REVIEW - Final Crisis: Rogues’ Revenge #3

Geoff Johns rebels against Final Crisis in the last issue of this Flash spin-off.

REVIEW: Final Crisis #3 and 4

A comparison of the third and fourth issues of Final Crisis in which we examine how the book is affected by the month-ahead time jump.

REVIEW - Final Crisis: Fiesta

The first issues of Legion of Three Worlds, Revelations, and Superman Beyond are reviewed in this extensive look at the Final Crisis franchise.

REVIEW: Final Crisis: Rogues’ Revenge #2

Superhero comics too have indulged in antihero fiction for several decades now, with both illuminating (Suicide Squad) and despondent (too many to list) results, but in his Final Crisis: Rogues’ Revenge series, Geoff Johns reintegrates the antihero’s noir basis into the superhero genre, and in doing so expands the comic book antihero into a more complex realm.

REVIEW - Final Crisis: Requiem

Peter Tomasi and Doug Mahnke reflect on the importance of the recently-deceased J’onn J’onzz, the Martian Manhunter, in this Final Crisis one-shot.

REVIEW - Final Crisis: Rogues’ Revenge #1

Is there a single DC franchise that’s undergone such a hit in popularity over the past two years than The Flash? Once one of the hottest books in comics, not to mention one of the most consistently strong…

REVIEW: Madame Xanadu #1

Madame Xanadu, by Matt Wagner and Amy Reeder Hadley, is the latest book in a long Vertigo tradition of revising and reimagining overlooked DC characters in a new context. Already possessing ties to both DC’s supernatural contingent and to characters like John Constantine and Timothy Hunter who have been consigned to the opposite side of the Vertigo Wall, Xanadu’s a natural choice for a Vertigo series, and as one of the more complicated, if underutilized, characters in the DC pantheon, she certainly merits it.

REVIEW: Final Crisis #2

Script: Grant Morrison
Art: JG Jones
Colors: Alex Sinclair
Published By: DC Comics
“Ticket to Blüdhaven”
The first issue of Grant Morrison and JG Jones’ Final Crisis was received by comics fans with perhaps the most mixed reviews of any book of the past few years. Most of Morrison’s work tends to be polarizing, however well-respected, but the extremely disorienting, [...]

REVIEW: Manhunter #31

Writer: Marc Andreyko
Artist: Michael Gaydos
Colorist: Jose Villarrubia
Publisher: DC Comics
“Forgotten: Part One”

Marc Andreyko’s Manhunter occupies a rare spot in the comic book canon. There’s been plenty of series that have been considered cult favorites, many with devoted fanbases, but very few books have ever been resurrected from cancellation. Especially impressive is how staggeringly low the odds [...]

REVIEW: Trinity #1 and 2

Writers: Kurt Busiek with Fabian Nicieza
Artists: Mark Bagley with Tom Derenick and Wayne Faucher
Publisher: DC Comics
We’re just beginning the third year in a row of weekly comics from DC, and Kurt Busiek has a lot going against him in his attempt at the format. After the critically-mauled but still commercially-viable Countdown to Final Crisis allowed [...]