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100 Bullets started in 1999 and ran for 100 issues before ending in 2009. I picked up the series maybe in the early 2000s but the plot was so heavy serialised that I dropped it and picked up the trade paperbacks (collected editions), and recently sat down and read the story front to back in [...]

I’m re-reading the brilliant 100 Bullets comic book series from issue 1 to issue 100 (the full run) and it is really blowing me away. One of the best comic book series out there and I highly recommend it to anyone who was impressed by previous greats like Sandman.
One cool panel sequence in particular stood [...]

Back when I was still actively collecting comics, Kick-Ass exploded onto the scene in 2008 written by Mark Millar and drawn by one of my favourite artists, John Romita Jr. The cover promised “Sickening violence! Just the way you like it!” and boy did it deliver. As comics by Mark Millar sometimes do, the series [...]

I did pretty well in 2009 with 28 books and 93 graphic novels.
Best book of the year was hands down Rant by Chuck Palahniuk, other worthy mentions include Death Star, the Horus Heresy, the Star Wars Legacy series and The Dip by Seth Godin.
On the graphic novel front, Avengers: The Initiative is a great book, [...]

If all things go as planned, tomorrow the girlfriend and I will catch X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and I’ve decided in advance I will leave my utter dislike for Wolverine as a character at the door (though I think Hugh Jackman makes a good Wolverine), and I will clear my mind of all the glaring continuity [...]

I haven’t been a Thor fan in awhile. Although I will say I like him as a character (c’mon, what’s not to like about a Thunder God with a hugeass hammer yelling “HAVE AT THEE” and smashing everything in comic books!), I’ve just never been able to relate to him. He’s the big gun that [...]

I’ve been hearing about Jamie McKelvie’s work for awhile now, namely Suburban Glamour and Phonogram. Having flipped through Phonogram previously, let me start this review off by saying all of Jamie McKelvie’s work should be in full colour, because it is freaking gorgeous.
So here’s the short story: Astrid (the girl on the cover) is actually [...]

Comic book fans will be hard pressed not to notice the return of Barry Allen as the Flash, after a 24 year absence since the original Crisis On Infinite Earths back in 1985. Just like they brought back Hal Jordan as Green Lantern, Barry is returning in a mini series called “Flash: Rebirth”, which has [...]

A couple of weekends ago I sat down and read my backlog on Ex Machina graphic novels: Smoke, Smoke (vol.5), Power Down (vol.6) and Ex Cathedra (vol.7). Some background: Mitchell Hundred was caught in an explosion and got the “superpower” to speak to machines and went by the name The Great Machine. After he used [...]

After a slow start with Last Son and a stronger arc with Escape From Bizarro World, Geoff Johns and Gary Frank unite to metaphorically blow my mind with Superman and the Legion Of Super-Heroes. A cocktail of my love for team books, a fond affection for the Legion of Super-Heroes, Geoff John’s masterful understanding of [...]