FICTION
Released: March 1, 1998
"Visually compelling and historically resonant, Giardino's full- color narrative is evolving into a masterwork of its kind."
The second volume in Giardinos poignant graphic narrative of growing up under Communist rule in postwar Prague lives up to the clean elegance of its first (rev. 5/1/97).
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 2, 1997
"Then again, maybe you're not really expected to cut them out, and this glitzy tale is a comic book only because it's written on a level that—well, all the fashion world can understand."
Well-known designer Mizrahi scripts a trio of adventures for his fictional supermodel, Sandee, a ``really, really real'' beauty from Bountiful, Utah, who takes Manhattan by storm under the tutelage of her best friend and discoverer, Yvesaac Mizrahi, an alter ego whose only difference from his creator is about 30 pounds and a carefully chiseled chin.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 10, 1997
FICTION
Released: July 1, 1997
"Still, this is a project worth watching if yet another fine comic artist proves that a medium long associated with kids can handle the most serious of topics."
The first volume in a longer graphic novel, Giardino's tale of Communist oppression in Prague after the war recalls the best fictional and nonfictional accounts of life under Stalinism in Eastern Europe—the Kafkaesque bureaucracies, the betrayal of friendships, the constant presence of Big Brother, the unofficial anti-Semitism.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 7, 1995
"But Vachss himself would probably agree that staging events like this one to grab headlines is precisely his point."
If you were floored by Robin Williams's genie in Aladdin, wait till you sink your fangs into the latest, and unlikeliest, pop-cultural marriage: child-abuse specialist Vachss (Footsteps of the Hawk, p. 982, etc.) meets the Caped Crusader.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 1994
"Shows all too clearly why comics are comics and books are books. (16 b&w illustrations)"
A novella from Marvel Comics co-founder Lee and writer Peter David packaged with 12 new stories (from other writers) that follow the amazing web-slinger from his humble high-school beginnings to his contemporary crises of purpose.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 1994
"Others may well find it mind-numbingly silly and occasionally offensive."
Miaowara Tomokato, the feline whose tongue is sharper than his sword, returns for a fifth engagement in this series by Rogers (The Sword of Samurai Cat, 1991, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: April 23, 1991
"Irresistibly hilarious or depressingly imbecilic, depending on the viewpoint of the beholder."
FICTION
Released: Aug. 23, 1965
"25, or '33 Bentley convertible, no more benzedrine bridge or baccarat, for 70 million francs, no more SMERSH or S.P.E.C.T.R.E., or even M. Double-oh-seven's deep as the Thames mud, where his Triple-X deciphering machine will never work."
