The Book Review: The Amazing Spider-Man: Coming Home
By Alex Dueben
J Michael Straczynski may have stirred up controversy with his most recent work on SPIDER-MAN, but back on his first arc, he and John Romita Jr demonstrated a fine understanding of the character of Peter Parker.

The Book Review: Green Arrow: The Archer's Quest
By Alex Dueben
Before stirring up controversy with IDENTITY CRISIS, novelist Brad Meltzer made his comics debut with a run on GREEN ARROW with artists Phil Hester and Ande Parks. Ninth Art asks, does this ARROW hit the target?

The Book Review: Courtney Crumrin
By Zack Smith
If you go into the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise - but it's not the twilight, the mystics or the night things you have to worry about; it's a little girl named Courtney Crumrin. She's very, very good. And she's horrid.

The Book Review: The Best Of Ray Bradbury
By Zack Smith
Ray Bradbury is one of the masters of fantasy and sci-fi, so it's no surprise that some of his 500 works have made the leap to comics. IBooks brings together some of the best, with contributions from Chiarello, Mignola, Russell and Van Fleet.

The Book Review: Stray Bullets: Somewhere Out West
By Zack Smith
August is the perfect time to a trip to the seaside, but David Lapham's Seaside is like no holiday town you've ever seen. Ninth Art trades cotton candy for crime fiction as it heads SOMEWHERE OUT WEST.

The Book Review: Human Target: Strike Zones
By Rob Cave
Vertigo is the home of the conceptual makeover, and Peter Milligan is the past master when it comes to stories about identity. Put the two together, and can they turn an old action comic into a sophisticated high-concept series?

The Book Review: Mother, Come Home
By John Parker
Paul Hornschemeier established himself in the independents with the experimental SEQUENTIAL. Now the debut graphic novel from his FORLORN FUNNIES series looks set to place a spotlight on his extraordinary creativity.

The Book Review: Criminal Macabre
By Alex Dueben
Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith followed up on their hit vampire series 30 DAYS OF NIGHT with the first of their Cal McDonald hard-boiled horror stories, CRIMINAL MACABRE. Ninth Art succumbs to the darkness.

The Book Review: Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron
By Jake Mix
Daniel Clowes' surreal and disturbing tale of fetishistic perversion may not make a lot of sense, but does it have any meaning? Ninth Art peels back the glove to get beneath the skin of the EIGHTBALL classic.

The Friday Review: The Losers: Ante Up
By Brent Keane
Giving a dormant DC action-adventure trademark to a relatively unknown creative team may have been a gamble for Vertigo, but when the chips were down, these guys were definitely ready.

Older reviews