July 2008 :: Print Reviews

Print Reviews

Batman Unauthorized

With the Dark Knight casting his long shadow over box offices this month, a true sidekick emerges to help define this troubled but beguiling hero. Batman Unauthorized lifts the cowl with 18 diverse essays that do a lot more to support the Caped Crusader than that "Aww shucks!" Robin, and should be the perfect warm-up for the big screen bat.

Heavy Metal Painkillers

Scott Adams finds that his leather chaps-wearing inner metal fan is satisfied by this new heavily illustrated tribute to the British metal gods. Need research fodder to debate the relative merits of British Steel over Screaming for Vengeance? This book is for you!

Little Nemo in Slumberland

Four years of Little Nemo in Slumberland Sunday pages are brought together in one volume. Carl Gauze remembers it as if it were a dream.