Review: Green Lantern #20

This book is a celebration of everything that made Green Lantern arguably the most popular comic book character of the last decade. Green Lantern #20 is Geoff Johns’ final love letter to the character he made even the most hardened of skeptics fall in love with. What Johns created and achieved is the stuff of [...]

Picks of the Week: 5/22/13

The Green Team: Teen Trillionaires #1 This New 52 reboot of a cult-classic created by Joe Simon (co-creator of Captain America) and Jerry Grandenetti (known for working with Will Eisner on “The Spirit”) who both also created PREZ (true comic aficionados out there know what I am talking about).  This re-imagining is bound to be [...]

Picks of the Week: 5/15/13

Adventure Time: Playing With Fire OGN: Kaboom brings the first Adventure Time Original graphic novel, featuring fan favorite character FLAME PRINCESS! Witness her first adventure with Finn and Jake outside the flame kingdom. Girl made of fire walking around the forest, what could go wrong? Written by the creator of Girls with slingshots Danielle Corsetto [...]

Review: Batman #20

Batman #20 marks the end of “Nowhere Man”, the two-part Batman story featuring Clayface. To his credit, writer Scott Snyder has either cultivated new characters and/or reinvigorated old characters throughout his duration on Batman (including his stint on Detective Comics prior to the New 52). This approach has served him well. This is perhaps the [...]

Review: Ten Grand #1

J. Michael Straczynski joins forces with Ben Templesmith on this brand new series. And as indicated by this first issue, it is bound to be a good one. Straczynski’s Joe’s Comics and Image present Ten Grand, an occult-infused, noir narrative. This character-driven narrative solidifies emotion as a hallmark of Straczynski’s writing through the lens of [...]