And finally the great journey is over, a journey that consisted mostly of sidetracks and flashbacks and social commentary and religious antagonism. But first ... another mostly ancillary flashback who...

Saying this is better than book four is somewhat akin to saying "throwing up at home is better than throwing up at work": this is better than book four. Instead of dealing with his expectations, assum...

And the downward slide into boringness continues. Continuing what now seems to be a trend of wholly extraneous backstories, we have not one, not two, but three "back when they were young" extended fla...

We seem to be heading for a bit of a slump. After a pair of lengthy, unnecessary backstories, most of which we have already figured out from having read the other issues, the story devolves into what ...

Hey, back on track - there's some story here, which is nice. The opening tale is a rather ludicrous compilation of new supporting characters who collide with our main trio at a Jay Gatsby party direct...

Despite the extraneous nonsense, concerning which Mr. Vaughan is among the more generous in the industry today, this entry moved the story (such as it is) along nicely. One gets the impression Mr. Vau...

Our heroes have split up for diverse reasons, and we benefit greatly from the different directions their personalities and the story travels. Becky has to start to make her own decisions, while also l...

Crossroads is a much simpler story than vol. 1 (it's hard to top having your heroes achieve 5/6 of their goal in the opening storyline), but it gives us something more important than spectacle: depth....

Despite the somewhat stilted narrative style for much of this initial volume, The Sixth Gun is basically "my kind of horror" - and since "my kind of horror" consists mainly of Abbot and Costello Meet ...

I'm pretty sure I get it, so before you teach me a verbal lesson, let's just acknowledge up front I'm pretty sure I get what Mr. Ennis was about. Considering I'm in the opposite camp of his intended a...

I'll say one thing for Mr. Vaughan: he can come up with some pretty engaging ideas. His execution of them, though, leaves for me much to be desired - though, perhaps more accurately, "much less" to be...

Well, that wasn't much good. After a decent effort from Mr. Lobdell in volume three, trying to give some sense of direction and stability to a title that seems to exist simply because DC wants it to e...

I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but this series would have been more successful if it ended at the conclusion of the first collection. This series continue to make no sense, riding solely on the di...

Some moments are pretty good, especially in contrast to most of the other New 52 palaver, but on the whole that isn't saying much. This collection has potential, especially with so much Lana Lang invo...

It's been a little while since I've played Arkham City, I admit, but I'm pretty sure this story has nothing to do with the game except for like one poster on some side street that mentions the Bookbin...

Yup. That went as fast to Nowhere Meaningful as we all imagined it would. The soul-crushing Man-Bat saga gets yet another painfully incompetent entry; hopefully this will be the last. Apparently takin...

Out from the glow of Grant Morrison's arc comes what's next: a totally new direction, which is obviously the way to go. Unfortunately, the direction chosen was Confusion. Sure, Morrison's timeline is ...

As Tom or Crow might say, "there was a writer?" I don't mean any personal effrontery to Mr. Pak; I'm sure as a human being he is swell. However, this was some fairy-tale art supported by no story wha...

This really isn't what you could call "good." Mr. Layman (whose credentials are immediate grounds for trepidancy) does at least wrap up the earlier storyline before branching out on his own, but his w...