Comic Book Reviews — Dc Comics

Joe the Barbarian TP (2024 Edition) by Grant Morrison – A Riveting Journey Through Imagination and Survival Grant Morrison’s Joe the Barbarian is a breathtaking graphic novel that masterfully intertwines real-life struggles with an extraordinary fantasy adventure. This 2024 trade paperback edition revives the critically acclaimed story, giving new readers and collectors the perfect opportunity to delve into one of the most imaginative and emotionally resonant works in modern comics. At its heart, Joe the Barbarian tells the story of Joe Manson, a lonely and bullied teenager living with Type 1 diabetes. One fateful day, Joe’s blood sugar drops dangerously...

The Damned #2    Oni Press really knew how to draw my attention with this one. A menacing, well dressed demon smoking a cigar in the dark woods? I had to see what’s going on with this issue. Plus, the title. Simply called the Damned. I’m sold.     Like many good stories, this one features demons. They seem pretty common place, too. I’m not sure if the demon on the front is supposed to be Satan (they only refer to him as Big Al, but he looks like the Devil), but he’s an angry gangster. And he’s a bad man. This...

Rocket #1 Following last week’s new Guardians of the Galaxy #1 comes the new Rocket series. Rocket is back, sans the Guardians, in a heist book. Rocket is with his own crew now of strange looking aliens, each with a different specialty. My favorite of which, by the way, is an angry and destructive version of Tweety Bird. Seriously, they got the speech thing down here. Like I said, this is a heist book. Rocket, a former criminal, has put that life behind him when an old flame shows up to ask him for help. So Rocket has to use...

X-Men Prime #1 This book is the first of what I’ve just realized are all one shots this week. I promise this was a coincidence, this is just what looked good. X-Men Prime is the catalyst that will lead to several upcoming X-Men books for this year. We have the makings of Weapon X, X-Men Gold, and X-Men Blue. So, knowing that new X-Men books were coming soon, I wanted to get a place marker for where we are with the mutants. So, having not read the X-Men vs. Inhumans, and let’s face it, the X-Men mythos can be a...