And now a rambling and too brief review of "Pride of Baghdad" by Brian K. Vaughan & Nico Henrichon, their 2006 graphic novel about a group of lions who escape the Baghdad Zoo during the Iraq War.  

The Classics: "Pride of Baghdad" by Brian K. Vaughan & Nico Henrichon

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Sleeper" by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips, their brilliant 24 issue series from the early 2000's that mixed deep cover crime noir with superhero comics.

The Classics: "Sleeper" by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Point Blank" by Ed Brubaker & Collin Wilson, in which Cole Cash/The Grifter searches for who put his former Team 7 member, John Lynch, in a coma, with some surprises along the way.

The Classics: "Point Blank" by Ed Brubaker & Collin Wilson

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Powers: Who Killed Retro Girl?" Vol. 1 by Brian Michael Bendis & Michael Avon Oeming, the beginning of this iconic series about police detectives whose job it is to investigate superheroes.

The Classics: "Powers: Who Killed Retro Girl?" Vol. 1 by Brian Michael Bendis & Michael Avon Oeming

And now a rambling and too brief review of "The Other Side", the Vietnam War comic by Jason Aaron and Cameron Stewart.

The Classic: "The Other Side" by Jason Aaron & Cameron Stewart

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Holiday Knights" from the "The New Batman Adventures", another classic Batman Christmas special.

The Christmas Classics: "Holiday Knights" from "The New Batman Adventures"

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Christmas With The Joker", the second episode of the classic "Batman: The Animated Series" that was not only the debut of Mark Hamill as the Joker but also a fun Christmas special.

The Christmas Classics: "Christmas With the Joker"

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Iron Man 3", the 2013 Marvel film written and directed by Shane Black, so it naturally had a Christmas flavor.

The Christmas Classics: "Iron Man 3"

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Batman Returns", the 1992 movie that, since set during Christmas, makes a fun, Christmas comic book movie.

The Christmas Classics - "Batman Returns"

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Sin City: Silent Night", his Nov. 1995 one-shot in which Marv, one of his many anti-heroes of Sin City, decides to do some good on Christmas Eve but in his own way.

The Christmas Classics: "Sin City: Silent Night" by Frank Miller

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Sin City: That Yellow Bastard" by Frank Miller, his 1996 mini-series that is arguably the last great one in the franchise.

The Classics: "Sin City: That Yellow Bastard" by Frank Miller

And now a rambling and too brief review of Frank Miller's "Sin City: The Big Fat Kill", his third volume in his "Sin City" series that finds Dwight having to defend Old Town from outside invaders.

The Classics: "Sin City: The Big Fat Kill" by Frank Miller

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For", Frank Miller's follow-up to "The Hard Goodbye" to truly fleshes out this crime noir world in probably its best story ever.

The Classics: "Sin City - A Dame to Kill For"

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Sin City: The Hard Goodbye" by Frank Miller, his introduction to his classic crime noir series that is simply Miller at his pursest.

The Classics: "Sin City-The Hard Goodbye" by Frank Miller

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Blade II", once again starring Wesley Snipes but also directed by Guillmero Del Toro, which provided his first big break into Hollywood.

The Creepy Classics: "Blade II"

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Blade", the 1998 movie adaptation of the classic Marvel character that not only was the first successful Marvel movie but a pretty good vampire film to boot.

The Creepy Classics: "Blade" 1998

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Tomb of Dracula", the classic 1970's horror comic from Marvel that not only made Dracula a Marvel villain but introduced other classic characters like Blade.

The Creepy Classics: "Tomb of Dracula"

And now a rambling and to brief review of the "Vault of Horror" horror comic from EC Comics, one of the many classic horror anthology series the company produced in the 1950's.

The Creepy Classics: "Vault of Horror" by EC Comics

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Runaways" by Brian K. Vaughan & Adrian Alphona, which answers the questions of what would happen if you found out your parents were super villians.

The Classics: "Runaways" by Brian K. Vaughan & Adrian Alphona

And now a rambling and too brief review of "The Rocketeer: Complete Adventures" by the late, great Dave Stevens, his classic send up to the pulp heroes of the 1930's and 40's.

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