I spent last week in Pittsburgh. You may have heard. Before I went, though, I asked for some suggestions for comics to read on the plane there and on the flight home. Here's what I came up with.

Everything But Imaginary #205: Taking My Comics Back Home

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Book 6: Infinite Crisis
Writer: Greg Cox
Genre: Superhero/Novelization
Number of pages: 384
Read This Year: 1563
My rating of the book, F- [worst] to A [best]: B

Short description/summary of the book: from Amazon
For years, the rift between the Justice League's leaders has been widening. Batman's paranoia has given birth to an army of robotic assassins. ( Read more... )

A few new Comixtreme.com reviews for you today, guys. Hope you enjoy:

Carl Barks' Greatest DuckTales Stories Vol. 2 (Very Good) -- A must-own for fans of the TV show.
Exiles #84 (Good) -- Tony Bedard's run is extended.
Crisis Aftermath: The Spectre #3 (Great) -- I'm loving the new Spectre, and can't wait to see what they do with him next.
Walt Disney's ( Read more... )

Superman week continues at the Back Issue Bin! Today's installment is one of the comics that accompanied the 2004 Superman relaunch...

Originally Presented at Comixtreme.com

Quick Rating: Very Good
Title: Battery Part One

On Clark’s first day covering the Daily Planet crime beat, a new threat rears its head.


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So last week the New York Times released just about everything one could possibly want to know about the new Batwoman. Am I the only one who wishes they had just kept their mouths shut so I could learn it in the course of the story? Am I the only one who misses the element of surprise?

Everything But Imaginary #166: Surprise Me! Please!


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Before he left to go back to Baton Rouge yesterday, my brother asked that somebody working on my sister's soon-to-be home, the "Love Shack," get some pictures as the construction continued. I think he just wanted to prove to his wife, Kayla, that we're actually crazy enough to build something like this in my parents' back yard. Well, we are, and ( Read more... )

So last week, after two years of building a slam-bang miniseries, DC Comics’ Infinite Crisis has finally come to an end. All the “i”s were dotted, all the “t”s crossed and all the questions answered, right?

Well… no, of course not. Where would the fun be in that? As great a story as it was, Infinite Crisis left a lot of questions up in the air, ( Read more... )

So Infinite Crisis is over, but there's still a lot of goodness coming down the pike from DC. Tomorrow marks the first issue of 52, the WEEKLY new series that will examine, in realtime, the year following the cataclysmic events of that storyline. Plus I spent most of the afternoon working on tomorrow's Everything But Imaginary column all about the ( Read more... )

Hey, all -- if you didn't catch it last week, over at Comixtreme we've got another Deconstructing column for you...

Deconstructing Infinite Crisis #5.

And while I was at it, I reviewed the issue itself...

Infinite Crisis #5 Review (Very Good

And then I jumped in and did the advance reviews for this week's DC/Vertigo/Wildstorm titles...

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With everything that's happening in DC Comics right now, I thought it would be worthwhile to use this week's Everything But Imaginary column to do a rundown of the most significant versions of the character, how they're being used right now and -- most importantly -- why Superman matters, because let's face it, there are too many people out there ( Read more... )