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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 [...]

Finally reading the very, very awesome “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” graphic novel with brilliant illustrations by Skottie Young. I think what makes this book work is they literally stuck to the source material by L. Frank Baum and lovingly translated that to the graphic novel and the results are clear.
Some context: The Tin Woodsman [...]

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 [...]

It’s not often I read a graphic novel that is wildly different from the vast majority out there. Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse is one of those graphic novels partially due to the fact that Ben Templesmith’s art is so distinctive, but also because the main character is a worm that inhabits a corpse. Yes, you read [...]

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, [...]

So Kinokuniya is having another 20% members-only sale, and that means money flies out of my wallet like there’s no tomorrow because I’ve stopped buying comics in single issue format, and buy the collected editions (graphic novels) instead. Here’s a quick overview of four of the nine graphic novels (GNs) I bought tonight:
Fallen Angel vol.4 [...]

That’s MODOK. It stands for Mobile Organism Designed Only for Killing. He’s been somewhat of a joke in the past. I mean, c’mon, he’s a floating head on a chair! But in Super-Villain Team-Up, MODOK’s 11, he’s shown to be pretty smart as well, and deservedly shares the name of one of the smartest movies [...]

I finally got down to buying the final two volumes of The Exterminators by Simon Oliver and Tony Moore, and once I started, I couldn’t put them down until I was done.
The story starts simply. Henry James joins Bug Bee Gone, a pest extermination company, where he has all sorts of weird experiences with the [...]

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 [...]