The Amazing Nightcrawler #1
This book is a complex mix of soap-opera-style drama, incisive social commentary, and a nuanced study of life on the fun side of a scary totalitarian regime. It’s a hell of a lot of fun. And, yes, Nightcrawler is pretty danged Amazing.
DetailsBatman #65
Despite the frankly heroic efforts of the visual artists to wrench coherence and beauty from this script, the writing was so abysmal that I cannot recommend that anyone spend money on this book.
DetailsMarvelous X-Men #1
Beneath the 60’s-Chic design and happy happy faces inhabiting X-Man’s perfect world lies a deep seam of dystopian fear. Witty writing and beautiful art combine to make this issue everything that you’d want from an X-Men alternate reality story.
DetailsBatman #64
Incoherent dialogue, a rushed pace, and a flimsy plot cannot, it turns out, be redeemed by good line art.
DetailsX-Force #2
This new iteration of X-Force combines tight plotting, cutting dialogue, and an intriguing mystery with exceptional art. Taken together, these elements build to a fun, engaging, and thematically-dark story. There’s a renaissance happening in the X-Books right now. This is part of it.
DetailsThor #9
This issue’s beautiful art and stellar plot are tarnished by some rather insidious sexism.
DetailsAge of X-Man: Alpha #1
This just might be the X-Men story we’ve all been waiting for.
DetailsBatman #63
This is another aspect of a long and fascinating story — a masterful addition to the Batman mythos.
DetailsThe B.P.R.D. The Devil You Know #12
Dragons, dead men, possessed children, and a pair of melancholic vampires are all waiting around for the end of the world. It would be rude to let them wait alone,. Why not open a book, pull up a tombstone and join them?
DetailsBatman #62
This was a hallucinatory, nightmarish episode contributing a vital splash of blood to an interesting story. The art is worth the cover-price alone.
DetailsThor #8
Plot troubles are slightly mitigated by wonderful art and the inclusion of Thori. Thori makes everything better.
DetailsExtermination #5
The conclusion of the Extermination series combined tight writing with beautiful art and manages to tie off most of the loose ends created by the time-displaced O5.
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