Read & Rated, 2008

03Jan09

• 100 Bullets #87 – 98, by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso 8/10
• The Walking Dead #46 – 56, by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard, 7/10
• A Child’s Life and Other Stories, by Phoebe Gloeckner 4/10
• Promethea Vols. 1-5, by Alan Moore and JH Williams 8/10
• America’s Best Comics, by Alan Moore and Many, Many Others 7/10

• Cat’s Eye, by Margaret Atwood 8/10
• Essex County Vol. 2: Ghost Stories, by Jeff Lemire 8/10
• Ode To Kirihito, by Osamu Tezuka 8/10
• The Mammoth Book of The Best Crime Comics, edited by Paul Gravett 8/10
• Too Cool To Be Forgotten, by Alex Robinson 7/10
• The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition, by Stephen King 7/10
• Devlin Waugh: Swimming in Blood, by John Smith, Sean Phillips, Siku and Michael Gaydos 7/10
• Streets of Glory #1-6, by Garth Ennis and Mike Wolfer 2/10
• Back to Brooklyn #2, by Garth Ennis, Jimmy Palmiottie, and Mihalio Vukelic 3/10
• Leaving St. Urbain, by Reinhold Kramer 8/10
• The Dogs of Riga, by Henning Mankell 6/10
• Earth X #1-13, by Jim Krueger, John Paul Leon, and Alex Ross 2/10
• Skreemer #1-6, by Peter Milligan, Brett Ewins, and Steve Dillon 3/10
• Heart of Empire: The Legacy of Luther Arkwright, by Bryan Talbot 7/10
• Cosmic Odyssey, by Jim Starlin and Mike Mignola 5/10
• Crossed #1, by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows 7/10
• Animal Man, Vol. 1, by Grant Morrison, Chas Truog, and Tom Grummett 8/10
• Paul Auster’s City of Glass, by Paul Karasnik and David Mazzucchelli 8/10
• Northwest Passage, by Scott Chantler 7/10
• Stagger Lee, by Derek McCulloch and Shepherd Hendrix 7/10
• Civilwarland in Bad Decline: Stories and a Novella, by George Saunders 8/10
• Back to Brooklyn #1, by Garth Ennis, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Mihailio Vukelic 6/10
• Fights of Our Lives: Elections, Leadership, and the Making of Canada, by John Duffy 7/10
• Daredevil Visionaries: Frank Miller, Vol. 2, by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson 8/10
• Daredevil: Born Again, by Frank Miller and David Mazuchelli 8/10
• All Star Superman #1 – 12, by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely 9/10
• The Dark Knight Strikes Again #1-3, by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley 7/10
• Skin, by Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy 5/10
• Top 10: The Forty-Niners, by Alan Moore and Gene Ha 7/10
• Hard Boiled #1-3, by Frank Miller and Geof Darrow 6/10
• Enigma #1-8, by Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo 9/10
• Secret Six #1, Gail Simone, Nicola Scott and Doug Hazlewood 7/10
• The War Room: Political Strategies For Business, NGOs, and Anyone Who Wants To Win, by Warren Kinsella 7/10
• The Filth, by Grant Morrison, Chris Weston, and Gary Erskine 8/10
• Godland, Vol. 1: Hello, Cosmic!, by Joe Casey and Tom Scioli 5/10
• Kirby: King of Comics, by Mark Evanier 7/10
• Buried Child, by Sam Shepard 8/10
• It’s a Bird…, by Steven T. Seagel and Teddy Kristiansen 7/10
• Chain of Command: The Road From 9/11 To Abu Ghraib, by Seymour M. Hersh 8/10
• Foul Play! The Art and Artists of the Notorious 1950s EC Comics, by Grant Geissman 8/10
• Comic Book Comics #1 – 2, by Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey 6/10
• Modernism: The Lure of Heresy, by Peter Gay 6/10
• Final Crisis #1 – 5, by Grant Morrison and JG Jones 6/10
• Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean, by Douglas Wolk 7/10
• The Best American Comics 2007, edited by Chris Ware and Anne Moore 7/10
• Chris Ware, by Daniel Raeburn 5/10
• A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery, by E. Benjamin Skinner 7/10
• Ambush Bug: Year None #1, by Keith Giffen, Robert Loren Fleming, and Al Milgrom 8/10
• Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus Volume 1, by Jack Kirby and Vince Colletta 7/10
• Outer Dark, by Cormac McCarthy 6/10
• I Killed Adolf Hitler, by Jason 8/10
• The Last Musketeer, by Jason 7/10
• Sleepwalk and Other Stories, by Adrian Tomine 3/10
• Consider Phlebas, by Iain M. Banks 7/10
• Hellblazer: Rake At The Gates of Hell, by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon 7/10
• Hellblazer: Stations of the Cross, by Mike Carey, Leonardo Manco, Chris Brunner, Marcelo Frustin, and Steve Dillon 6/10
• Wasteland #1-19, by Antony Johnson and Christopher Mitten 7/10
• Nellie McClung, by Charlotte Grey 6/10
