Assassinations. Breaking headlines. Courtroom battles. A frightened child reaching out with crude drawings. This is just a day in the life for Matt Murdock, sometimes better known as the defender of Hell’s Kitchen, Daredevil.
Before writer Brian Michael Bendis was tearing up the charts with his Avengers books, he was doing critically acclaimed work on independent, [...]
14. July 2010
I can be a bit snobbish at times when it comes to comic books. That is to say that sometimes just a certain word associated with a title or series will immediately make me think about skipping over it. Words like “crossover” or credits tagged with “from the band…” tend to turn my stomach, more [...]
Continue reading...13. July 2010
It has come to my attention that several of you are not as obsessed with comic books as I am. So it is with that in mind that I have created this series, for the casual reader, if you will. There are plenty of websites out there that will give you list after list of [...]
Continue reading...13. July 2010
Apparently, when I just toss together a piece on a whim, people seem to like it more than when I actually put a lot of time in to writing something I care about! Last week, I wrote a little piece on what I think the ULTIMATE Super-Hero would look to me. Comprised of some of [...]
Continue reading...8. July 2010
Many of you may be familiar with friend of Battlemouth, and amazing artist, Jonathan Moore. Jonathan is the gun-toting creator of New Holland Days, a webcomic that ran for a while exclusively on Battlemouth. So just where has our beloved hard-boiled detective run off to as of late? While Mr. Moore has been working on [...]
Continue reading...8. July 2010
Anyone who reads comic books, and many who haven’t, have been asked the old “which super-power would you choose” question. It’s just one of those questions that everyone at some point in their life has wondered: what would I do with my own super-powers? While sitting at work, bored out of my mind earlier this [...]
Continue reading...6. July 2010
EXTRA, EXTRA, READ ALL ABOUT IT! Okay, I suppose it’s not really an extra. In fact, for those of you that didn’t know The Casual Readers Pull List comes out every week on Tuesday! This little post is meant as a guide of sorts for the less than die-hard comic book reader that might want [...]
Continue reading...6. July 2010
It is fairly common knowledge that it was Norsemen that first landed on the strange shores of what we now call North America, long before Chris Columbus. As such, it was fitting that last week’s stand-alone issue of Brian Wood’s epic Viking saga, Northlanders, featured a character that decided he was tired of the daily grind of wenching [...]
Continue reading...6. July 2010
Nick Percival, writer and illustrator of the new Radical Books graphic novel Legends: The Enchanted, also works in concept art. He should probably stick to concept art and not do much more writing for comics. This may sound like an exceptionally harsh way to kick off a review for someone’s first time writing, but harsh [...]
Continue reading...30. June 2010
Everyone is talking about Scott Pilgrim. You’ve probably been talking about Scott Pilgrim. The buzz is partially because of the upcoming movie, starring Michael Cera, but most of the talk I’m hearing is about Bryan Lee O’Malley’s books. My friends have been talking about these books, there have been battletweets by battleployees, and even exclamations [...]
Continue reading...30. June 2010
Angelus #4 starts big. Really, really big. We’re talking “armored angelic warriors fighting Cerberus at the gates of Hell” big.
The focus of this issue is a fairly epic battle between the current host of the Angelus, Dani Baptiste, and Jackie Estacado, the current wielder of the Darkness. This is underscored by an ongoing conspiracy concerning [...]
29. June 2010
O hai comic book fans! Hopefully you’ve come here looking for advice on what comic books you should pick up tomorrow! If you are here looking for something else, well I apologize, but we are not going to talk about that; we are going to talk about what comic books you should read instead. Now [...]
Continue reading...29. June 2010
This week Ron Marz and the wonderful folks at Top Cow are bringing back Cyberforce team member, and Pilot Season-winning character, Velocity. Back in 1992, or the “Hootie Age” as I like to call it, Mark and Eric Silvestri created the Cyberforce for Image Comics. The Cyberforce was a team of scientifically-altered teens that fought [...]
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16. July 2010
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