Batman: The Man Who Laughs (Ed Brubaker and Doug Mahnke) and Detective Comics #784–786 (Ed Brubaker and Patrick Zircher) This is a very strange collection – The Man Who Laughs is a one-off special, and is interesting and well executed, with a good story about the early Joker getting revenge…
I like the work of Ed Brubaker. I enjoyed reading the X-Men books growing up. Brubaker has written some X-Men stories. Therefore, I decided to read them. That makes sense, doesn't it? Let's have a look (with thanks to the library for providing all the TPBs). Uncanny X-Men: Rise and…
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…
Captain America #1‒7 by Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting, Michael Lark and John Paul Leon I have read some Captain America comics in my time, as well as comics with Cap as a central character in a team, but I've never really connected with the character. For this reason, I didn't…
X-Men: Deadly Genesis #1–6 by Ed Brubaker and Trevor Hairsine The continual nature of superhero comic books requires the necessity of the retcon to introduce new elements to the otherwise static nature of the narrative. In the early days, continuity wasn’t a big deal; it was the development of the…
Criminal #1–5 by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips Crime comics have always worked well – this could be the fact that superhero comics are based on the whole ‘fighting crime’ concept, I don’t know. There has been a good ratio of quality to noise in the pure crime comics, even…
Daredevil: The Devil, Inside and Out TPB #1 by Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark ‘The Devil in Cell-Block D’ Carrying on from Bendis and Maleev's run on Daredevil would be a challenge: Matt Murdoch has been outed as Daredevil and put in prison. Where do you go from there? Ed…