Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Nov 26, 2009, 8:02 am
It seems the best of times and the worst of times for the Justice League of America title. In Second Coming, writer Dwayne McDuffie presents a Justice League tale that is interesting and well-steeped...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Nov 23, 2009, 8:02 am
[Contains spoilers for Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds.] As should come as no surprise, Geoff Johns and George Perez's Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds is a big book of caped and costume...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Nov 19, 2009, 8:02 am
The Collected Editions blog is back again with our picks for this year's top ten ideas for trade paperback presents for the comic book lover, fan, or collector in your life. Last year we offered ...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Nov 18, 2009, 12:34 pm
We now have details on the contents of all seven (yes, seven) Blackest Night collections to be released by DC Comics next summer. The news that Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps will be collected...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Nov 16, 2009, 8:02 am
I like Dan Jurgens' writing, don't get me wrong. Not only did he pen stories from one of my favorite eras of Superman (and that's before Death of Superman, but also I've dug his Tange...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Nov 12, 2009, 8:31 am
Now that we're beginning to see some of the shape of how Blackest Night will be collected in trade, I thought it would be interesting to compare the collections with those of the most recent previ...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Nov 9, 2009, 8:02 am
[This review comes from Collected Editions reader David Tobin] Ocean is a 2004 series from writer Warren Ellis and Chris Sprouse released under the Wildstorm banner. Set one hundred years in the futu...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Nov 5, 2009, 8:02 am
Don't get me wrong -- Superman: New Krypton is good comics. Whether this second volume is good Superman is debatable, as is the question of whether this seemingly quite decompressed storyline cou...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Nov 4, 2009, 3:05 pm
Eagle-eyed Collected Editions blog reader Chris Hilker just pointed out a bunch more Blackest Night hardcover trade collections now solicited. To wit: - Blackest Night: Rise of the Black Lanterns, b...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Nov 2, 2009, 11:47 am
The DC Comics trade paperback solicitations for 2010 keep rolling out, with these new graphic novels for the upcoming summer. Some interesting first release hardcovers and paperbacks, but also some s...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Nov 2, 2009, 8:02 am
A week or so ago we looked at Dan Jurgens' Tangent: Superman's Reign, and in contrast here's Booster Gold: Reality Lost with art by Jurgens and writing by Jurgens and Chuck Dixon. This vo...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Oct 29, 2009, 8:02 am
[This review comes from Collected Editions contributor Derek Roper] There is this house, see, and it has had its fair share of occupants; a drifter and more recently a group of six mercenaries. But b...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Oct 26, 2009, 8:02 am
Collected Editions is celebrating Halloween with not one, but two scary reviews this week! If you want a gory, gruesome comic book for your Halloween celebration, The Spectre: Tales of the Unexpected...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Oct 22, 2009, 8:02 am
... comments aren't so clever as to make the reader like her. The Titans come off in these moments as kids, and not kids you'd especially want to hang ... scenes with a potential Titan c...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Oct 19, 2009, 8:02 am
[Contains spoilers for Robin: Search for a Hero and just about everything Batman-related these days, including the "Batman Reborn" storyline and the new Batgirl series.] Writer Fabian Nicieza pinch-h...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Oct 15, 2009, 8:02 am
Now that we know that the trade Blackest Night hardcover collection is on the horizon (though not, unfortunately, in a deluxe edition), it's time to start considering how YOU would want to see Bla...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Oct 13, 2009, 11:35 am
The various retail sites are now announcing the Blackest Night hardcover to be released in July 2010. Given the increasing popularity of deluxe format editions (Batman: RIP, Batman & Robin, Superman:...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Oct 13, 2009, 10:37 am
* If you're visiting the Collected Editions blog today, be sure to hop over to the Collected Comics Library. Chris Marshall celebrates ten years of his excellent blog and podcast -- go wish Chris...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Oct 12, 2009, 8:02 am
[Contains spoilers for Battle of the Cowl and the general new Batman direction] Peter Tomasi offers an impressive end to a troubled book in Nightwing: The Great Leap. In many ways it seems the "Batm...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Oct 8, 2009, 8:02 am
[This review comes from Collected Editions contributor Derek Roper] When we last left the Six, they were in tatters in Birds of Prey. Knockout had been killed in the events leading up to Final Crisis...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Oct 5, 2009, 8:02 am
There's few things I like more than a comic by Greg Rucka, and especially a comic by Greg Rucka that includes Renee Montoya as the Question, and also references Renee's history with Gotham...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Oct 1, 2009, 8:02 am
It's clear from the first volume of Superman: New Krypton that this story has all the makings of an epic. Though New Krypton still seems very much an effort on the writers' part to work out h...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Sep 28, 2009, 8:02 am
[This review comes from Adam J. Noble, a public librarian living in Eastern Canada.] If you go shopping on Amazon for trade collections of Uncanny X-Men, you’ll find that those unpredictable mad sc...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Sep 24, 2009, 8:02 am
Superman/Batman: Finest Worlds, Michael Green and Mike Johnson's second volume of the series, hearkens strongly back to the classic World's Finest series. In the spirit of the kinds of advent...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Sep 21, 2009, 8:02 am
The important question about Neil Gaiman's Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? is, does it indeed function as the "last" Batman story? Yes, it does. Gaiman offers in two issues a...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Sep 17, 2009, 3:20 pm
... the fun?" department comes news that Geoff Johns and Gary's Frank's Superman: Secret Origin will be collected in DC Comics' deluxe oversized format. Previous deluxe books ... ;t mi...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Sep 17, 2009, 8:02 am
[This review comes from Loki Carbis, an Australian pop culture junkie, who cannot resist a good graphic novel. He lives at The Centre Cannot Hold on the web, and in his own imagination, among others....
