Top Shelf

Top Shelf Productions is one of my absolute favorite publishers in comics. I can't believe that it's their 10th anniversary, which is quite the accomplishment. I was looking around their website the other day when something caught my eye. We've been talking about the impending Transformers movie quite a bit, but The Incredible Change-Bots by Jeffrey Brown takes us back to a time when robots in dis

Ok, I need to preface this review by saying I don't read a lot of indie stuff. I tend to stick with Marvel, DC and a few things here and there from Vertigo, Image and Dark Horse. I probably gravitate towards the Big Two simply because these are the characters I read growing up, so there is a lifelong attachment to them ...

BEST. SALE. EVER. I make no secret of my admiration for Top Shelf Comics, but the news of their 10th Anniversary sale is so mind-bending that I have to make this special announcement. So a big, "PAY ATTENTION!" goes out to all of you comics fans - you'd be doing yourself a big favor by going and checking out this sale...

A lifelong comics fan (save for that brief, shameful "too cool for comics" period in high school – thank you Rolling Stone for running the feature on Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns which brought me to my senses), I've done a stint managing a comic store (Big Planet Comics in northern VA, for which I've continued moonlighting for over ten years now), and have conducted int