‘TMNT: IDW Collection’ Volume 1 (2015) an expert blend of nostalgia, world-building
‘TMNT’ flashback (Comic book review): Tom Waltz’s epic new continuity launches with Issues 1-12 and micro-series Issues 1-5.
Comic Books
‘TMNT Adventures’ branches off from the cartoon in Issues 5-11 (1989-90)
‘TMNT’ flashback (Comic book reviews): The first batch of original Archie stories marks the action figure era – great for kids, not so much for adults.
‘Urban Legends’ (2020) gives long-overdue conclusion to ‘TMNT’ Volume 3
‘TMNT’ flashback (Comic book review): Twenty-one years after Volume 3’s cancellation, Gary Carlson and Frank Fosco miraculously get to finish the story.
Valerian and Laureline start on new path with ‘Where Stories Are Born’ (2022)
Comic book review: “Valerian and Laureline” starts the post-Mezieres era with a suitably fun and ridiculously complex tale from Christin.
PKD’s ‘Breakfast at Twilight’ expands into ‘Nuclear Family’ (2021)
PKD flashback (Comic book review): The five-issue series expands on PKD’s short story in the same way TV’s “Man in the High Castle” builds a world from the novel.
‘Blade Runner: Black Lotus’ finds more life in ‘Leaving L.A.’ (2022)
PKD flashback (Comic book review): Not as stylish as the TV series, the comic continuation at least keeps its focus on replicant heroine Elle.
‘Blade Runner: Origins’ (2021-22) wraps by commenting on inner-city plight
PKD flashback (Comic book review): In Volumes 2 and 3, the writers use an alternate 2009 to explore issues of the real 21st century.
In ‘2029: Redemption’ (2022), has the ‘Blade Runner’ saga reached the singularity?
PKD flashback (Comic book review): In the third and final volume of the “2029” saga, it’s getting very hard to tell humans and replicants apart.
‘Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’ (2000) a super novel about superhero comics
Book club book report: Michael Chabon’s classic about the Jewish-American condition in the 1940s is a Great American Novel.
‘Cry of Thunder’ (2008) has Holmes, Kolchak … and messy plot
‘Kolchak’ flashback (Comic book review): Holmes, Watson and Kolchak are in fine form, but the plot of this three-issue series borders on incomprehensible.