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Sep 14, 2009, 8:02 am
It goes without saying that Birds of Prey: Platinum Flats is not the kind of ending Birds of Prey deserved. For a book that not only spawned a short-lived television series, but also had the unique p...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Sep 10, 2009, 8:02 am
... . The Rose Wilson Ravager has been around since the early 1990s (first introduced in "Titans Hunt," if you can believe it), and while her current characterization is a far cry from then, I' ....
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Sep 8, 2009, 2:38 pm
Just received word that DC Comics will release Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers of Victory in hardcover format in 2010. This should in truth come as no surprise given the current popularity of (...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Sep 7, 2009, 8:02 am
[This review comes from Bob Schoonover, who's annotating NBC's Chuck on his blog.] Daredevil: The Devil, Inside and Out, Vol. 1 is the beginning of Ed Brubaker's run on Daredevil, and, gi...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Sep 3, 2009, 8:02 am
I wonder if Geoff Johns would hesitate if someone asked him which characters he preferred to write, the Flash or the Rogues? In Final Crisis: Rogues' Revenge, writer Geoff Johns reunites with art...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Aug 31, 2009, 8:02 am
Writer Peter Milligan concludes the series' final collection with Infinity, Inc.: The Boogeyman, and in the process demonstrates a curious cross-section of what this curious title might have been....
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Aug 27, 2009, 8:02 am
When I think of Peter Milligan, I think of Doop. I never actually read X-Statix, but the image of those Mike Allred-rendered mutants is near seared in my brain, along with the idea that Milligan is a ...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Aug 24, 2009, 8:02 am
[Contains spoilers for The Question: Five Books of Blood] Five which are three which are one -- sounds like a case for the Question. And such is the case of Greg Rucka's The Question: The Five B...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Aug 20, 2009, 8:02 am
With The Sinestro Corps War and Final Crisis very swiftly behind them, both Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps begin gearing up for Blackest Night. Green Lantern tackles the Red Lanterns, while Gr...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Aug 17, 2009, 8:02 am
I find I like Geoff Johns' Green Lantern title increasingly not for the story itself, but for the issues Johns uses the story to address. Sure, Green Lantern: Rage of the Red Lanterns is about a ...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Aug 13, 2009, 8:02 am
[This review comes from Chris Marshall of the trade paperback blog and podcast Collected Comics Library.] 2006 was a big year for Marvel Comics. Three major events were held that year: Civil War, Pla...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Aug 12, 2009, 3:09 pm
* We'll borrow a note from our friend Chris Marshall at the Collected Comics Library because Chris will be gracing us with a guest review here tomorrow. Don't miss it! * A much-belated note ...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Aug 11, 2009, 8:02 am
[This post on the modern DC Universe spoils just about everything if you're not up on current DC Comics storylines.] In a good way, DC Comics finds itself in upheval these days, pulled both forwa...
Comment - Like

Colin E. posted an article on Collected Editions - Aug 10, 2009, 8:02 am
DC Comics set up Grant Morrison's Final Crisis unlike the crossovers that immediately preceded it. Rather than cross into monthly titles like Infinite Crisis did, the story limited itself to a sm...
Comment - Like