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Jesus is Never Coming Back, We All Understand That Right?

Anti #4

By Peter Calloway & Daniel Hillyard

12 Guage Comics

I've grown far tired reading stories about the second ...

The Best Deal in Comics...

Private Eye #2

by Brian K. Vaughn & Marcos Martin

I gave issue one a very favorable review a month...

Trying Not To Be Negative For The Sake Of It

Ten Grand #1

By JMS and Ben Templesmith

I'm a huge fan of Ben Templesmith's work but not so much of the writer J. Michael Strazincyski or JMS for short. I'm decidedly anta...

Didn't Mark Millar Already Do This Book...?

Jupiter's Legacy #1

By Mark Millar & Frank Quitely

This is basically The Authority, a book created by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch and then re-created and enlivened by Mark Millar an...

Seriously?! WTF Is This Shit?

Captain America #6

By Rick Remender, John Romita & Others

Marvel Comics

I love ridiculous comics. That kind of ridiculous comic for the sake of being ridiculous kind of comic. Fear Agent by Rick Remender, the writer of this comic, is a goo...

DC Comics Newest Adventure Hero is...

Constantine #2

By Ray Fawkes, Jeff Lemire, Renato Guedes and others

DC Comics

When DC cancelled the previous Hellblazer series starring John Constantine it was selling in the m...

Dark & Terrible? Not Yet, But I'm Sure We'll Get There

Abe Sapien: Dark & Terrible #1

By Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, Sebastian Fiumara & Dave Stewart

The Hellboy Universe is a favorite of mine. While I'm unable financially to pick up every comic that comes out in relation to it (Hellboy, BPRD and associated mini's) I have loved almost everything that I've been able to pick up. Abe Sapien: Dark &...

DC Comics Does Something Right in 2013

TIme Warp #1

By DC Comics

I love anthologies. I will sample any anthology that looks even somewhat decent because I love short stories. Yes, a lot of anthologies do end up sucking after awhile, especially ongoing ones because they need constant refill of materia...

Name Your Price Comics, This I Like!

PRIVATE EYE #1

By Brian K. Vaughn & Marcos Martin

Panelsyndicate.com is where you can get this comic. The...

Robots Are Fighting This Damn War!

SLEDGEHAMMER 44 #1

By Mike Mignola, John Arcudi & Jason LaTour

Dark Horse Comics

Robots, World War 2 and the Mignolaverse -- sounds like a fun comic to me. And it was, p...

Umm, Yeah. No... I Don't Know...

SEX #1

By Joe Casey & Piotr Kowalski

There's not a lot of story in this issue. Obviously it's a trade paperback kind of story, where you don't get a full story unless you've read about 5 or 6 issues. So while I hate to judge this kind of s...

Kim Thompson, Co-Publisher of the great Fantagraphics Books has been diagnosed with Lung Cancer. You can send emails of support to fbicomix@fantagraphics.com or flowers, comics, money, chocolates, etc to Fantagraphics headquarters in Seattle.

Kim is one of my favorite person...

Worst Comics of 2013:

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 0.1

By Brian Bendis, Steve McNiven and Marvel Comics

This will definitely make the list this year. This is the most flat, formulaic, weak and uncreative thing of Brian Bendis' that I've ever read (I haven't read everything). For a few years I enjoyed his work immensely, but of late have grown tired and bored by his work (see my review below of the new Powers comic for mo...

I only got around to reading three comics this week. They're listed in order that I liked the least.

NON-HUMANS #2

By Glenn Brunswick & Whilce Portacio

Image Comics

Oh god this was bad. I'm undecided on which was worse; the art or the story? Now I have not read a Whilce Portacio comic since I was a teenager, very early 90's, and I was never a fan of his work in the first place, but ...

The Best of the Week:

GIANTS BEWARE!

by Rafael Rosado & Jorge Aguirre

This was a 2012 release from First Second b...

The Best of the Week:)

There are two entries for this category this week. Yay.

WHY DO YOU CRY WHEN I'M ON TOP?

By Sam Saturday

Published by Northwest Press

This is a re...

I ask because my kid doesn't like comics anywhere near as much as me, I am now realizing. I think the only reason he even looks at them the little bit that he does is because I am constantly reading them and having them around. Yes he is only 8, but he's an excellent reader and very smart, loves superheroes, Star Wars and all the common comic book favorites, but he has very little interest in reading comics no matter how hard I try to pass my love of them onto him. He'll read books like Darth...

No "Best of..." or "Worst of..." this week because I recently watched Jamie Kennedy's 2007 documentary "HECKLER" wherein he rails about critics and wonders why they exist. It focused largely on critics of movies and particularly of Jamie Kennedy's career, but it still touched a nerve. It made me question and regret a little my reasons for wanting to be a comics critic.

The Best of the Week:

THE NAO OF BROWN

By Glynn Dillon

Published by Self-Made Hero

This came out in Ocotber of 2012, bu...

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic #1 released by IDW comics in November of last year outsold a number of well known comic book properties in that month.

Here's the somewhat official sales numbers for My Little Pony #1 gathered from ICv2.com's monthly sales charts.

My Little Pony (IDW)

11/2012: - My Little Pony #1 - 80,128

That's 80,128 copies sold to comic shops all over North America!

I...