TheUnwritten

ComicsAlliance reviews the biggest, best, and most interesting comics that hit the shelves this week. IN SPACE NO ONE WILL BUY YOUR COMIC - S.W.O.R.D. 5 One subject I've always been passionate about is space exploration. Whenever funding for NASA gets cut, I can understand on a short-term, practical level the explanations that those large sums of money could be better spent on more pressing conc

BATMAN & ROBIN (& BATWOMAN, & KNIGHT, & SQUIRE, & BATMAN AGAIN) - Batman and Robin 8 Much of Grant Morrison's writing for the DC Universe over the past several years has involved callbacks to past events on a level that even the most devout of continuity fans would probably consider obscure references to details they never expected to see again. So it's only fitti... Read Mor

INSTANT CLASSIC - The Unwritten 9 I know that I've talked a lot about Mike Carey and Peter Gross' Vertigo series lately, and I'd normally be hesitant to cover the same book over and over again in this space. But issue #9 of "The Unwritten" is by far the best comic book to be released this week...

Tomorrow, the first trade paperback collection of Mike Carey and Peter Gross' Vertigo comic book series, "The Unwritten," hits bookstores. Subtitled "Tommy Taylor and the Case of the Bogus Identity," the book revolves around Tom Taylor, the son of a bestselling author named Wilson Taylor who mysteriously disappeared years before the story opens...

With 2009 about to draw to a close, now seems like a good time to look back on a year of Wednesdays and remind myself of the reason I buy new comics every week. To remember that it's worth sifting through the piles of never-ending zombie comics, celebrity biography cash-ins and Barack Obama team-ups because every once in a while you find a great story with beautiful artwork...

YOU REALLY DON'T WANT TO GET IN HIS HEAD - Pilot Season: Murderer 1 Popular culture has taught me that there are two kinds of telepathy. There's the good, desirable kind where you can selectively read other people's thoughts, turning that ability on and off at will...

ComicsAlliance's Chris Murphy reviews the biggest -- and best -- books coming out this week.THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY GIFT IS ADAMANTIUM, RIGHT? "The Marvels Project" #1 The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. It's a concise piece of wisdom that was first uttered by none other than Albert Einstein...