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Bob's Comic Book Blog: ABSOLUTE POWER #1

DC's big summer event this year is Absolute Power . The basic premise is that Amanda Waller, the head of the Suicide Squad, decides to...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #50

After reading the latest The Amazing Spider-Man #50 , I was curious how many #50's there have been. The first one was published in Oct...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: BLOOD HUNT #1

Blood Hunt  is Marvel's big event book this year. It's basically if vampires took over the world. The last page reveal in #1 has the l...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: WOLVERINE #41

"Sabretooth War" Part 1     I remember reading the first few issues of this series. Considering I stopped reading it, I'm guessing it wasn...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: The Best Art of 2023: MARCOS MARTIN & MUNTSA VICENTE "FRIDAY"

I think back to the "glory" years of reading comics in my youth, back when the artists were king. Al...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: The Best Pages & Panels of 2023

Daredevil #16                                                                                                                               ...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: The Best Covers of 2023

Bob's Comic Book Blog: The Best Writer of 2023: ED BRUBAKER

Ed Brubaker only wrote two issues of Friday , the Night Fever  hardcover, and the Where the Body Was  hardcover. Maybe  if he was a ty...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: The Best Comic Book of 2023: WHERE THE BODY WAS

I was reading Where the Body Was , Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' latest graphic novel, on my Ipad when the power went out a few weeks...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: WONDER WOMAN #1

Tom King hasn't written an ongoing comic since he was fired from Batman  in 2019. He's still all over the place at DC, though he's mos...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: KNIGHT TERRORS #4

Knight Terrors  is DC's big summer event this year. I don't think Marvel has a big event this year, which is strange. Marvel does  do ...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: READING THE CLASSICS: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #251

Published on April 1st, 1984     This ends the original Hobgoblin storyline. The shocking thing about this is that the identity of The Hob...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: The Best Artists of 2022: MATTEUS LOPES & MATTIAS BERGARA

I'm a big fan of writer Si Spurrier, but even I didn't agree with his decision to write a book with no words except for a little bit of...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: The Best Writer of 2022: ED BRUBAKER

Writer Ed Brubaker put out the same number of books he did in 2021: three issues of the online, pay-what-you-want Friday , and two ful...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: The Best Covers of 2022

Bob's Comic Book Blog: The Best Comic Book of 2022: WHAT'S THE FURTHEST PLACE FROM HERE?

Writer Matthew Rosenberg and artist Tyler Boss made 4 Kids Walk into a Bank , my favorite comic of 2016, so it's not too much of a surp...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: Best Pages & Panels of 2022

Batman: Beyond the White Knight #2 Clean #4 Batman: Beyond the White Knight #5 Groo: Gods Against Groo #1

Bob's Comic Book Blog: The Best Cover of 2021: POST AMERICANA #3

Bob's Comic Book Blog: READING THE CLASSICS: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #250

Published on March 1st, 1984     The big #250 issue wasn't even double or triple size or anything. And nothing really "big" happened in it...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: DETECTIVE COMICS #1049

The Tower Part 3 of 12     Writer Mariko Tamaki and artist Ivan Reiss are back to do this issue. That's a surprise. I'm curious how long we'...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: DETECTIVE COMICS #1050

The Tower Part 4 of 12      Damn...1,050 issues. That has  to be a record, right? Or is there, perhaps, some manga that's gone longer than t...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: DETECTIVE COMICS #1055

The Tower Part 9 of 12     Finally this book is heating up. Sadly, though, the action involves Mr. Freeze firing his freeze gun at Huntress ...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: BATMAN #118

When writer Tom King was fired from Batman , I swore that Brian Bendis would eventually be the new writer. I'm not sure what happened,...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: DETECTIVE COMICS #1053

The Tower Part 7 of 12     The climax of this issue has Nightwing sneaking into an off limits room at Arkham Tower only to find Psycho Pirat...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: The Best Writer of 2021: ED BRUBAKER

Nothing changes, apparently. Ed Brubaker won Best Writer of 2020 by writing two issues of Friday , his college girl noir detective ser...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: The Best Comic Book of 2021: THE NICE HOUSE ON THE LAKE

Kind of surprising that writer James Tynion IV wins the Best Book of the Year in back to back years (his book Something is Killing the...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: READING THE CLASSICS: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #244

Published on September 1st, 1983     I'm not sure if every comic book back in the good old days felt like a soap opera...but this book cer...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: READING THE CLASSICS: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #239

Published on April 1st, 1983     This is the second part of the original Hobgoblin story. I'm not sure how many Hobgoblins there have been...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: The Best Artists of 2021: DAVID FINCH & DAVE McCAIG

I remember when David Finch jumped from Marvel to DC and it was this huge deal. Now, Finch doesn't even draw a monthly book anymore. T...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: DEVIL'S REIGN #1

For years now, Daredevil  has been consistently Marvel's best book. The reason is fairly obvious: Marvel puts great writers on Daredev...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: READING THE CLASSICS: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #245

Published on October 1st, 1983     All of these issues of 1983's The Amazing Spider-Man  have been published on the 1st of the month. Was ...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: DETECTIVE COMICS #1052

The Tower Part 6 of 12     I'm starting to think that 12 parts to tell this story is too long. This issue, as the last couple have been, fee...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: DETECTIVE COMICS #1048

The Tower Part 2 of 12     This issue, like Part 1, is written by Mariko Tamaki and drawn by Ivan Reiss. I wonder how many issues Reiss is g...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: READING THE CLASSICS: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #238

Published on March 1st, 1983     Zeb Wells is writing The Amazing Spider-Man  these days, and he just started a new arc featuring The Hobg...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: DETECTIVE COMICS #1058

The Tower Part 12 of 12     Weird, but I didn't realize that everything pretty much ended in Part 11 last week and this issue is, sadly, jus...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: DETECTIVE COMICS #1047

The Tower Part 1 of 12     This is the first part of a weekly 12 part story called "The Tower." It's weird that it's called that, though, si...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #80: "BEYOND" CHAPTER 6

Nick Spencer left The Amazing Spider-Man  to go work at Substack, the online newsletter site that somehow has seemingly billions of do...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: DETECTIVE COMICS #1051

The Tower Part 5 of 12     I haven't mentioned the covers for this event book yet. They've all been painted covers usually dealing with Arkh...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: DETECTIVE COMICS #1054

The Tower Part 8 of 12     What a horrible cover. I actually really liked the last cover, the one with Penguin. This one is Batman's mask. U...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: DETECTIVE COMICS #1057

The Tower Part 11 of 12     Sadly, this book never "got better." The first issue was great. Then when the action started the book got worse....