Secret Avengers #1

Secret Avengers #1 Marvel Comics (w) Ed Brubaker (a) Mike Deodato FC 32 pgs w/ ads $3.99 US / Higher In Canada The second of Marvel’s relaunched Avenger titles debuted this week. Ed Brubaker is tackling this title instead of Brian Michael Bendis (who writes almost all the flagship Avenger titles) or even Dan Slott [...]

Criminal: The Sinners #1 (of 5)

Criminal: The Sinners #1 (of 5)
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(w) Ed Brubaker
(a) Sean Phillips
FC, 36 pgs w/ ads $3.50 US / Higher in Canada

The greatest modern crime comic returns. Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips put their Eisner award-winning comic on hold to produce Incognito, their pulpish five-issue miniseries about a super-villain living in a witness protection program. As a fan of Criminal, I was eagerly awaiting the series’ return, and the return of Tracy, the character reported to be headlining the new story arc.

Top 10: Daredevil Stories

This time around, the Man Without Fear: Daredevil. DD has always been one of my favourite characters, and his stories have always been among my favourite reads. Having said that, I never got into the Ann Nocenti / John Romita Jr. run or that whacky Daredevil in armour period, where he tried to pretend that Matt Murdock was dead and he was someone else. I just didn’t care for Nocenti’s take on the character and dropped it quickly. I DID pick up quite a bit of the “armour” run but STILL found it unreadable. Those two eras spanned roughly #250 to #380– almost thirteen solid years where one of my favourite books was ransacked.

Daredevil #116

Brubaker with his latest artist, David Aja (Immortal Iron Fist), bring back the baddest baddy from Daredevil’s rogue’s gallery: The Kingpin. After a short time away from the game of superhero conflict and organized crime, The Kingpin’s retirement draws to a close. He’s headed home after an abrupt meeting with Lady Bullseye and The Hand. Wilson Fisk tried his hardest to stay clear of his past and begin anew, but ghosts of former lives always follows those who do the worst.

Criminal volume 4: Bad Night

First off, I am a superhero guy. More importantly, I am a DC superhero guy. So when I was listening to one of the many comic pod casts around Christmas time and they suggested that Criminal volume 2: The Dead and the Dying was one of the best books of 2008, I was a bit skeptical. It wasn’t DC. And it wasn’t superhero. But, in my attempts to become a well-rounded reader, I jotted down the name and promised myself that I would ask about it next Wednesday when I popped into my local comic shop.