Cody Wareham Comic Reviews

A new classic in the Batman cannon in the vein of "The Cult" and "The Black Mirror," "Batman: Dark Patterns" comes to a satisfyingly ambiguous close in its twelfth-and-final issue, cementing its status among the very best modern Batman stories.

Although much more lean and stripped-down than his previous efforts - specifically the decades-spanning, genre-shifting That Texas Blood series - News From The Fallout marks another significant achievement from writer Chris Condon, with bold, starkly-rendered artwork from Jeffrey Alan Love bringing life (or, should I say, death) and gritty texture to this mythic, doom-filled, post-apocalyptic fable.

The Dollhouse Family #1 (Carey, Gross, Locke, Peter, Klein) delivers the first chapter in a sprawling, multi-generational horror/mystery story thats genuinely engrossing, with gorgeous artwork and enough connective tissue running between the two parallel plot-lines that I cant wait to see how they inevitably come together.