Every Tuesday Christian examines some of his favorite comic book pages. This week: Christian looks at a page from the current volume of Punisher and finds a nice emotional moment in all that wonderfully ridiculous comic mayhem.

Every Tuesday Christian examines some of his favorite comic book pages. This week: A brief look at DC’s weekly series 52 before looking at one panel from issue #10 that does more for the marriage of Clark Kent and Lois Lane than years’ worth of stories.

I know I already covered this particular issue of All-Star Superman, but as the new year approaches, I couldn’t pass up sharing this beautiful and optimistic page written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Frank Quitely.
This is as good a place as any to call it a year with comics.
See you back here in 2010.

Do you know how hard it is to agree on just one Jack Kirby page?
This wouldn’t be a problem for me when I was young. As a kid, I didn’t like Kirby’s work at all. I prefered the art of people like John Buscema, John Romita Sr., Frank Miller, John Byrne, Al Milgrom and Mike Mignola (thanks to Rocket Raccoon!). I just didn’t understand Kirby, and I was frustrated because everyone kept telling me how I was supposed to. He was “the King” afterall.
Luckily, I came around when I was …

I’m not going to get into how amazing Frank Miller’s “Born Again” saga in his Daredevil run was. By now, it’s become one of those facts of life. Nor am I going to go into detail explaining the shadow of Miller which looms so heavily over the character and the book itself. Writers appear to work with two modes when taking on the character: 1) scrambling to get out of Miller’s shadow, or 2) enjoying the shade.
I think it’s a shame that Miller’s influence has equated to dumping as much …

I’m always amazed how fans gravitate to older Batman stories like The Dark Knight Returns, Arkham Asylum and The Killing Joke when namedropping their definitive Batman story, especially when we’ve been offered some amazing stories in the last five years. If I had to choose the best Batman mini-series to hit shelves in the last decade, I would have to pick Paul Pope’s Batman Year 100, an alternate future story that gets right a lot of the basic things many in-continuity Batman stories get wrong.
There isn’t a lot I can …

Whenever any asks me who my favorite comic book character is, without hesitation I always say Jim Gordon. If I were ever in a position to write comic books and I was offered a dream book, it would be be to write a monthly Jim Gordon comic. The concept of a good cop working in a city of madmen is too good to pass up. A few years ago when they had retired him, I thought it presented a wonderful opportunity to see Gordon working as a private detective, and …

The Perry Bible Fellowship does Marvel Comics.
I mean, what more do you need to know?

I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with Marvel’s Nick Fury. There was always something too simplistic about the character that never worked for me, and I don’t think anyone really bothered to explore what’s behind the eye patch in any positive way until Nick Fury vs S.H.I.E.L.D., the 1986 miniseries. Even then, he had always been the character to randomly pop up and either seek assistance from a superhero or offer a quick fix. I really enjoyed what Garth Ennis did with the character in the 2001 Fury miniseries, though …

Because of the nature of this discussion, it should be noted that I will be revealing a spoiler from Detective Comics #857.
It’s clear that writing the new Batwoman is a labor of love of Greg Rucka, as the character has brought out some of his best storytelling. And while Rucka’s talent as a writer would be more than enough to get us interested in Batwoman, it’s J.H. Williams III’s involvement as an artist that makes his story excel from a comic book into a work of art.
This is something I …