column gig is that I get all kinds of interesting mail. I try to answer everything, and once in a while I get something that’s worth sharing here. We have a few of those this week… some updates, some Batman, some Doc Savage, some answers to frequently-asked [...]

Continue Reading »

A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 352

Here is the latest cool comic book moment in our year-long look at one cool comic book moment a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the moments posted so far! Two months later, let’s finish the cool moments from Hellblazer #71, by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon!

Continue Reading »

2009 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar

Remember, each day, click on that day’s door to see what Christmas comic strip from a notable comic strip is featured for that day (you can also continue to look at previous day’s cartoons – by the by, depending on the size of your monitor, the strip might be reduced to fit your screen), all [...]

Continue Reading »

My Top Ten Comics of 2009

A whole lot of great comics came out in 2009, making it very difficult for me to narrow it down to my top ten. The amazing talent that did NOT make the list is, well, amazing. Garth Ennis, JW Cotter, Ed Brubaker, Alan Moore, Darwyn Cooke – some of my absolute favorite writers and they [...]

Continue Reading »

Top 100 Comic Book Storylines #2 and 1

Here are the last two storylines on the countdown, as voted on by you, the readers!! Here is the master list of all storylines featured so far.

Continue Reading »

A review a day: Insomnia Café

I have an odd story about this book … below the cut!!!!

Continue Reading »

A Year of Cool Comics – Day 352

Here is the latest in our year-long look at one cool comic (whether it be a self-contained work, an ongoing comic or a run on a long-running title that featured multiple creative teams on it over the years) a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the comics posted so far! We [...]

Continue Reading »

Comic Book Legends Revealed #238

Welcome to the two-hundred and thirty-eighth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Click here for an archive of the previous two hundred and thirty-seven. Comic Book Legends Revealed is now part of the larger Legends Revealed series, where I look into legends about the worlds [...]

Continue Reading »

Categories

Review Copies

Comics Should Be Good accepts review copies. Anything sent to us will (for better or for worse) end up reviewed on the blog. See where to send the review copies.

Browse the Archives