Posts Tagged ‘Comics’

All*Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder
by Frank Miller and Jim Lee

This book takes a lot of criticism for making Batman a lot more violent than his true nature as a hero is. And it’s by no means one of the better Batman stories told by Frank Miller. That aside, though, I really enjoyed reading it and seeing a different side to the Dark Knight.

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“Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them…. and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all…!”

Locke & Key is written by Joe Hill and illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez.

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A comic book adaptation of the original novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum. Written by Eric Shanower and illustrated by Skottie Young.

The story follows an orphaned 12 year old girl named Dorothy. She lives in a farmhouse “in the midst of the great Kansas prairies” with her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em. On one stormy day the farmhouse, with Dorothy in it, is caught up in a cyclone and carried far away to the mysterious land of Oz. In order to return to Kansas, Dorothy must travel to the Emerald City and ask the great Wizard of Oz to help her. And so begins her journey.

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