Wildstorm for the non-Wildstorm fan
With the news that Wildstorm is shutting down, here are a handful of their deeper catalog books that you may want to take a look at just to see some of the excellent work that they've put out over the last 18 years.
- Arrowsmith: So Smart In Their Fine Uniforms by Kurt Busiek and Carlos Pacheco- a fine, old fashioned adventure comic. Pacheco really pulls off some classic artwork here.
- City of Tomorrow by Howard Chaykin-- Maybe not Chaykin's finest hour but possibly the closest we'll see to a revival of Time2.
- Desolation Jones by Warren Ellis and J.H. Williams-- This is one of those series that I wonder if we'll ever see the conclusion, with art by Daniel Zezjl, of.
- Epicurus the Sage by William Messner-Loebs and Sam Keith-- Wildstorm has a lot of Keith books (Maxx, Four Women) in print but this may still be one of my favorite books of the 90s.
- Gen 13-- I don't know if the final issues of the first series by Adam Warren and Rick Mays have ever been collected but they were a fantastic sendoff to these characters that really made me care for them for the first time. Track them down if you can.
- Kurt Busiek's Astro City: Life in the Big City by Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson-- almost any Astro City is good but the original is still the best.
- Mr. Majestic by Joe Casey, Brian Hoguin and Ed McGuinness-- fun, over the top superheroics as only Joe Casey can conceive them.
- Mysterius the Unfathomable by Jeff Parker and Tom Fowler-- It's a crime that there hasn't been a followup to this series. A CRIME!!!!
- Steampunk V1 & 2 by Joe Kelly and Chris Bachalo-- I'm kind of surprised that only the first volume of this is listed on Wildstorm's website. It's incomprehensible but I can stare at the Bachalo artwork all day.
- The Winter Men by Brett Lewis and Jon Paul Leon-- Russian superheroes long after the end of the Cold War. I've been meaning to reread this one lately.