• Alice in Sunderland, by Bryan Talbot 9/10
• 5 Is The Perfect Number, by Igort 7/10
• Point Blank, by Ed Brubaker and Colin Wilson 4/10
• Batman: The Cult, by Jim Starlin and Bernie Wrightson 3/10
• Human Target #1-10, by Peter Milligan, Javier Pulido, and Cliff Chiang 6/10
• Northlanders #1-5, by Brian Wood and Davide Gianfelice 4/10
• Straight Man, by Richard Russo 5/10
• The Ghost Writer, by Philip Roth 5/10
• The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood 8/10
• Mordecai & Me: An Appreciation Of A Kind, by Joel Yanofsky 0/10
• Johnny Cash: The Autobiography, by Johnny Cash and Patrick Carr 7/10
• Freedomland, by Richard Price 7/10
• The Road, by Cormac McCarthy 9/10
• Tell Me Something, by Jason 7/10
• Tor #1, by Joe Kubert 5/10
• Action Philosophers #1 – 9, by Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey 9/10
• Beanworld Vols. 1 & 2, by Larry Marder 8/10
• Batman #458-460, by Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle 8/10
• Tiny Titans Free Comic Book Day Edition, by Art Baltazar and Franco 8/10
• EC Free Comic Book Day Sampler, by Harvey Kurtzman, Al Feldstein, Alex Toth, Johnny Craig, and Wally Wood 8/10
• Silverfish, by David Lapham 3/10
• The War That Time Forgot #1, by Bruce Jones and Al Barrionuevo 4/10
• House of Mystery #1, by Matthew Sturges and Luca Rossi, with Bill Willingham and Ross Campbell 7/10
• The Wasp Factory, by Iain Banks 8/10
• James Sturm’s America: God, Gold, and Golems, by James Sturm 7/10
• DC Universe #0, by Grant Morrison, Geoff Johns, and a large mishmash of artists 0/10
• Elephantmen: Wounded Animals, by Richard Starkings and Joe Kelly, Moritat, Chris Bachalo, Henry Flint, Tom Scioli, and David Hine 7/10
• Hard Revolution, by George Pelecanos 5/10
• Mean, by Steve Weissman 8/10
• From Hell, by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell 8/10
• Child of God, by Cormac McCarthy 7/10
• American Splendor Vol. 2, #1, by Harvey Pekar, David Lapham, Dean Haspiel, Mike Hawthorne, Hilary Barta, John Lucas, Ed Piskor, Zachary Baldus, and Chris Weston 6/10
• Born Standing Up, by Steve Martin 6/10
• The Braindead Megaphone, by George Saunders 8/10
• The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman 7/10
• Clockers, by Richard Price 8/10
• Tintin: The Complete Companion, by Michael Farr 8/10
• The Fun Never Stops! by Drew Friedman 7/10
• A Miracle of Catfish, by Larry Brown 7/10
• The Left Bank Gang, by Jason 7/10
• What’re You Lookin’ At?! Vol. I of the Collected Angry Youth Comix, by Johnny Ryan 5/10
• Stop Forgetting to Remember: The Autobiography of Walter Kurtz, by Peter Kuper 7/10
• Comic Writers On Fantastic Four, by Tom DeFalco 5/10
• Golgo 13, Vols. 1 & 3 6/10
• Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together, by Bryan Lee O’Malley 8/10
• Shortcomings, by Adrian Tomine 6/10
• Coronado, by Dennis Lehane 4/10
• Perfect Example, by John Porcellino 7/10
• Tarzan: The Joe Kubert Years, Vol. 1, by Joe Kubert 8/10
• Terror, Inc. #1-5, by David Lapham and Patrick Zircher 4/10
• The Trouble With Girls, by Will Jacobs, Gerard Jones, and Tim Hamilton 6/10
• Crash, by JG Ballard 7/10
• Essex County Vol. 1: Tales From The Farm, by Jeff Lemire 8/10
• The Mammoth Book of Best War Comics, by David Kendall, edit. 6/10
• In Persuasion Nation, by George Saunders 7/10
• Empire Falls, by Richard Russo 8/10
• Luba: The Book of Ophelia, by Gilbert Hernandez 3/10
• Desolation Jones: Made in England, by Warren Ellis and JH Williams III 7/10
• Exit Wounds, by Rutu Modan 8/10
• Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West, by Cormac McCarthy 9/10
• Charley’s War: 2 June – 1 August 1916, by Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun. 8/10
• Pyongyang, by Guy Delisle 6/10
• Trenches, by Scott Mills 2/10
• Pastoralia, by George Saunders
• Concrete, Vol. 1: Depths, by Paul Chadwick
• Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
• The New Adventures of Jesus: The Second Coming, by Frank Stack
• Scott Pilgrim and The Infinite Sadness, by Bryan Lee O’Malley
• Library Mascot Cage Match: An Unshelved Collection, by by Gene Ambaum and Bill Barnes
• Lucifer: Devil in the Gateway, by Mike Carey, Scott Hampton, Chris Weston, James Hodgkins, Warren Pleece, Dean Ormston
• Snaked #1, by Clifford Meth, Rufus Dayglo
• Spent, by Joe Matt 2/10
• Why Are You Doing This? by Jason 8/10

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