Comics
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Batman Knightfall – Comic vs Novel vs TV Show
Batman: Knightfall This is an iconic story in the Batman universe. It was a huge event starting in 1993 and it crossed over into every related Batman title. The main story ran in Detective Comics, which introduced the character in 1939 in issue # 27. Batman became the star of the title shortly thereafter and…
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Jack of Fables Comes to an End
I’ve been following the adventures of Jack Horner a.k.a. Jack the Giant Slayer a.k.a. Jack Frost since I first discovered this comic book series. It’s been a great read . . . but all great things must come to an end. I’ll admit that it felt like the series ended with the last issue. I…
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The Humans are Worse than the Zombies
The Walking Dead: Volume 4: The Heart’s Desire by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, and Cliff Rathburn The Walking Dead is a very popular television series that was based on a comic book. I read the first hardcover collection a few years back and am only just getting around to reading more of the title.…
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Long Live Daredevil
Daredevil: End of Days by Brian Michael Bendis, David Mack, Klaus Janson, Bill Sienkiewicz, and Alex Maleev Daredevil meets a violent end at the hands of his arch-nemesis Bullseye. That’s not a spoiler alert either. This book is about the final days of our favourite super-hero. The strange thing about this story is that…
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The Final Days of Captain America
Captain America: The Chosen by David Morrell and Mitch Breitweiser Ever since Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns, comic writers have been inspired to tell the stories of the final days of our favourite superheroes. Origin stories have always been popular, but now exit stories are becoming all the more frequent. This graphic novel tells…
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Batman, Robin, and The Red Hood Join Forces
Batman & Robin: Dark Knight Vs. White Knight by Cornel, McDaniel, Tomasi, Gleason, Winick, and Tocchini There are three stories in this graphic novel. My favourite is not the title story, however. I much prefer the story arc that had Batman and Robin joining forces with The Red Hood. A little bit of history…
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Darth Vader Unleashed
Star Wars: Darth Vader and The Ghost Prison This story takes place shortly after the events in Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and approximately nineteen years before Episode IV A New Hope. Darth Vader is a ruthless villain and is unleashed on the pages here in a way we have never seen before. The…
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Comic Book Television: Phase 3
It’s so refreshing to see comic book inspired television hitting the airwaves with quality writing and production. We are now in a third phase of this trend, and I really hope that this one proves to be more effective than the last one. No Ordinary Family was a great show that grounded superheroes in a…
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Daredevil Still Going Strong with Volume 3
Daredevil: Volume 1 by Mark Waid, Paolo Manuel Rivera, and Marcos Martin This is the start of the third volume of the on-going Daredevil monthly comic. It started its production in April 2011 and I bought the first edition of comic but have held off with buying more. I was waiting for the collected hardcover edition.…
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The New Adventures of Jack
I am continuing to blog about every book I read. It’s a lot of fun having this yearly reading log. The latest additions to the list are three trade paperbacks from the on-going Jack of Fables series. Jack of Fables: Volume 5 – Turning Pages by Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Russ Braun, Tony Akins, Jose…