Terrifying space-horror with an all star cast that established tropes still fashionable 40 yeas later. 

The only good thing about it is that it is the last volume of this particular installment. Possibly the rebirth version will be better, although  I don't hold out to much hope considering that the preview issue indicates that Starfire will once again be involved, and she is a thoroughly useless character. 

Simplistic, but appropriate for it's intended middle-school target in that it gives an overview of the different sects and styles of living. More helpful to the adult reader is the extensive bibliography and the list of (possibly outdated) tourist attractions.

Adding sloppy continuity to all the sins of the previous volume is not an improvement.  When you go from having your heroes surrounded by police in one panel to 'one week later' with no explanation, and in a few pages have a big fight ended in one panel because the bad guy basically said 'I'm stronger', followed by our 'heroes' deciding to become road-wandering vigilantes - a change that lasts for all of one city. Lazy writing from beginning to end. 

DC goes whole hog on vigilante moralizing again, endlessly repeating a terrible mantra of 'we're friends, we're teammates, were Titans!' as if it excuses the explicitly lawless behavior to follow - and this isn't 'Batman investigating criminals' it's 'breaking a legally detained person out of prison...because he's my Friend!' type.

A nontraditional collection of travel essays, as the travel itself is a template for the authors state of mind and philosophical musings rather than an end in and of itself. McMurtry relates his experiences driving along a varied collection of America's highways and with each trip muses upon the mutable nature of the roads and the cities along them, how his own life has changed since he first made that particular or a similar  trip,  and all of the authors who have written about the country he is passing through or who lived in the towns he passes by. Read with a notepad handy, as LM has forgotten more about authors and booklore than I (or you) could ever hope to learn.

The worst Neil Gaiman I've ever read. I understand authors trying new styles, and the concept of pastiche, and homage but the prose, story and art are all dense, confusing, and worst of all uninteresting.  Read some Mike Mignola instead. 

Great concept marred slightly by the slight difficulty in telling the demonic antagonists apart early on in the series,  and it ends the arc well - leaving the path open to further volumes without being a cliffhanger. 

Disappointing on many levels. The first issue in the collection is a complete wast of time with the JL members sitting around in a cave accomplishing nothing. The rest is filled with time travel garbage- made even less comprehensible by poorly drawn, cluttered art - involving villains with no good introduction, attacking with with five giant machines that threaten ' all of history ' for five issues, and then has them destroyed in five panels with no reason given why if it was so easy it took so long.

The recipes are interesting and the chefs philosophies are clearly illustrated, but they seem impractical for most amateur cooks, either due to the ingredients or techniques necessary to produce them. 

Well-realized characters in an unusual setting with a nice art-delineation between present day and flashback.  The only thing lacking was a more complex antagonist. 

This is only a collection of old magazine covers with no commentary other than factual details on the various titles, and for those, black and white reproductions on cheap newspaper stock does not do the material justice. The best part of the 'book' is what can be made out on many of those covers - titles to long ago articles that would get a publisher lynched or crucified today - examples:

Do Strippers Make Good Wives?
The Case  for a White South Africa
The Right Way to Do Heroin
Negroes don't know anything about Jazz (this one from the only minority-focused title)
What's wrong with liking Lolitas?

FYI, I only made up one of these. 

An expansion to a story that isn't a profiteering sequel but rather an attempted fulfillment of unrealized plans beyond the authors control. This is only one third of the three part in-between-quel. the other chapters are well worth seeking out. 

Choppier than Animal Crackers or Duck Soup but that is a relic of later censoring rather thana reflection of the quality of the original material and makes it no less a classic. 

An interesting collection of rare views fleshed out with informative captions make this a good book, but poor reproductions of the postcards (whether that is a printing problem or a source material one is unclear) keep it from being a great one.

An extensive, informative essay with notes on several artists I was unfamiliar with precedes a wonderful collection of rare and interesting material - not just magazine and calendar cheesecake shots but bomber art, painted jackets, matchbooks and other ephemera of the era. 

The story isn't bad, but it isn't original or particularly interesting either. It feels more like a paint by numbers story with no original thought - every scene is so familiar its like going through  a constant cloud of deja-vu.  Until BB as a title can develop characters not tied to, mired in or beholden to classic Batman rogues and allies, it won't improve.  

Historically the work is interesting but compared to Vargas and other practitioners of a similar style, I find Petty's skills to be decidedly lacking, especially  technically.   HIs models are oddly proportioned, particualrly noticeable in the feet which are to short and thick in the ankle, and their bodies are often more Jessica Rabbit than human. 

Gorgeous reproductions and an in depth and informative essay give perspective and context to the artist.  Terrible the way a poor immigrant artist was abused and mistreated by Esquire Magazine, and surprising how well he was treated by Playboy. All in all a portrait of a man who's life was defined by loyalty - to both wife and employers - almost as much as vision.

An interesting collection of photos - some dating to Holmes' time, but most of the modern-day versions of locations frequented by Sherlock or mentioned by Watson in his chronicles. Terrible captions drag down the quality of the presentation, leaning to heavily on the crutch of quotations from the stories and not providing enough actual context for the sites shown.