I look at several recent releases, and one old one, to determine what makes a comic scary.

Featuring criminals, lovers, madmen, graphic violence, clever plans, and laugh-out-loud moments throughout the list, and all together in the year's best read.

John and I talk about the winter's BEST superhero movie while I go on about the comics that inspired it.

The stories that inspired the movie aren't bad, even if their defensiveness does them no favors.

(And if anyone's wondering what I thought about the movie, I'll just say that it was fine.)

Does Kodansha's second manga-based anthology from international creators fare any better than its first?

Should I hold out hope that "Gideon Falls" will turn out well after the endings of "Descender" and "Royal City?"

John and I tackle a "Batman" story that does a lot of interesting things, but doesn't really take any of them far enough.

It has its faults, but this series is still a captivating, magical take on the "Beauty and the Beast" setup.

The latest series from Brubaker and Phillips is (unsurprisingly) really good!

The true stories of Andre the Giant, Andy Kaufman, and Tetris make for excellent reading in this graphic novelist's hands.