Pulp With A (Bad) Twist: The Spider #8 Review
For most people, when they think about pulp fiction, they think about period pieces. They picture men in tailored clothing driving vintage Packards, going from swanky cocktail party to party, pausing...
View ArticleYou’ve Gotta Keep The Devil Way Down In The Hole: Red Team #1 Review
When it comes to comic books by Garth Ennis, sometimes it feels like a coin toss as to which writer you’re gonna get: the writer with a laser focus on the behaviors and traditions of regimented...
View ArticleStinger: The Green Hornet #1 Review
Editor’s Note: While we might normally report on a piece or two of comics news this late in the evening, it is April Fool’s Day, and we don’t believe a single Goddamned thing we read on any news site...
View ArticleMaking The Saving Throw: Pathfinder #7 Review
Dear Dynamite Comics: please reconsider the font you use to number issues. With God as my witness, I thought Pathfinder #7 was actually a #1. It’s the only reason I bought it. Because normally I would...
View ArticleZombiebusters: The Mocking Dead #1 Review
Mahatma Gandhi once said about fighting The Man: ” First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” And that’s a fine addage to remember when you’re being hosed down...
View ArticleThe Present Ain’t What It Used To Be: The Shadow Now #1 Review
Editor’s Note: Who knows what spoilers lurk in the hearts of men? Oh, I’ve used that one before? Well, I’ll email you a full refund. Back in the mid-1980s, Howard Chaykin rebooted The Shadow for the...
View ArticleEvil Lurking In The Heart Of The Devil: Dynamite And Dark Horse Announce Matt...
Since taking over The Shadow license, Dynamite Comics has come out with what seems like a Bakers Dozen worth of Shadow titles, some good, some only okay. And I have taken or left them on a...
View ArticleSomething For Everyone – Review Of Grimm #8
Comic series that are adaptations of other properties can be hit or miss. One of the first comic books I remember getting as a kid was the four issue mini-series based on Raiders Of The Lost Ark. I...
View ArticleFlickum Bicus: Dresden Files War Cry Announced
It might be hard to believe, given that we are big enough comic book fans here at Crisis On Infinite Midlives that we started a Website that is dedicated to comics, but we are, in fact, capable of...
View ArticleBack To The Future Again: Warren Ellis Rebooting Dynamite’s Project Superpowers
Here at the Crisis On Infinite Midlives Home Office, we are some Warren Ellis fans. Back in 2000, when watching Unbreakable led me to leave a several-year Vertigo Comics exile to delve back into...
View ArticleTerminator / Robocop: Kill Human #2 – No Directives Found
Back in 1992, Frank Miller and Walt Simonson did a four-issue miniseries for Dark Horse Comics called Robocop Vs. Terminator, where Robocop singlehandedly takes on Skynet for the future of mankind. It...
View ArticleCrisis On Infinite Midlives Podcast Episode 2: The Knockers Of Justice
We bought some more bourbon, which means here’s another exciting episode of the Crisis On Infinite Midlives Podcast! Why “The Knockers Of Justice”? There’s actually a reason this time, and it’s...
View ArticleWe Can Rebuild Him: The Bionic Man #2 Review
And, as is becoming a tradition, one final quick review from last week before the comic stores open for New Comics Day… “I know Steve Austin is going away… but I’ll never forget him.” That, as my...
View ArticleJesusfall, or: Apocalypse, or: LEONARD BERNSTEIN
The Aztec calendar says that the apocalypse happens next year, but the fact that yet another issue of Catwoman has found it’s way into another week’s new comics take… …possibly means the premature 2011...
View ArticleThere Will Be Trouble: Robocop: Road Trip #1 Review
EDITOR’S NOTE: This review’s Prime Directives: Serve the public trust. Protect the innocent. Spoil the book. Dear Marvel Comics: please hire Rob Williams back. His work on Daken: Dark Wolverine was...
View ArticleWho Knows What Evil Lurks In The Pants of Men? Dynamite Reprinting Chaykin’s...
Howard Chaykin’s reboot of The Shadow for DC Comics back in 1987 tends to be overshadowed (Get it?) by other stuff around the same time period, including The Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen, and...
View ArticleDelayed Gratification: The Boys #63 Review
EDITOR’S NOTE: Crisis On Infinite Midlives is proud to provide you with one final review from last week’s books before the comic store opens up with the new books. You, however, will have to provide...
View ArticleBroad Stroking: Lord of The Jungle #2 Review
It’s kinda hard to review Lord of The Jungle because, like much of Generation X, I don’t have much of a relationship with the character of Tarzan. The Johnny Weismuller flicks were well before my time....
View ArticleYellow Peril: The Shadow: The Fire of Creation #1 Review
Garth Ennis’s The Shadow does many things effectively, including presenting an interesting “modern” characterization of the title character (considering, unlike Howard Chaykin’s 1980s reboot for DC...
View ArticleMissed Landing: The Bionic Man #11 Review
When I was six or seven years old, I had a Power Records LP… (Note to Generation Y: “LP” stands for “long playing record.” It was a big piece of vinyl that sounds were recorded on. Think a CD, only […]...
View ArticlePeter Cannon, Human Centipede: Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt #1 Review
Here’s one of two things what I knew about the character Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt before I picked up the new Dynamite Comics first issue of his new book: he was the only Charlton superhero that DC...
View ArticleBastard To The Last: The Boys #71 Review
EDITOR’S NOTE: In a world where costumed heroes soar through the sky and masked vigilantes prowl the night, someone’s got to make sure the “spoilers” don’t get out of line. And someone will. I’ve read...
View ArticleNostalgia Ain’t What It Used To Be: The Bionic Man Vs. The Bionic Woman #1...
As someone who was young enough to have the battery of Six Million Dollar Man toys as a kid – somewhere there exists an eight-track recording of me squealing with glee over my Maskatron Christmas gift...
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