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Bob's Comic Book Blog: READING THE CLASSICS: BATMAN #616

Published on June 25th, 2003     It's pretty crazy that the sequel to this storyline didn't come out until this year. It was popular and a...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: READING THE CLASSICS: BATMAN #615

Published on May 28th, 2003     Tommy Elliot's funeral opens this issue. As usual, since this storyline is basically Batman's greatest hits,...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: READING THE CLASSICS: BATMAN #614

Published on April 30th, 2003     The cover to this issue is pretty cool. It has Batman choking The Joker in close-up. There isn't much to...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: READING THE CLASSICS: BATMAN #613

Published on March 26th, 2003     This is part 6 of the 12 part "Hush" storyline. I mentioned previously that this storyline was showcasin...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: READING THE CLASSICS: BATMAN #612

Published on February 26th, 2003     The new Superman movie comes out this week, so I guess it's apt that Superman appears in this issue. ...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: READING THE CLASSICS: BATMAN #611

Published on March 10th, 2003     The first three issues of this "Hush" storyline came out on time, in October, November, and December of 20...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: READING THE CLASSICS: BATMAN #610

Published on December 22nd, 2002     This storyline is about Hush, a new villain in the Batman universe, yet here we are in part 3 and he ...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: READING THE CLASSICS: BATMAN #609

Published on November 27th, 2002     This "Hush" storyline only runs 12 issues, and not a lot must happen in it because the plot is moving a...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: READING THE CLASSICS: BATMAN #608

Published on October 23rd, 2002 Cover Price: $2.25     This year, DC is doing a Batman "Hush" sequel in the main title, starting with #158 (...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: The Best Cover of 2024: SOMETHING IS KILLING THE CHILDREN #37

Bob's Comic Book Blog: The Best Art of 2024: SEAN MURPHY & SIMON GOUGH "ZORRO: MAN OF THE DEAD"

I awarded the best art of 2017 to Sean Murphy's Batman: White Knight , so it's really no surprise that his art for Zorro: Man of the D...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: The Best Pages & Panels of 2024

ALIENS VS. AVENGERS #1 VOID RIVALS #8 WHAT'S THE FURTHEST PLACE FROM HERE? #20 ZORRO: MAN OF THE DEAD #3

Bob's Comic Book Blog: The Best Writer of 2024: JONATHAN HICKMAN

The Amazing Spider-Man , Marvel's flagship book forever, hasn't been that good in a very, very long time. When you read the old, c...

Bob's Comic Book Blog: THE BEST COMIC BOOK OF 2024: "WHAT'S THE FURTHEST PLACE FROM HERE?"

My favorite comic books of the year included Absolute Batman , Ultimate Spider-Man , and Saga . But the best book of the year, and a co...

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: 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 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 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 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: The Best Covers of 2022

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: 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: 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 #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: 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: 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 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: 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...