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The Shade #4 – Review

By: James Robinson (writer), Darwyn Cooke (penciller), J. Bone (inker), Dave Stewart (colorist) The Story: A cover on Life magazine?  You’ve really made it. The Review: It’s not usually my style to start off a review with bias, but I’ll make a rare exception to say that this series has one of the freshest voices [...]

Batwoman #5 – Review

By: J.H. Williams III & W. Haden Blackman (writers), J.H. Williams III (artist), Dave Stewart (colorist) The Story: Screw the Ghostbusters—Batwoman’s on the case! The Review: Kate Kane as Batwoman faced a lot of scrutiny from the moment she came into existence, and although her sexual preferences were the most controversial, I think even if [...]

Batwoman #4 – Review

By: J.H. Williams III & W. Haden Blackman (writers), J.H. Williams III (artist), Dave Stewart (colorist) The Story: Unlike another firebird themed heroine, Bette Kane may not rise again. The Review: I’m always doubtful when artists take on the writing role, and that’s admittedly a bit unfair.  After all, there are those who dedicate themselves [...]

Batwoman #3 – Review

By: J.H. Williams III (co-writer & artist), W. Haden Blackman (co-writer), Dave Stewart (colorist) The Story: As always, having too many women in your life can be a big problem. The Review: Comics rely on a sympathetic collaboration between words and art.  When the artistic pedigree of a title reaches the kind of heights you [...]

Batwoman #2 – Review

By J.H. Williams III (co-writer & artist), W. Haden Blackman (co-writer), Dave Stewart (colors), Todd Klein (letters) The Story: Batwoman continues her investigation of the mysterious Weeping Woman while avoiding the federal agents trying to capture and unmask her. What’s Good: Good lord this book is beautiful. I know I should expect that, after all [...]

American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest #5 – Review

By: Scott Snyder (writer), Sean Murphy (art), Dave Stewart (colors), Pat Brosseau (letters), Joe Hughes (assistant editor) & Mark Doyle (editor) The Story: Cash and Felicia try to escape from the Nazi vampires with a “cure” for vampirism. Review: This was a very satisfying conclusion to this AV miniseries.  It ties up most of the [...]

Batwoman #1 – Review

By J.H. Williams III (co-writer & artist), W. Haden Blackman (co-writer), Dave Stewart (colors), Todd Klein (letters) (Before we get started, for the sake of full disclosure, let me just say: ITSHEREITSFINALLYHERE!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!! We now return to your regularly scheduled, completely impartial review.) The Story: In a continuity seemingly untouched from the vaunted Detective Comics [...]

American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest #3 – Review

By: Scott Snyder (writer), Sean Murphy (artist), Dave Stewart (colors), Pat Brosseau (letters), Joe Hughes (assistant editor) and Mark Doyle (editor) The Story: Cash & Felecia’s mission to Nazi-occupied Europe looks bleak as the Nazis have been revealed to be league with vampires. What’s Good: Everything about this issue is good (again) and that’s almost [...]

American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest #2 – Review

By: Scott Snyder (writer), Sean Murphy (artist), Dave Stewart (colors), Pat Brosseau (letters), Joe Hughes (assistant editor) & Mark Doyle (editor) The Story: Cash and Felicia enter Nazi-occupied Europe in a search for a secret that can help them in their battle against the vampires. What’s Good: As a reviewer, you run out of superlatives [...]

American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest #1 – Review

By: Scott Snyder (writer), Sean Murphy (art), Dave Stewart (colors), Pat Brosseau (letters), Joe Hughes (assistant editor) & Mark Doyle (editor) The Story: It’s 1941 and the Vassals of the Morning Star are on a mission to stamp out some vampires and head off on a secret mission to Nazi-controlled Europe. High Expectations: American Vampire [...]

Rocketeer Adventures #1 – Review

By: John Cassaday, Laura Martin, Chris Mowry, Mike Mignola, Dave Stewart, Mike Allred, Laura Allred, Jim Silke, Kurt Busiek, Michael Kaluta The Story: An anthology of stories about Dave Stewart’s Rocketeer by an All-Star cast of creators. What’s Good: Just look at that list of creators!  I’m not even a huge Rocketeer fan, but when [...]

Science Dog Special #2 – Review

by Robert Kirkman (writer), Cory Walker (penciller & inker), Dave Stewart & Chris Chuckry (colorists), and Rus Wooton (letterer) The Story:  Science Dog desperately tries to rewrite history. The Review:  Time for me to come clean: I’ve never really been a fan of Cory Walker.  Invincible co-creator or not, his work always seemed a little [...]

