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The Walking Dead #115 was the top-selling comic book of 2013. Despite all the turmoil, 2013 turned out to be a fantastic year for the ...

Star Wars #107 (Sept. 1986), the final issue of Marvel's original run of Star Wars comics. I really want Marvel to get Jo Duffy and ...

Original art for X-Men #141 by John Byrne and Terry Austin, as it appears in  Fantagraphics' The X-Men Chronicles II from 1982.  ...

Sons of Anarchy #1 * Lots of TV shows (of the prestigious variety!) have been making the jump into comics, with Boom! putting out a ver...

Hey, look! Random notes! For Christmas, I got a copy of that really big book 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking , by P...

I've been thinking about The Wolverine , which I caught at a morning screening — it's what you have to do when you have a toddler...

It's been a week, and I finally feel like I have recovered from my one day at San Diego Comic-Con . Visiting the show for the first ...

Just a few notes to pass the time while I try to find some time to read a few comics to write about here. I will be attending San Diego C...

Henry Cavill as Superman in Warner Bros.' Man of Steel . I pretty much only get to see movies I am writing about these days, so it...

It's interesting that X-Force , once the most laughably unnecessary re-launches in X-Men history, has become surprisingly fertile grou...

All-New X-Men #1 The most well-read post I ever put on this blog was one that went up Feb. 23, 2012, in which I talked about breaking m...

John Byrne is at his best when he’s doing science fiction. Take Next Men as the ultimate example. That series followed the old-school ru...

I’m not the biggest fan of crime comics — I like them, but am not compelled to read a whole lot of them with the notable exceptions of se...

Joe Casey is at his best when he’s experimenting. That’s why his explicitly subversive comics like Automatic Kafka and Butcher Baker s...

Another entry in the eco-thriller sub-genre is Great Pacific #1-6 (Image Comics, $2.99 each), from writer Joe Harris and artist Martin ...

The Massive #1-11 (Dark Horse Comics, $3.50 each) is a highly engrossing series that’s probably the best entry in the relatively new (to...

Happy! #1-4 (Image Comics, $2.99 each) is a creator-owned miniseries from Grant Morrison — his first in a long while after a very...

I’m a long-time Star Trek junkie. The original TV series became an instant favorite when I was 6 years old and it was shown each afternoon...

This is a good Star Wars comic book series, but not a great one. Star Wars #1 The good parts of Star Wars #1-3 (Dark Horse, $2.99 ea...

Wow, time sure flies when you’re too busy to read comics. What have I been doing? Well, I’ve got a toddler, a new puppy, I did a lot of in...

I get review copies, sometimes. Here's three from DC I read recently: Punk Rock Jesus #1 (DC/Vertigo) Punk Rock Jesus #1 is the ...