Batman #667–669, 672–675 by Grant Morrison, JH Williams III, Tony S Daniel In the parlance of football commentary, this book is a game of two halves – one of quality and wit and imagination, the other is overblown and silly and lacking in art. While all comes from the imagination…
The Final Solution by Michael Chabon When I was an impressionable youngster, BBC2 showed the Basil Rathbone-starring Sherlock Holmes films on Friday at 6pm – thus began my attachment to one of the five most well-known fictional characters. My favourite personification of Holmes was Jeremy Brett, which meant I had…
Collecting Countdown To Infinite Crisis, The OMAC Project #1–6, Wonder Woman #219 by Greg Rucka, Jesus Saiz and Cliff Richards Rucka is a greater writer of espionage/political thrillers – you will know this if you've read Queen & Country – so I wanted to read this series, despite it being…
Jack Of Fables #6–11 by Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Tony Akins and Steve Leialoha I told you I had been reading a lot of books from the library over the Christmas holiday ... After reading the first trade, I wasn't that interested in reading any more of the story –…
Deathblow #1–9 by Brian Azzarello and Carlos D'Anda This is a logic extrapolation: 100 Bullets is really good. Azzarello writes 100 Bullets. Ergo, Azzarello writes good comic books (that are not just 100 Bullets). Even though I was seriously underwhelmed by his Superman: For Tomorrow [my review], and I had…
The Brave and the Bold: The Lords of Luck (issues 1–6) and The Book of Destiny (issues 7–12) by Mark Waid, George Perez and Jerry Ordway I like the idea of The Brave and the Bold – a book about superhero team-ups; you can have many different characters (rather than…
Issues #1–5 by Greg Rucka and various artists Renee Montoya is a great character – going from a character created for Batman: The Animated Series, to being a Gotham police officer in DC comics, to being one of the central characters in the excellent Gotham Central, being outed as a…
[Full title: Ultimate Hulk Vs. Ultimate Iron Man: Ultimate Human] issues #1–4 by Warren Ellis and Cary Nord Ellis seems to have a free remit to write more or less what he wants for Marvel, especially the Ultimate universe (his run on Ultimate Fantastic Four, the Gah-lak-tus trilogy) – all…
The Dead Boy Detectives #1–4 by Ed Brubaker, Bryan Talbot & Steve Leialoha I've been reading a lot of books from the library over the Christmas period, so expect me to share my thoughts with you on a range of different collections. This first trade paperback is something I didn't…
Captain America #25–30 by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting & Mike Perkins The media frenzy and the blip in interest in comic book shops (how many reprints of issue 25 were there?) caused by the death of Captain America was astounding. (There is a nice little summary of what is…