Joe the Barbarian #8 – Review

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Sean Murphy (artist), Dave Stewart (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Pornsak Pichetshote (associate editor) & Karen Berger (editor) The Story: Joe the Barbarian wraps up.  Will “the dying boy” overcome a hypoglycemia?  And what will become of his family’s home? What’s Good: Sean Murphy’s art is very, very good.  There isn’t a [...]

Batwoman #0 – Review

by J.H. Williams III (writer/artist), W. Haden Blackman (co-writer), Amy Reeder (artist: Kate sequence), Dave Stewart (colors), Todd Klein (letters) The Story: Bruce Wayne spends time observing, assessing and testing the newest, self-appointed member of the Bat family. What’s Good: Regular readers of this site will know that I am a HUGE fan of both [...]

Daytripper #10 – Review

By: Fabio Moon & Gabriel Ba (creators), Dave Stewart (colors) & Sean Konot (letters) The Story: Daytripper comes to an end.  Is it going to tie things up with a bow or leave us with questions to ponder? What’s Good: I thought this series wrapped up perfectly.  Some people might have wanted an explanation to [...]

Daytripper #9 – Review

By: Fabio Moon & Gabriel Ba (creators), Dave Stewart (colors) & Sean Konot (letters) The Story: We finally get some answers to what is going on with Bras and why he keeps dying at the end of each issue. What’s Good: For a change, Bras doesn’t die at the end of this issue.  I had [...]

Daytripper #8 – Review

By: Gabriel Ba & Fabio Moon (creators), oddly this issue has no credits or indicia The Story: What if a family member leaves on a routine trip and you never see them again? What’s Good: The Brazilian brothers found a way to mix this issue up without really straying from the same basic story that [...]

Daytripper #7 – Review

By: Fabio Moon & Gabriel Ba (writing/art), Dave Stewart (colors), Sean Konot (letters) The Story: Will Bras be able to find his missing friend Jorge and what will happen when they get back together? What’s Good: I still don’t really know where this storyline is going.  Wait, why am I listing that as a “good [...]

Daytripper #6 – Review

By: Fabio Moon & Gabriel Ba (creators), Dave Stewart (colors) & Sean Konot (letters) The Story: Has Bras lost his best friend in a plane crash?  Will Bras die again? What’s Good: The marriage of story and art continues to be just exemplary in Daytripper.  Ba and Moon are really doing a great job of [...]

Hellboy in Mexico (Or, A Drunken Blur) – Review

by Mike Mignola (writer), Richard Corben (art), Dave Stewart (colors), and Clem Robins The Story: Hellboy teams up with a trio of luchadores to fight vampires in 1950s Mexico. What’s Good: Believe me when I say that Mignola definitely delivers on the insanity of that hook I typed out above.  With all the big powers [...]

Daytripper #5 – Review

By: Fabio Moon & Gabriel Ba (writers/artists), Dave Stewart (colors) & Sean Konot (letters) The Story: An 11-year old boy enjoys an idyllic time of innocence on his family’s farm. What’s Good: You could almost do a copy/paste for what is good about this title month after month.  Both the story and the art effortlessly [...]

Hulk #19 – Review

By: Jeph Loeb (writer), Ed McGuinness (penciller), Mark Farmer (inker), Dave Stewart (colorist) The Story: The Intelligencia, having split with their ally the Red Hulk, send the Fearsome Four to invade the Baxter Building under the leadership of one of their own, the Wizard. Red Hulk sneaks in too, acting on a larger plan. And [...]

Detective Comics #860 – Review

Batwoman by: Greg Rucka (writer), J.H. Williams III (artist), Dave Stewart (colors) The Question by: Greg Rucka (writer), Cully Hamner (artist), Dave McCraig (colors) The Story: For the lead story, this is the final issue of Batwoman’s origin and it pulls together the last three years of her life, from her moment of epiphany, to [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #614 – Review

By Mark Waid (writer), Paul Azaceta (art), Dave Stewart (colored art) The Story: Power to the People, Part Three: Spider-Man is rescued from the wreckage of the Thinker’s lab by the NYFD, but he might have found something that will help him against a juiced-up Electro. In the meantime, Electro traps everyone in the Daily [...]

X-Force Annual #1 – Review

Main Story by Robert Kirkman (Writer), Jason Pearson (Art), and Dave Stewart (Colors) “Undeadpoool” by Craig Kyle & Christopher Yost (Writers), Carlo Barberi (Pencils), Sandu Florea (Inks), and Edgar Delgado (Colors) The Story: Robert Kirkman’s story that takes up the bulk of the X-Force Annual is about Wolverine breaking into a Hydra base in order [...]

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