This week we finish off our month of Gaps in Our knowledge with Fables. A modern update on fairy tale characters in New York City. In the first collection of the long running comic, Bigby Wolf and Snow White join forces to solve a grisly murder.
Read MoreIt's a book that Adam missed: Sandman. Gaiman’s lucid dream of a comic blends superhero’s and the supernatural in a book that has rightly been labeled a classic,
Read MoreThis week we continue our spotlight on Brian K. Vaughan with the Pride of Baghdad. Based on a true story. Vaughan's tale of freedom vs slavery surrounds a small pride of Lions as they escape from the Bagdad zoo during the second Iraq war.
Read MoreThis week we enter the Demilitarized Zone, AKA the DMZ, AKA Manhattan. The story takes us thru a war torn New York in the center of a second American Civil War. Vertigo presents DMZ, a tale from expertly written by Brian Wood with beautiful Art by Riccardo Burchielli.
Read MoreWith a new tv show starting at the end of the week, we took a look back at the 1995 comic that inspired it. This week we read “Preacher - Gone to Texas” created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillion. We are joined by Andy from the Bored as Hell podcast who was able to see the first episode of Preacher at SXSW. Next week we prepare for the “X-men Apocalypse” film by reading the X-men hallmark “The Dark Phoenix Saga” from 1980. Read, and drink along with us.
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