All-New X-Men Volume 1: Ghosts of Cyclops Dennis Hopeless, Mark Bagley, Andrew Hennessy, Nolan Woodard Marvel $15.99 With the exception of the superb and insanely fun X-Men ’92, I’ve more or less stopped buying X-Men […]
Hey, sorry for the delay (again) folks, but I just got back from c2e2 in Chicago, aka, NYCC’s Midwestern sister convention! I had a delightful time watching Chip Zdarsky hug/tackle people and scored some neat […]
Hell of a week y’all. Talking comics today is a welcome distraction after everything we’ve see go down over the last couple of days All New X-Men #30 Brian Michael Bendis/Sara Pichelli/Marte Gracia […]
What I want to do this week: Dedicate 500 words on how rad that new Batgirl design is. What I’m going to do this week: Dedicate those words to reviewing comics. Consider yourselves lucky. :/ […]
Hey gang, sorry for the late of updates since Year Zero, but between Special Edition NYC and Heroescon (and the best BBQ), I haven’t been near a keyboard in awhile. Hopefully I’ll be all caught […]
NOTE: In addition to the books I’m taking a look at this week, I also picked up the second issue of Boom’s Lumberjanes. It’a great book, but real life hasn’t given me much time to […]
Getting straight to the reviews this time around. Hope you enjoyed FCBD, I’m still salty there was ZERO Carol Danvers in that Guardians book. >:( All New X-Men Brian Michael Bendis/Stuart Immonen/Wade Von Grawbadger/Marte Gracia […]
I am entirely too proud of that title. The Fuse Antony Johnston/Justin Greenwood/Shari Chankhamma/Ed Brisson Image/$3.50/ 30 pages Weekly Chris Confession: I had every intention to skip over “The Fuse” this week, figuring I could […]
So we’re all on board for killing the winter/the snow yes? Because we need to. Hawkeye #16 Matt Fraction/Annie Wu/Matt Hollingsworth Marvel, $2.99, 20 pages Hawkeye‘s back this week! Sorta….David Aja still needed time to […]
DID YOU KNOW: Apartment hunting in New York City is THE PITS FPNYC Faithful. My personal problems aside, it was a really good week for comics! Shall I give you the details of the goodness? […]
Happy post-whatever you celebrated/are celebrating “dear” reader. The Santa-man was pretty good to me this year, which was nice because Christmas is expensive y’all. So yeah, it’s the final week of 2013, and my video […]
This is the last big release week in 2013, and man, it ended on kind of a downer comics-wise. 4 out of the 5 Marvel books I pulled had more than 1 artist attached to […]
A butt-ton of books dropped this past week, so let’s get down to business, yes? Black Science Rick Remender/Matteo Scalera/Dean White Image, 20 pages, $3.50 Black Science is a book I was a little concern […]
Obviously yes, I am still experimenting with titles for this thing. Amazing X-men #1 Jason Aaron/Ed McGuinness Marvel, $3.99, 20 pages I’ll admit, I’m a little late to this party, mostly because I initially overlooked […]
Little bit of news FPNYC Faithful, I’m going to Europe from 9/10-9/20. Meaning I’m not going to be talking comics with y’all for 10 days. Which means you’ll have to go to one of those […]
SHAMELESS PLUG! Got an email from the fine folks at New York Comic Con last week, confirming a panel I submitted has been approved. The exact details are coming shortly, but know that once again, […]
San Diego Comic Con is going down, and I am not there, but in hot-ass Brooklyn instead. Part of me is jealous of the dozen or so people I know who are in attendance, but […]
The BEST comics weeks are the ones that you walk into the shop and realize that you can’t possibly afford to buy all the books you want. Or you could, but you shouldn’t. It usually […]
So last week was my worst column yet. How do I quantify that? Well I thought it was dumb, everyone else who read it also thought it was dumb, and not many people read it. […]
Need a few extra days to bang out this week’s new toys article, which means another “filler”-article where I get to talk comics instead. I am excited for times like these, and am probably the […]
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