For the uninitiated, Criminal is a long-running series of mini-series: Noir comic book stories generally told in 4-issue sets that are not interrelated (although they often feature the same background characters). Today’s post on the greatest comics of all time, part of my now weekly series here, will discuss the most recent (and in my [...]

Let’s get one thing straight from the jump: I thought the movie version of The Losers was a blast.  Loved it.  Saw it twice.  Loved it so much, I went out and got the entire Vertigo comic book in trade.  And I can safely say this: If you hated the movie, don’t bother with the [...]

This isn’t my average every day type GCOAT post. This one’s a doozy. If you don’t know, the story of The Authority started with Stormwatch and WildC.A.T.S. These were prototypical 1990s books: Big heavy muscles, big heavy storylines, action and noise. Some of the greatest creators of the times passed through it, including Jim Lee, [...]

Today’s entry in my Greatest Comics of All Time series is another Vertigo title, written by the Eisner-award-winning author of Stray Bullets and DeadpoolMAX, David Lapham. Young Liars is a challenge to read. At first, it appears fairly straightforward: A group of young, troubled twentysomethings having adventures in big city bars and nightclubs. But little [...]

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, [...]