Author: Tom Spurgeon

  • Review: “Avengers” #19

    ByTom Spurgeon

    CR Review: Avengers #19 Creators: Brian Michael Bendis, Daniel Acuna Publishing Information: Marvel Comics, comic book, 40 pages, November 2011, $3.99 Perhaps the oddest thing about the Avengers property becoming Marvel’s flagship title the last few years is that there’s no underlying concept involved in its execution. It’s Marvel’s biggest superheroes (and some of its…

  • Review: ‘Monster Christmas’

    ByTom Spurgeon

    CR Review: Monster Christmas Creator: Lewis Trondheim Publishing Information: Papercutz, hardcover, 32 pages, 2011, $9.99 Ordering Numbers: [[[9781597072885]]] (ISBN13) CR received this holiday effort from NBM kids’ line Papercutz in late August, meaning that any number of North American writers-about-comics will have likely written a review between the time this was written (early September) and…