Batman: Sword of Azrael was hyped to the heavens by Wizard Magazine in 1994. After DC had announced the Knightfall story arc, which culminated with Bane breaking Batman’s back, Wizard (with DC’s prodding) was speculating about Bruce Wayne’s replacement. It … Continue reading
Real simple: Frank Miller’s Batman: Year One story arc ranks as one of the best comic book stories of all time. You gotta love DC back in 1987: Batman’s post-Crisis origin was retold in his regular series (Batman 404-407) as … Continue reading
FLASHPOINT REVIEW: I admit that I did not read FLASHPOINT until the event completed. My buddy dropped off all 61 crossover issues and I was so engrossed with them I read them all in around 3-4 days. Plotwise, FLASHPOINT is … Continue reading
All of DC Comics are being rebooted to #1 in September 2011. DC hyped this up as the mother of all events and Editor in Chief Dan DiDio and Jim Lee truly were optimistic about DC’s New 52 at the … Continue reading
Action Comics Complete Collection review: Action Comics is clearly the #2 “Super” book. So many major events happened in Superman’s namesake flagship title as opposed to Action Comics. This was disappointing. Like virtually all modern day comics, the late 1980s … Continue reading
Xombi 2011 Review: Received this e-mail last week- Hey, how’s it going? I’m a huge fan of Bad Dreams’ comic reviews. I was wondering if you could review the first issue of Xombi that comes out this Wednesday, or in … Continue reading
Action Comics #500 is an underrated milestone in the comic book collecting market and DC history. It was the first comic book to hit its 500th issue and the contents of the story lived up to the anniversary. Action Comics #500 has … Continue reading
Frank Miller’s 1986 The Dark Knight Returns is one of the most influential, important, and enjoyable comic book series of all time. When it first came out, I was awestruck by an old version of Batman in his “final case” … Continue reading
Mark Waid and Barry Kitson’s 2000-2004 Empire mini-series blew my socks off when I first read it, and I had read it three times since them. Empire holds up each time. The premise is one that could never work in … Continue reading
The Man of Steel limited series (especially issue #1), was at one point the highest selling comic book of all time. I remember media outlets had a field day with John Byrne and DC rebooting Superman. Taken in context, the … Continue reading
