The Cross Bronx Volume 11 review Michael Avon Oeming, Ivan Brandon Image Comics, 2007 Money spent better on other comics. Good illustrations and colors, below average writing. I came across this trade and decided to purchase it based on the plot outline. Wasn't the worst comic book I ever purchased, but it is one I could have lived without. While I am not a big fan of the supernatural stories this one sounded ...             Gotham Central Vol. 2: Half a Life (Batman)5 reviews Greg Rucka DC Comics, 2005 An Excellent Read + DC needs more books like this + Just Twisted Enough to Be Gotham + WOW + DO NOT MISS THIS BOOK!!             Criminal Vol. 2: Lawless5 reviews Ed Brubaker Marvel Comics, 2007 Noir at its bleakest and most beautiful. + A Thrilling Walk On The Dark Side + Another Brubaker/Phillips success + Ed Brubaker delivers another great crime story. + Fantastic series from A creative team that loves noir.             Jinx: The Definitive Collection9 reviews Brian Michael Bendis Image Comics, 2001 One of the Greatest Black and White Comics Ever Published + Great writing; xeroxography is weird There is a scene in JINX (and this gives nothing away) in which writer/artist Brian Michael Bendis deviates from the plot to show us people in an arcade talking. These aren't central characters - a few of them are walk-ons to The Story, and some of them are extras who are hardly seen again. Very ...             Criminal Vol. 1: Coward11 reviews Ed Brubaker Marvel Comics, 2007 Noir Scored With A Triphammer Heartbeat + Coward puts crime comics back on the map! + Brubaker and Phillips make a great team + Great book             Gotham Central Vol. 3: Unresolved Targets (Batman)1 review Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker DC Comics, 2006 Chandleresque, Gritty, and Beautifully Bleak This series is so wonderfully bleak its almost uplifting. I like the idea of a side-bar story of everyone else in Gotham, and I thought I would miss the long underwear guy, but actually I got caught up in all the noir atmosphere. The 'look' of the book echoes the recent Daredevil, in that grey area ...             Gotham Central Vol. 1: In the Line of Duty (Batman)7 reviews Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker DC Comics, 2004 A fascinating graphic novel + Brubaker/Rucka 2003 TPB about the GCPD and Batman + Police Procedural in a Superworld + Gotham City From a Fresh Perspective             Gotham Central Vol. 4: The Quick and the Dead (Batman)2 reviews Greg Rucka DC Comics, 2006 A great read... crime fiction meets the superhero set + Good Cops in a Bad Land Another fine entry in this compelling series set in the gritty underbelly of Batman's Gotham City. The plot increasingly focusses on Det. Rene Montoya, which is fine by me (although I'm waiting for her partner, Crispus Allen, to come out of the box a bit more...) Author Greg Rucka's debt to ...             Powers: The Definitive Hardcover Collection, Vol. 1 (Marvel Comics)9 reviews Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Avon Oeming Marvel Comics, 2006 Most amazing extras ever collected. + GREAT HARDCOVER COLLECTION! + Worth it's weight in gold + Great comic!             Daredevil Vol. 4: Underboss7 reviews Brian Michael Bendis Marvel Comics, 2004 Bendis and Maleev excel. + A brilliant start to the Bendis/Maleev run on Daredevil + The Entire Daredevil Mythos Pivots On This Excellent Arc + An addictive story + Daredevil at its grittiest, most entertaining             Fell Vol. 1: Feral City18 reviews Warren Ellis Image Comics, 2007 the Stephen King of Comics + Brilliant + Magnificient + Most Original Crime Fiction besides 100 Bullets + One thing to add...             Astro City: The Tarnished Angel19 reviews Kurt Busiek DC Comics, 2000 Astro City, A City Worth a Visit + The world of a world-weary super-guy + Another great Astro City story + Great comic book + Astro City: Where Redemption and Love Are Tough as Steel and Just as Lasting             Torso: A True Crime Graphic Novel14 reviews Brian Michael Bendis Image Comics, 2001 My first Bendis, Won't be my Last! + 1930s Serial Killer Stalks Cleveland + Very Good. Well Paced and Reads Likea A Novel I've heard good things about Brian Michael Bendis and finally got around to reading one of his works. Torso is a graphic novel that tells the true-crime story of a 1930s serial killer at work in Cleveland, Ohio, who leaves mutilated bodies around town with feet, hands and heads removed. At the ...             Miss: Better Living Through Crime (Miss)1 review Philippe Thirault Humanoids - Rebellion, 2005 Oustanding Crime Graphic Novel New York's interwar crime demimonde has been richly treated in fiction and film, and now we can finally add a worthy graphic novel to that list. Set in the 1920s and '30s, it's somewhat surprising to discover that such a stylish story was written and produced by three Frenchmen. Surprising until ...             Gotham Central Vol. 5: Dead Robin (Batman)2 reviews Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker DC Comics, 2007 The series ends with a bang + Fantastic! "Gotham Central", volume 5, spans issues #33-40 and (sadly) ends the series with a pair of fine stories... A tepid mystery involving the murder of two Robin lookalikes serves as the backdrop for the real drama -- inside the squadroom -- and in particular the descent of Detective Renee Montoya into ...             Goldfish8 reviews Brian Michael Bendis Image Comics, 2001 Great crime comic This is a really great book with really likable characters, and although the plot is already really well tread, Bendis makes it a really fun read.             Goldfish8 reviews Brian Michael Bendis Image Comics, 2001 Great crime comic This is a really great book with really likable characters, and although the plot is already really well tread, Bendis makes it a really fun read.             Jinx: The Definitive Collection9 reviews Brian Michael Bendis Image Comics, 2001 One of the Greatest Black and White Comics Ever Published + Great writing; xeroxography is weird There is a scene in JINX (and this gives nothing away) in which writer/artist Brian Michael Bendis deviates from the plot to show us people in an arcade talking. These aren't central characters - a few of them are walk-ons to The Story, and some of them are extras who are hardly seen again. Very ...             Miss: Better Living Through Crime (Miss)1 review Philippe Thirault Humanoids - Rebellion, 2005 Oustanding Crime Graphic Novel New York's interwar crime demimonde has been richly treated in fiction and film, and now we can finally add a worthy graphic novel to that list. Set in the 1920s and '30s, it's somewhat surprising to discover that such a stylish story was written and produced by three Frenchmen. Surprising until ...             Gotham Central Vol. 4: The Quick and the Dead (Batman)2 reviews Greg Rucka DC Comics, 2006 A great read... crime fiction meets the superhero set + Good Cops in a Bad Land Another fine entry in this compelling series set in the gritty underbelly of Batman's Gotham City. The plot increasingly focusses on Det. Rene Montoya, which is fine by me (although I'm waiting for her partner, Crispus Allen, to come out of the box a bit more...) Author Greg Rucka's debt to ...