Sixteen Individuals, Three Centuries, One Family

PREVIEW: Crogan’s March Oni Press is about to drop Crogan’s March, the second volume of The Crogan Adventures series of graphic novels.  Sporting a hardcover, black and white Sunday comics-styled frames, this book will run 216 pages for only $14.95.  Not a bad deal when 20 pages generally runs 4 bucks these days. Each book in the series will follow a member of the Crogan family tree. ... [Read more]

The updated pull list

A few months back Rick and Ray went through a purging of the pull list (chronicled in podcast episode #15). We knocked a bunch of titles off, but with The Siege, Pilot Season and a seemingly ever widening array of Batman comics, the list is gaining weight again. Are we missing anything? Here’s our latest: ABSOLUTION ALIENS ALL NEW SAVAGE SHE-HULK ARKHAM REBORN BATMAN BATMAN AND ROBIN BATMAN ANNUAL BATMAN... [Read more]

The sleeper hit of the New Year!

Stumptown #2 review Did you ever pick up a comic on a whim, not hearing any hype surrounding its release, and strike gold with your chance purchase? That’s what I did with Stumptown. Oh yeah, solid gold, baby. Dex is a private investigator and proprietor of Stumptown Investigations. Writer Greg Rucka creates a female character, both flawed and loveable. The series first arc The Case of the Girl... [Read more]

Not your momma’s werewolves

Tracker #2 review Writer Jonathan Lincoln and artist Francis Tsai unite to deliver one hell of frickin’ good comic. After a fine inaugural issue, I hoped that the series would continue to satisfy. Well, mission accomplished, boys. Alex O’Roark is the FBI’s top tracker and he loves his job (even more than his girlfriend). While tracking down a serial killer known as Herod, he survives “The Blue... [Read more]

Yippe-kie-yay with bellbottoms!

Die Hard: Year One #3 review I grew up with the Die Hard movies and loved every testosterone injected, unrealistic action-packed moment. When a buddy gave me the first three issue of Die Hard Year One, I turned up my nose. “What this hell is this”, I thought. How many more places can McClain get stuck in? An elevator, maybe? Oh, me of little faith. It’s a big world and there are plenty more binds... [Read more]

Bendis experiments with Spider-Woman

Spider-Woman #4 review We know that Brian Michael Bendis loves Jessica Drew, a.k.a Spider-Woman. He has been enthralled with her and is singlehandedly responsible for inserting her at the Marvel Universe’s epicenter with he role in Secret Invasion. Months ago, Bendis spoke with love and excitement as he announced his Spider-Woman series. Jessica Drew is a compelling character, raised by terrorists,... [Read more]

Punisher #11: FrankenCastle

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Jimmy in the Garden comics podcast episode #16

In this exciting episode: Jimmy goes to the movies Random girl names Ass whooping The Great Comicbook Quiz Jimmy reviews everything, but GI Joe Sleeper Season 1 graphic novel Is collecting dead? Beastiality and Garth Ennis Jimmy meets celebrities at Comic-Con Show notes: Legal documents – Jimmy discussed the legal documents he has filed in the Jack Dearing (c) section of Episode #14. 0.2 mile... [Read more]