I am by no means a person who says that Grant Morrison can do no wrong.  I don’t even think his entire Animal Man run reaches the “brilliant” level.  The first five issues, yes, were unlike anything that came before.  And the eight issues I am reviewing today: Revolutionary.  But in the middle act, it [...]

Daytripper #8 made me cry.  No shit.  I mean, I wasn’t blubbering or anything, but there were definitely tears.  Then issue ten, the finale, did it again.  This is a book that everyone should read.  Some people want to buy the world a coke, I’d like to buy them this. Daytripper tells the story of [...]

In just 8 issues, Joe the Barbarian became one of my favorite comics of all time.  In it, Grant Morrison and Sean Murphy weave fantasy and reality in a book about a boy who transports to a dream world—or does he?  This is a fairly standard concept–it’s been done famously by Wizard of Oz and [...]

I’ve written about DC’s police procedural, Gotham Central, several times for this site, and now I get to pick it as one of my favorite comics of all time. The book ran for 40 issues, with contributions from three folks who are now legends: Michael Lark.  Greg Rucka.  Ed Brubaker.  And all of them got [...]

Since I began this new feature that looks at some of my favorite comic books ever with a pretty standard entry from the most mainstream of all possible comics (Marvel’s Amazing Spider-Man), I figured I’d move from the accessible to the obscure.  And out of print. In 2004, Steve Gerber (best known for his work [...]

Today begins a new feature, and it begins with a book I once called the third-best comic story of the 1980s… The Greatest Comics of All Time is not a column that is designed to promote the obscure (or the over-exposed for that matter); rather, it is designed to discuss those books that I, personally, [...]