History of Comic Books Podcast

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Sleeper" by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips, their brilliant 24 issue series from the early 2000's that mixed deep cover crime noir with superhero comics.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Point Blank" by Ed Brubaker & Collin Wilson, in which Cole Cash/The Grifter searches for who put his former Team 7 member, John Lynch, in a coma, with some surprises along the way.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Powers: Who Killed Retro Girl?" Vol. 1 by Brian Michael Bendis & Michael Avon Oeming, the beginning of this iconic series about police detectives whose job it is to investigate superheroes.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "The Other Side", the Vietnam War comic by Jason Aaron and Cameron Stewart.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Holiday Knights" from the "The New Batman Adventures", another classic Batman Christmas special.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Christmas With The Joker", the second episode of the classic "Batman: The Animated Series" that was not only the debut of Mark Hamill as the Joker but also a fun Christmas special.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Iron Man 3", the 2013 Marvel film written and directed by Shane Black, so it naturally had a Christmas flavor.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Batman Returns", the 1992 movie that, since set during Christmas, makes a fun, Christmas comic book movie.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Sin City: Silent Night", his Nov. 1995 one-shot in which Marv, one of his many anti-heroes of Sin City, decides to do some good on Christmas Eve but in his own way.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Sin City: That Yellow Bastard" by Frank Miller, his 1996 mini-series that is arguably the last great one in the franchise.

And now a rambling and too brief review of Frank Miller's "Sin City: The Big Fat Kill", his third volume in his "Sin City" series that finds Dwight having to defend Old Town from outside invaders.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For", Frank Miller's follow-up to "The Hard Goodbye" to truly fleshes out this crime noir world in probably its best story ever.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Sin City: The Hard Goodbye" by Frank Miller, his introduction to his classic crime noir series that is simply Miller at his pursest.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Blade II", once again starring Wesley Snipes but also directed by Guillmero Del Toro, which provided his first big break into Hollywood.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Blade", the 1998 movie adaptation of the classic Marvel character that not only was the first successful Marvel movie but a pretty good vampire film to boot.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Tomb of Dracula", the classic 1970's horror comic from Marvel that not only made Dracula a Marvel villain but introduced other classic characters like Blade.

And now a rambling and to brief review of the "Vault of Horror" horror comic from EC Comics, one of the many classic horror anthology series the company produced in the 1950's.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Runaways" by Brian K. Vaughan & Adrian Alphona, which answers the questions of what would happen if you found out your parents were super villians.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "The Rocketeer: Complete Adventures" by the late, great Dave Stevens, his classic send up to the pulp heroes of the 1930's and 40's.

And now rambling and too brief of "The Complete Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi, a fantastic autobiography about it was like to be a girl growing up during the Iranian Revolution.

And now a rambling and brief review of "Teen Titans: The Judas Contract" by Marv Wolfman & George Perez, the classic story in which the Titans must deal with a traitor in their midst.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Milk & Cheese" by Evan Dorkin, his hilarious comic strip about a rampaging carton of milk and slice of cheese that ran from 1989 to 2010.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Invincible" by Robert Kirkman & Corey Walker, their brilliant take on what happens when the teenage son of a superhero develops powers of his own.  

And now a rambling and too brief review of Darwyn Cooke's final adaptation of Richard Stark's classic Parker series.

And now a rambling review of "The Score" by Richard Stark & Darwyn Cooke, Cooke's classic adaptation of of Stark's crime novel as the criminal Parker joins a crew to rob a whole mining town, only for things to naturally not go as planned.