Graphic Novel Reviews and Recommendations by WIN WIACEK
By Tom DeFalco, J.M. DeMatteis, Terry Kavanagh, David Michelinie, Mark Bagley, Sal Buscema, Ron Lim, Tom Lyle, Alex Saviuk & various (Marvel) ISBN: 0-7851-0038-5 (1994)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 978-0-7851-0987-7 (2005) After a shaky start in 1962 The Amazing Spider-Man soon became a popular sensation with kids of all ages, rivalling the creative powerhouse that was Lee & Kirby’s …
By David Michelinie, Tom DeFalco, Terry Kavanagh, J.M. DeMatteis, Mark Bagley, Ron Lim, Alex Saviuk, Tom Lyle, Sal Buscema, Steven Butler & various (MARVEL) ISBN: 978-1-3029-4662-3 (TPB/Digital edition) Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Massive Marvel Mayhem… 7/10 After a shaky start in 1962 The Amazing Spider-Man soon became a popular sensation with kids of all ages, …
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By Cullen Bunn, Salvador Espin, Mike Henderson, Aaron Kim Jacinto & various (Marvel/Panini UK) ISBN: 978-1-84653-613-7 Stylish killers and mercenaries craving something more than money have long made popular fiction protagonists and light-hearted, exuberant bloodbath comics will always find an appreciative audience… Deadpool is Wade Wilson (yes, a thinly disguised knockoff of Slade Wilson AKA …
By Kevin Shinick, Stephen Segovia, Dennis Crisostomo, Don Ho & Dan Mexia (Marvel/Panini UK) ISBN: 978-1-84653-567-3 Back in the anything goes, desperate hurly-burly of the late 1980s and early1990s, fad-fever and spin-off madness gripped the superhero genre in America as publishers hungrily exploited every trick to bolster flagging sales. In the melee Spider-Man spawned an …
By Zeb Wells & Clayton Crain ((Marvel/Panini UK) ISBN: 978-1-84653-492-8 In the anything goes, desperate hurly-burly of the late 1980s and 1990s, fad-fever and spin-off madness gripped the superhero genre in America as publishers hungrily exploited every trick to bolster flagging sales. In the melee Spider-Man spawned an intractable enemy called Venom: a deranged and …
By Roy Thomas, Steve Englehart, Gerry Conway, Archie Goodwin, Steve Gerber, Chris Claremont, Tony Isabella, Herb Trimpe & various (MARVEL) ISBN: 978-1302929169 (TPB/Digital) The Incredible Hulk #1 hit newsstands and magazine spinners on March 1st 1962. The comic book was cover-dated May, so happy sort-of birthday Big Guy! Bruce Banner was a military scientist caught …
Continue reading “Incredible Hulk Epic Collection volume 6: Crisis on Counter-Earth 1972-1974”
By Ken Reid (Rebellion Studios) ISBN: 978-1-78108-883-8 (HB/Digital edition) If you know British Comics, you’ll know Ken Reid. He was one of a select and singular pantheon of rebellious, artistic prodigies who – largely unsung and regularly uncredited – went about transforming British Comics, entertaining millions and inspiring hundreds of those readers to become cartoonists …
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By Len Wein, Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway, Steve Englehart, Tony Isabella, Herb Trimpe & various (Marvel) ISBN: 978-0-7851-9596-2 (HB) During the 1970s the Incredible Hulk settled into a comfortable – if spectacularly destructive – pattern. A globe-trotting, monster-mashing plot formula saw tragic Bruce Banner hiding and seeking cures for his gamma-transformative curse, alternately aided or …
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By Geoff Johns, James Robinson, Tony Bedard, Greg Rucka, Scott Kolins, Eddy Barrows, Nicola Scott, Eduardo Pansica & various (DC Comics) ISBN: 978-4012-2803-3 Hold onto your heads, hearts and scorecards: the mind-buggering confusion is almost over… Reprinting supplemental 3-part miniseries Blackest Night: The Flash, Blackest Night: J.S.A. and Blackest Night: Wonder Woman from 2010, this …
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By Tony S. Daniel, Sandu Florea, Fabian Nicieza & various (DC Comics) ISBN: 978-0-4012-2417-2 I’m innately suspicious of and generally hostile to big, bombastic braided crossover events in comics. Does any other popular art form use them yet, or are they too often simply an excuse to shear cash from hard-up fans? (Coming Soon to …