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The Punisher #11 – Review

by Greg Rucka (writer), Mirko Colak (art), Dan Brown & Jim Charalampidis (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Detective Warren Bolt comes clean about his relationship with the Punisher after a crazy night with Frank in Times Square killing….zombies? The Review: There are two ways of reading this comic.  On the one hand, you [...]

The Walking Dead #97 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: Rick and his scouting party return to Arlington with news of the Bigger World. Recap/Review (with SPOILERS): As was the case last month, The Walking Dead shows how much better it works when the reader can see [...]

The New Deadwardians #2 – Review

By: Dan Abnett (writer), I.N.J. Culbard (artist), Patricia Mulvihill (colors), Travis Lanham (letters), Mark Doyle (associate editor) & Will Dennis (editor) The Story: The murder-mystery set in a zombie-infested Edwardian era London continues. Recap/Review (with minor SPOILERS): This was a challenging review to compose.  I kept starting by saying that, “The New Deadwardians is different than typical [...]

The Walking Dead #94 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (artist), Cliff Rathburn (grey tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: The gang sets out to find one of these new cities that we’ve been hearing so much about. A few things: [with SPOILERS] 1. Too much writing for the trade. - There was a time when TWD was equally [...]

The Walking Dead #92 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (artist), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: New stuff pops up, but is this going to be a threat or an opportunity? Five things:  1. Glad to see something intriguing happen! - I was really hard on the last issue of TWD.  The [...]

The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 6 – Review

Original Air Date: November 20, 2011 The Story: Everyone has secrets and it turns out that “can’t-live-with-’em-can’t-live-without-’em” saying about women is true. Five Things: 1. Man, Lori. - What an unlikable character she’s becoming!  This really does mirror the comic where every time Rick had something important to do, there was Lori harping at him.  Yelling [...]

The Walking Dead #91 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: Life drags on inside the Arlington enclave. Five Things: [SPOILER WARNING] 1. What a bummer resolution to the Rick-Andrea situation!  Really?  Issue #90 ends with Rick and Andrea having a passionate kiss and then we [...]

The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 5 – Review

Original Air Date: November 13, 2011 Five things: (Full SPOILERS) 1. Darryl’s incredibly crappy day.  Man….that’s a bad day at the office, huh?  About halfway through the show, I tweeted that they should have called the episode “Darryl’s really shitty day”.  Fall off a horse (bad stunt work. No one falls off a horse that [...]

The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 4 – Review

Original Air Date: November 6, 2011 Five things:  1. Nothing BIG going on, but lots of little stuff.  This almost felt like an issue of the comic book.  Anyone who reads the comic knows that the comic series delights in starting small smoldering fires and then fanning the flames for 5-6 issues until the characters have [...]

The Walking Dead #90 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (penciler/inker), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: How will Rick respond to the plot against him. Five things:  As always, this is a FULL SPOILERS review…. 1). This was a really “meh” story cycle. This climax and aftermath to the plot against [...]

The Walking Dead #89 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: Will the Alexandria survivors accept Rick & Gang as the leaders of the settlement? SPOILER WARNING What’s Good: It’s nice that Kirkman isn’t screwing around with the newest threat.  There have been times in the [...]

The Walking Dead #88 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letterer) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: Life goes on in the Alexandria compound now that someone has woken up from a coma. What’s Good: As with all Walking Dead reviews I do, this review contains SPOILERS…. Honestly, there isn’t a whole [...]

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 Walking Dead #87 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (creator & writer), Charlie Adlard (artist), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: The survivors of the Alexandria compound set about rebuilding their walls and their lives. What’s Good: [The top portion of this review is spoiler-free.  I'll have discussion of the big "Oh crap!" spoiler [...]

Graveyard of Empires #1 – Review

By: Mark Sable (writer), Paul Azaceta (art), Matt Wilson (colors) & Thomas Mauer (letters) The Story: A zombie outbreak during the present day Afghan war. What’s Good: Good zombie stories aren’t really about zombies.  Zombies are just a cool narrative device to do things like confine a bunch of people in a desperate environment and [...]

The Walking Dead #85 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: The humans clean up after laying a massive smack down on the zombies in last month’s issue. [SPOILER WARNING ] What’s Good: Comics can’t be breakneck all the time.  The Walking Dead is a marathon [...]

IZombie #13 – Review

By: Chris Roberson (writer), Michael Allred (art), Laura Allred (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Gregory Lockard (assistant editor) & Shelly Bond (editor) The Story: After spending the first dozen issues mostly sorting out who these freaky characters are, it seems that we are embarking on our first mission-based story arc having to do with the evil [...]

The Walking Dead #84 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: After the shocking events of the last issue, the survivors need to man-up. What’s Good: [SPOILER WARNING] If you thought that this issue would continue the bloodbath we got last month, you would be wrong. [...]

The Walking Dead #83 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (grays), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: As the walled enclave turns into a zombie-filled death-trap, Rick & Gang make a break for it. What’s Good: [Spoilers ahead.  If you haven't read the issue, just skim to the bottom, see the "grade" and [...]

The Walking Dead #82 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: Zombies are breaking into the safe little enclave. What’s Good: [SPOILER WARNING] It’s amazing how an issue like this– that features the first full-on zombie swarm since around issue #58 or so– has so many [...]

The Walking Dead #81 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: Attack of the zombies OR “You gotta sink those fence posts in concrete!” What’s Good: [This review contains spoilers] Kirkman has been teasing the hell out of us readers for ~6 months with this whole [...]

The Walking Dead #80 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Russ Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: No Way Out begins.  Will the zombies get a snack? What’s Good: This issue was a bit of a tease.  [SPOILER warning]  The thing that makes this comic series and book so special is that [...]

The Walking Dead #79 – Review

B y: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlies Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Russ Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: As life passes in the sleepy little enclave, danger is closing in. What’s Good: The tension was just palpable in this issue.  It’s hard to discuss without getting a little SPOILERIFFIC so you’ve been [...]

The Walking Dead Episode 4 – Review

The Story: Did you really think that the only people to survive the Atlanta area were the 20 or so people we see in TWD?  Also someone finally gets eaten by a zombie! What’s Good: This was pitch perfect for what we comic-fans want The Walking Dead to be, as it is adapted to the [...]

The Walking Dead Episode #2 – Review

The Story: Rick has to escape from a downtown Atlanta that is swarmed by zombies. What’s Good: The pilot episode of TWD was interesting in how much it followed the comics.  It was nice that they started out with a pretty faithful adaptation of the comic (as a nod to us comic fans) before going [...]

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