This week down at your local brick-’n'-mortar: the cult flicks come to the graphic novels; you can wash your money, but not your soul; Earth-616 gets grittier; hasn’t this mini-series ended yet?

This week at your friendly neighborhood arrested-development peddler: Interdimensional art thievery for fun and profit; the Green Hornet’s sidekick does America; secret agent men are revamped and reprinted; crime lives on after death.

This week on the ol’ spinner racks: The rez continues to get bloody; Holmes takes on some of his weirder cases; the sequel really tries to outdo the original; Darwyn Cooke’s masterpiece (so far).

Crime Comics Coming this week to your friendly neighborhood comic book store: The finest small-press book of the year; Max Allan Collins goes back to Perdition yet again; Garth Ennis gives us revenge served warmed-over; Godzilla does...

This week down at the comical book shop: Steampunk gets less lame; you really can judge a book by its cover; Mr. Snuffleupagus turns mercenary; Marvel’s western characters get their due.

It struck me as I was watching J. Edgar that as much as I enjoy James Ellroy’s work and how funny I find his depiction of Hoover in his Blood’s a Rover, it actually is a really cartoony version of...

This week in your local comics shop: Gary Phillips rinses your cash, Blair Butler attacks your fight comics, Howard Chaykin warms up to the cold war, and Andy Diggle takes the western to South America.

When it premiered in 1993, NYPD Blue was a fairly standard TV police drama, except for having the most swearing heard on broadcast TV at the time and more naked butts per episode than a diaper commercial.  As we...

Rolling into your local comics shop this week: Jonah Hex and the dreariness (in more than one way) of Jack the Ripper; Dash Bad Horse gets even more mired in the rez; Matt Murdock fights for the...

‘ Many readers and writers of crime fiction will claim its appeal lies in the rebellious, sometimes anarchistic characters and the way in which one can live vicariously through them.  But something tells us it goes a...