If you didn’t already know it, I write a twice monthly column on the Kirkus Reviews blog focused on graphic novels. This year, despite lots of stuff going on around casa de ATFMB, I managed to read and review 24 graphic novels! I figured...
I have a new gig over on Kirkus Reviews talking about graphic novels tied to literary works. For the first piece, I decided to do Game of Thrones Vol 1 from Dynamite / Bantam. Here’s a clip: Making the leap from print to a visual medium...
Fans of epic fantasy are used to long series – The Wheel of Time & The Sword of Truth come to mind. But I don’t know that even the most hard core fantasy fan would read 51 books in a series without some complaint. I bring this up...
Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps War Vol. 2 SC (Green Lantern by Geoff Johns My rating: 1 of 5 stars I didn’t care for this as much as I have the other collections. It was all over the place and didn’t feel very coherent. I think it...
Anthony Rogers first appeared in the pages of Amazing Stories waaaay back in 1928. He pulled a Rip Van Winkle, passing out in a cave and waking up in the 25th century. Gas in the cave held him in a sort of suspended animation, keeping him alive...
A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty, “Hi Yo Silver! Away!” With his faithful Indian companion Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early...
At the tender age of six years old, Harry Dresden became an orphan. His mother, Margaret Gwendolyn LeFay McCoy Dresden, had died giving birth to Harry and his father, Malcolm, died of a brain aneurysm leaving Harry all alone. For a few years...
The story goes that Sinestro was the greatest Green Lantern of all time; the Guardians on OA held him up as an example for all other Lanterns to follow and emulate. When the very first human from earth joined the corps, the Guardians decided...
Batman is dead; sacrificed for the greater good trying to stop Darkseid in Final Crisis. In the aftermath of his death, Gotham descends into a crime wave. Once before, when Bane broke the Batman, Dick Grayson assumed the mantle of the Bat to...
3,964 years before the Battle of Yavin, the Old Republic was embroiled in a galactic war. It is a time of upheaval for the galaxy. The Mandalorian Wars have strained the Old Republic’s resources to the breaking...
Hal Jordan returns as the Green...
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