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The Unwritten #37 – Review

By: Mike Carey & Peter Gross (creators), Chris Chuckry (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Yuko Shimizu (covers), Joe Hughes (assistant editor) & Shelly Bond (editor) The Story: How are people reacting to Tommy Taylor down under? Review (with minor SPOILERS): If you were looking for The Unwritten to return to the regularly scheduled story with a BANG, you [...]

The Unwritten #36 – Review

By: Mike Carey (story/writer), Peter Gross (story/pencils), Rufus Dayglo (finishes), Chris Chuckry (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Yuko Shimizu (cover), Joe Hughes (assistant editor) & Shelly Bond (editor) The Story: Tinker and Pauly Bruckner get ringside seats for the end of the world. Review: This is a tricky issue.  We’ve previously met Brooklyn tough-guy Pauly Bruckner who is [...]

IZombie #24 – Review

By: Chris Roberson (writer), Jim Rugg (art), Laura Allred (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Gregory Lockard (assistant editor) & Shelly Bond (editor) The Story: A background for Agent Kennedy of the Dead Presidents. Review: This is an issue that suffers a little bit because of the news that the series is ending at issue #28.  We have a [...]

The Unwritten #35.5 – Quick Review

By: Mike Carey & Peter Gross (story), Gabriel Hernandez Walta (art), Lee Loughridge (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Yuko Shimizu (cover, Joe Hughes (assistant editor) & Karen Berger (editor) The Story: A Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead version of The Unwritten. The Review: I tend not to pay very close attention to solicitations for ongoing series that I’m [...]

The Unwritten #35 – Review

By: Mike Carey and Peter Gross (story and pencils), M.K. Perker (finishes), Chris Chuckry (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Yuko Shimizu (cover), Joe Hughes (assistant editor) & Karen Berger (editor) The Story: A big finale to the War of the Words storyline as Pullman explains most everything to Tom/Tommy. A few things: [SPOILERS] 1. So….THAT’s what’s going on! - [...]

The Unwritten #34.5 – Review

By: Mike Carey & Peter Gross (story), Gary Erskine (art), Lee Loughridge (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Yuko Shimizu (cover), Joe Hughes (assistant editor), Karen Berger (editor) The Story: A kinda origin of Wilson Taylor set in World War I. Review: This was a very well done comic that left me cold for some reason.  I’m very much [...]

The Unwritten #34 – Review

By: Mike Carey & Peter Gross (creators), M.K. Perker (finishes), Chris Chuckry (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Yuko Shimizu (covers), Joe Hughes (assistant editor) The Story: The Cabal has taken Tom Taylor prisoner and neutralized his powers!  Can his friends bail him out? A Few Things: 1. I should like this more than I do. - There’s [...]

IZombie #22 – Review

By: Chris Roberson (writer), Michael Allred (artist), Laura Allred (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Gregory Lockard (assistant editor), & Shelly Bond (editor) The Story: The big threat is beginning to show itself.  What impact will this have on our main characters? Five Things:  1. Interesting plot development for Gwyn. – Even though I Zombie has an [...]

The Unwritten #33.5 – Review

By: Mike Carey & Peter Gross (creators, writer & pencils), Vince Locke (inks), Lee Loughridge (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Joe Hughes (assistant editor) & Karen Berger (editor) The Story: An origin of the nasty nun with the marionettes. Four Things:  1. These .5 issues are seriously good. – The biggest problem with the .5 issues [...]

The Unwritten #33 – Review

By: Mike Carey & Peter Gross (co-creators, writer & pencils), M.K. Perker (inks), Chris Chuckry (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Joe Hughes (assistant editor) & Karen Berger (editor) The Story: Tom Taylor goes on the offensive versus the Cabal now that he’s all powered up by the belief of his fans. Five Things: 1. Finally an [...]

IZombie #21 – Review

By: Chris Roberson (writer), J. Bone (guest artist), Laura Allred (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Gregory Lockard (assistant editor) & Shelly Bond (editor) The Story: Gwyn the zombie gets hooked up with the Dead Presidents and Galatea’s plans start to make more sense. Four Things:  1. Nifty guest art by J. Bone. – Whoah! Wasn’t expecting [...]

