DMZ Vol. 6: Blood in the Game
March 22, 2009 2:40 amBy Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli Brian Wood writes flawed protagonists whose arcs often involve becoming less selfish, more adult.... View Article
Category: 52 Books/52 Weeks
Pluto Vol. 1, by Naoki Urasawa
March 20, 2009 2:19 amManga master Urasawa does something interesting here: takes Osamu Tezuka’s famous Astro Boy characters and concept and reinvents them in... View Article
In the Flesh, by Koren Shadmi
March 18, 2009 2:28 amThis collection of horror-tinged short comics frustrates. Some of the concepts are great – a man courts a decapitated woman;... View Article
Absolute Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
March 11, 2009 2:31 amMy third reading of this masterwork, inspired by, and completed before, my viewing of the film. This edition ?oversized, recolored,... View Article
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The Universe, by Bryan Lee O’Malley
March 9, 2009 2:18 amOne of my favorite things about this charming, funny series has been its interactivity: when the characters play in a... View Article
The Books of Blood, Vol. 3, by Clive Barker
February 28, 2009 3:41 pmThese little Berkley editions, purchased in my early teens, are weird things: Barker intended a single volume, not three low-cost... View Article
Swallow Me Whole, by Nate Powell
February 20, 2009 8:25 pmThe first book in nearly 100 that made me want to break the 52-word limit. I could write hundreds of... View Article
Books of Blood, Vol. 2, by Clive Barker
February 12, 2009 6:07 pmThe second volume of horror stories reminds me of an important horror tenet: truly monumental, outsized horror must often inspire... View Article
Invisible People, by Will Eisner
February 2, 2009 6:33 pmAnother collection of short character studies, each story focuses on a person living in New York who has allowed themselves... View Article
The Books of Blood, Vol. 1, by Clive Barker
January 27, 2009 5:41 pmI first read these stories in my early teens; coming back to them reveals the relative rawness of Barker’s craft... View Article