Tag: Vertigo
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Fables, Vol. 9: Sons of Empire – A Graphic Novel Review
What can I say? Fables continues to be the best comic book series out there–period. Sons of Empire maintains the excellent status quo by setting up a major storyline to come, giving us an interesting Christmas tale, and further exploring the relationship between fathers and sons. Most entertaining, though, is a series of “short stories”…
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Y: The Last Man: Motherland – A Graphic Novel Review
In case you’re not familiar with Brian K. Vaughan’s Y: The Last Man, the premise is that a catastrophic plague has wiped every man on the planet but one, Yorick Brown. For an inexplicable reason, Yorick and his pet monkey, Ampersand, were spared. Now Yorick desperately wants to traverse a planet in chaos as women…
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Preacher, Volume I: Gone To Texas – A Graphic Novel Review
This is the first volume in a nine volume series collecting the acclaimed Vertigo series. For those of you who don’t know, Vertigo is a division of DC Comics, those folks who bring you Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. However, Vertigo is certainly not for kids, typically dealing with very mature subject matter and adult…
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Fables: The Mean Seasons – A Graphic Novel Review
Once again, I found out about the series Fables from the Eisner Awards list. I’ve yet to be disappointed by my buys from the winners of the Eisner Awards, and Fables is no different. First of all, let me catch you up to speed. Fables is about a community of exiled Fables who have taken…
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The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman – A Book Review
I somehow missed the boat on this series that began in 1988. It ran through 1997, and some believe it is the greatest comic series to have ever existed. I finally-FINALLY-decided I needed to check it out. Gaiman himself has admitted in the past that Preludes and Nocturnes was a bit of a rough start…
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The Sandman: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman – A Book Review
The Kindly Ones encompasses the direct consequences of the earlier volume, Brief Lives. In Brief Lives, Lord Morpheus (Dream) changes, for better or for worse. The actions that lead to such change must have ramifications, and The Kindly Ones details such repercussions. In The Kindly Ones, Lyta Hall, a character who has made sporadic appearances…
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