NYPD Blue: the greatest cop show ever. Part 3 in this episode-by-episode recap brings us Wendie Malick, Michael Rapaport, and David Schwimmer.

I’ve long believed Warren Ellis is a crime-fiction writer at heart.  The first series of Wolfskin was a clear example of sword-and-sorcery comics, but had that distinct Yojimbo/Fistful of Dollars feel, a dyed-in-the-wool crook playing both sides.  Comics like Aetheric Mechanics and Captain Swing are...

Neil Gaiman and Jim Thompson bonded by Scam Fiction? It’s all a scam, isn’t it? My alarm goes off in the morning and I eat some cereal some marketer scammed me into thinking tastes good and is...

This week down at the comic-book store, where the customer is king: Hell ain’t(?) a bad place to be; Secret volume three attack; My Uncle L says to not call this a comeback; The other thing McGavin...

This coming Wednesday, your local comic-book retailer shall be able to provide for you the following: The war on drugs is almost cancelled; crooked cops of the old West; surf’s up (except for that dude); our noir...

Should you find yourself in a comic-book shop this week (and you should), here’s what you should buy: A crime comic of crime comics; The FBI’s most wanted comic-book character; Sweet lovely death, I am waiting for...

You stay classy, San Diego. A local baby-selling ring that had been in operation since 2005 had its final chapter written this past month.  Theresa Erickson, a former lawyer from Poway who specialized in (of course) reproductive law,...

This week down at your local comic-book retailer: The final shoot-out; Your days on the rez is numbered; Jolly good, then; Welcome back to 616, Frank.

Hollywood: it’s all a scam, isn’t it? For all of our lives, the movies have promised us big, big things.  Action and adventure are just out there waiting for us.  Good always triumphs over evil.  A simple confusion...

It’s an avalanche of trade paperbacks and hardcovers this week at the comics shop: Africa by way of Belgium; private eyes in the Munich underground; the ruination of Jonah Hex; the only Bendis book I don’t own.