The Unwritten #32.5 – Review

By: Mike Carey & Peter Gross (co-creators), Dean Ormston (finishes), Fiona Stephenson (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Joe Hughes (assistant editor) & Karen Berger (editor) The Story: Another one of the .5 installments that looks at stories through history. Three Things: 1. Lots of good nuggets in these .5 issues. – It’s funny, but the .5 [...]

The Unwritten #32 – Review

By: Mike Carey (writer), Peter Gross (pencils), M.K. Perker (inks), Chris Chuckry (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Joe Hughes (assistant editor) & Karen Berger (editor) The Story: Tom Taylor’s turns to crowd-sourcing his powers. Five Things:  1. Interesting new aspect of Tom’s powers. - I guess we always knew or suspected that Tom’s magical powers could be [...]

IZombie #20 – Review

By: Chris Roberson (writer), Michael Allred (artist), Laura Allred (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Gregory Bond (assistant editor) & Shelly Bond (editor) The Story: With the feds on site looking for leftover zombies from the big outbreak, how’s a girl supposed to get a brain to eat? Five Things:  1. A new direction for the series. [...]

IZombie #19 – Review

By: Chris Roberson (writer), Michael Allred (art), Laura Allred (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Gregory Lockard (assistant editor) & Shelly Bond (editor) The Story: In the aftermath of the zombie outbreak, our main characters take time to regroup…..or hide. Five Things:  1. Nice settling point for the series.  We always make a big deal of “jumping [...]

The Unwritten #31 – Review

By: Mike Carey & Peter Gross (writer & pencils), M.K. Perker (inks), Chris Chuckry (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Joe Hughes (assistant editor) & Karen Berger (editor) The Story: The War of the Words begins as Tom Taylor starts to fight back against the Cabal. Five Things:  1. Tom Taylor has the power!  After spending 30 [...]

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 [...]

Unwritten #30 – Review

By: Mike Carey & Peter Gross (creators, writers & art), Vince Locke (inks on 1930s sequences), Chris Chuckry (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Joe Hughes (assistant editor) & Karen Berger (editor) The Story: Tom Taylor learns about his half-brother. Review: This is another of those “hard to review” series because I find myself saying the same [...]

IZombie #18 – Review

By: Chris Roberson (writer), Jay Stephens (guest artist), Laura Allred (colors), Michael Allred (inks on a few pages), Todd Klein (letters), Gregory Lockard (assistant editor) & Shelly Bond (editor) The Story: The back-story of Diogenes, the monster hunter from the Fossor Corporation. What’s Good: This is a very clean and streamlined story.  IZombie is an [...]

The Unwritten #29 – Review

By: Mike Carey & Peter Gross (story & art), Vince Locke (inks on 1930′s sequences), Chris Chuckry (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Joe Hughes (assistant editor), Karen Berger (editor) The Story: We learn more about the events that drove Wilson Taylor away from the mysterious cabal trying to rule the world through stories. What’s Good: This [...]

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 [...]

The Unwritten #28 – Review

By: Mike Carey & Peter Gross (presumably writing & drawing respectively, but they don’t say), Vince Locke (inks on flashback sequences), Chris Chuckry (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Joe Hughes (assistant editor) & Karen Berger (editor) The Story: Tom Taylor learns more about his father’s 1930′s relationship with a cartoonist (who also happens to be a [...]

I Zombie #16 – Review

By: Chris Roberson (writer), Michael Allred (artist), Laura Allred (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Gregory Lockard (assistant editor) & Shelly Bond (editor) The Story: Many plot points crash into one another as the zombie outbreak afflicting Eugene, Oregon comes to a climax. What’s Good: Honestly, the best thing about this comic (and series) is the artwork. [...]

The Unwritten #27 – Review

By: Mike Carey & Peter Gross (writer and artist), Vince Locke (inks on a few pages), Chris Chuckry (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Joe Hughes (assistant editor) and Karen Berger (editor) The Story: More goodness in the Unwritten universe as Tom and gang continue to find clues about the secret society that seems to be pulling [...]

I Zombie #15 – Review

By: Chris Roberson (writer), Michael Allred (art), Laura Allred (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Gregory Lockard (assistant editor) & Shelly Bond (editor) The Story: A cute zombie & her monster-hunter boyfriend take on a hoard of shambling zombies. What’s Good: This is a pretty standard issue of I Zombie.  If you’re invested in and enjoy the [...]

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