Comic Review: Dr. Thirteen: Architecture and Mortality TPB

Dr. Thirteen: Architecture and Mortality TPB
Written by Brian Azzarello
Art by Cliff Chiang
DC Comics
Cover Price $14.99; Available Now

A skeptic, a witch, a ghost, a vampire, a pirate, a Legionnaire, a cave man, a boy genius, and a Nazi gorilla, thrown in a story dealing with the creators of the DC universe and the current state of comics. If you’re looking for a fun comic with lots of action, some great characters, with a lot of humorous dialog, then this is definitely the book for you. I have to say that if DC announced they were releasing a Dr. Thirteen series written by Brian Azzarello, I’d be right there to pick it up...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!

Comic Review: 100 Bullets Vol. 11

100 Bullets Vol. 11: Once Upon a Crime
Written by Brian Azzarello
Art by Eduardo Risso
Cover by Dave Johnson
DC Comics/Vertigo
Cover Price $12.99; On sale: Aug 2007

100 Bullets remains one of the most intriguing and thought provoking series being published today. The series started as a simple morality play, but has transformed itself into a deep mystery series, with a heavy film noir feel. As new characters have been introduced the mystery of the series has gotten deeper and more intricate. The only problem is that the mystery has gone on for maybe too long, and the series may have gotten too far away from its initial premise. The newest trade doesn’t help much, as one of the big plot points of the whole series is examined and explained, but the plot mostly just turns its wheels, and a big character death is made less important by the surrounding events...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!