Comic Reviews
What I bought – 8 February 2012
And I fervently believe that there will come a time when no one will be burned and no one beheaded; when the criminal will plead for death as a mercy and deliverance and death will be denied him, for life will serve as his punishment just as death does today; when there will be no [...]
Atomic Robo and the Ghost of Station X Does Everything Right
Atomic Robo and the Ghost of Station X #5 comes out this week, at the good shops, anyway, but I have had the blessed opportunity to read it before its dainty paper flesh can touch store shelves, and boy howdy, is it a doozy. I figured this would be a fine time to look back [...]
What “The War That Time Forgot” can teach us!
With the recent announcement that DC is re-launching a bunch of their war comics, including “The War That Time Forgot,” I thought I’d post this. I started this in 2008 and meant it to be a series of five, but they take a really long time to put together, and none of the other old-school [...]
Review time! with Gup #1
I basically took January off for reviewing some of the less mainstream stuff I might pick up, but now I’m back! This time, it’s more comics in the mail, which I always enjoy!
Trade paperbacks, older editions, and miscellaneous for January 2012
As I’m getting more and more things in trade these days and many of those don’t come out very quickly, I often miss titles that everyone is raving about for my year-end lists (see: Daredevil). So I’ve decided to do a post every month about the various trade paperbacks I got in the month. I’ve [...]
What I bought – 24 January and 1 February 2012
Despair and idleness are, I think, the chief motives for religious devotion. When we have nothing on earth to do or hope for we gaze at the sky. We kiss the holy ikons because we have nothing better to kiss. (Lawrence Durrell, from Pope Joan)
Greg Burgas’s Best Comics of 2011, by Greg Burgas
I think only two people will get the joke in the title, and I hope one of them has a sense of humor about it, but I’ve been waiting a long time to use something like this, so you’ll just have to indulge me!
Prophet #21 Review
Holy shit, Prophet #21 was nuts. Writer Brandon Graham and artists Simon Roy and Richard Ballerman delivered one of the most unusual and outlandish comic books I’ve seen in awhile as part of Image’s exciting new relaunch of Extreme Studios, taking old Rob Liefeld properties and re-inventing them entirely (while still maintaining the issue numbers [...]
What I bought – 18 January 2012
“I’ve always believed, Josef, that we are more in love with desire than with the desired!” (Irvin D. Yalom, from When Nietzsche Wept)
Dead Man’s Run #1 Review
Today marks the release of Dead Man’s Run #1, written by Greg Pak and drawn by Tony Parker and David Curiel. The series is about a prison that is literally Hell and the men who are aiming to make their escape from the prison. It’s a clever high concept and the series opens with quite [...]
What I bought – 11 January 2012
‘Once giants walked the earth,’ she repeated, emphatically. ‘Yes, titans absolutely, it’s a fact.’ Three mothers creaked and swung with expressions of fascinated absorption upon their smiling faces; but Raza Hyder took no notice, closed his eyes, grunted from time to time. ‘Now the pygmies have taken over, however,’ Bilquis confided. ‘Tiny personages. Ants. Once [...]
What I bought – 4 January 2012
It may, then, be said with truth that the Hebrews were the first to discover the meaning of history as the epiphany of God. (Mircea Eliade, from The Myth Of The Eternal Return)
My Top Ten Comics of 2011
Just for Greg Burgas, I waited until all the 2011 comics were finished being released. As always, it was another difficult year to narrow my favorite comics down to just ten. I think I’ll put up a quick selection of honorable mentions before I get into the top ten (and no ties for number ten [...]
What I bought – 28 December 2011
The Spartans were perfectly aware of the atrocious suffering they were inflicting and never imagined their victims could forget it. The solution was to establish terror as a normal condition of life — and that was Sparta’s great invention: to create a situation in which terror was seen as something normal. (Robert Calasso, from The [...]
Review time! with Doc Bizarre, M.D.
I’m surprised this isn’t an ongoing …
