Lucifer’s Garden of Verses: The Devil on Fever StreetBy Lance Tooks (NBM/ComicsLit, 2004; $8.95)
The beauty of graphic novels is that, in the right publisher’s hands, they don’t suffer from the temporal existence of their periodical counterparts, most of which often come and go, completely unnoticed, in the whirlwind of a particular months’ issue of Previews. [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2006
Happy Holidays from CBC
24-Dec-06Best wishes to all for a happy holiday season and a blessed new year. Be sure to take a minute from your own festivities to wish the same for our soldiers abroad…
Thanks to Dave Carter of Yet Another Comics Blog for the downbeat but appropriate cover idea, the February 1992 issue of Sgt. Rock, [...]
Quesada on DC Becoming Marvel
23-Dec-06From NEW JOE FRIDAYS WEEK 27:
“There’s a reason Batman is the greatest DC hero, he’s the closest to the Marvel formula, but the rest of the DC universe I feel suffers from the same flaws as Superman. In his time, Superman spoke of the immigrant experience which was very important in America at the time, [...]
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Part I featured a look at Marvel, DC, Image and Dark Horse’s offerings for March 2007, and now Part II casts the spotlight on the most interesting books being solicited by “independent” publishers. Links to full solicitations from almost every publisher can be found at MillarWorld.
[NOTE: Not all [...]
Two Cents: Lightning Round
22-Dec-06We’re heading down to Virginia for the holidays and I’m planning to post a bunch of TPB reviews throughout next week — in between catching up on sleep and movies — including Stagger Lee; American Born Chinese; Opening Lines, Pinky Probes, and L-Bombs, and a few others. Oh, and I haven’t forgotten about the holiday [...]



