If you heard there was a comic book called “Barack the Barbarian,” odds are you thought it was going to be a cheap money grab, juxtaposing Barack Obama with the Conan the Barbarian comics he’s said to collect. Turns out you’d be wrong. Barack the Barbarian, subtitled “Quest for the Treasure of Stimuli!” [...]

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I’ve made some comments over the last month or two about feeling sorry for anyone planning to read Secret Invasion in trade paperback (tpb) format.  The actual mini-series was released as a solo tpb and when released on a weekly basis, the tie-ins (especially the Avengers titles) would unfold as flashbacks, [...]

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Final Crisis, while not without enjoyable bits, is a victim of poor scheduling and worse formatting in its lifecycle as a “monthly” mini-series or series of mini-series or series of mini-series with a couple issues of a regular title thrown in.  Yes, figuring out how to read the silly thing is that convoluted and the [...]

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Punisher: War Zone is an enjoyable mess of a movie, suffering from being perhaps a bit too faithful to the comic without realizing the comic has separate incarnations.
Garth Ennis is the main Punisher writer of the last decade or so and was sited by War Zone director Lexi Alexander as a major influence on the [...]

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Final Crisis, issue one… what a strange book. You’ve got your New Gods, Kamandi, Anthro, some apparent time travel, a couple good guys getting killed, red skies, dissention in the ranks of the Monitors, The Dark Side Club (yes, last week’s Flash is a tie-in of sorts), obscure villains like Libra and the Human Flame (yes, [...]

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You might know Comic Mix as a blog about comic books, science fiction and related pop culture.  What’s less known about Comic Mix, hidden back on the webpage’s third tab, is that it’s essentially First Comics 2.0.  Mike Gold, who was an editor of First, and after the collapse of First, took creators like Mike [...]

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier
By Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
208 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1401203061
Buyer beware, if you pick up The Black Dossier expecting a similar product to the first two volumes of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, you are in for a bit of a jolt, and I’m not sure everyone’s going to like [...]

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Scars
Written by Warren Ellis, Drawn by Jacen Burrows
Avatar Press ISBN 1-59291-018-1 
Warren Ellis is probably best known to the general public as the writer of Transmetropolitan, a satirical series of graphic novels about an outlaw journalist out to bring down a corrupt president in a particularly sordid future.    In a few months he may be more [...]

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  The Interman by Jeff Parker (Octopus, $19.95)
Remember when The Six Million Dollar Man was cool? The first season or two had Steve Austin as a reluctant spy, drawn into a world not of his own choosing, and featured a subtext that debated what the difference between a man and a machine was as he [...]

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