Brad Ladlee

Hickman covers it all with S.H.I.E.L.D.

S.H.I.E.L.D. #1Marvel Comics Related articlesNick Fury returns with Secret Warriors. The week in comics: Nick Fury, Batman and Green Lantern The week in comics: Secret Warriors, Fantastic Four, Batman and Green Lantern I usually...

Blackest Night ends with bright, new beginnings

Much of the DC universe is back from the dead and so is your favorite Newark Comic Books Examiner! DC's mega-event Blackest Night came to an epic conclusion this past Wednesday with Blackest Night #8. The white...

The week in comics: Human Target, The Twelve and Batman and Robin

Thank you Fox Television for bringing back the Human Target. I first became fascinated with the adventures of Christopher Chance when Peter Milligan revived the Human Target for DC's Vertigo imprint in 1999. Milligan's run was...

The week in comics: Blackest Night, Fantastic Four and Batman and Robin

DC's latest mega-event climbs to its climax in Blackest Night #7. I had speculated since the beginning that the only thing that could ultimately counter the power of the black light would be the combined spectra...

The week in comics: Punisher and Doomwar

Maybe I'm in the minority with the direction of the Punisher with this whole FrankenCastle story arc, but I really can't get enough of it. I keep hearing it compared to the Marvel Knights angel/demon/supernatural...

Warren Ellis and Gravel

To be honest, comics published by Avatar Press have always frightened me a bit. It reminds me of when I was fifteen and I stumbled across a copy of Tim Vigil's Faust. The graphic violence, demented sexual...

The week in comics: Siege, Wolverine and Scalped

Siege #2 is everything I love about huge mainstream comic events. Its a big-budget blockbuster with all of the explosive bells and whistles. Its an epic battle between the forces of good and evil, except evil is...

The week in comics: Secret Warriors, Fantastic Four, Batman and Green Lantern

The storytelling prowess of Jonathan Hickman continues to excite and impress me. His continuing tales of action and espionage in Secret Warriors #12 are no exception. Every issue contains the perfect balance of mind-blowing revelations and...

The week in comics: Avengers, Weapon X, Joe the Barbarian and Jericho

Everyone's favorite mentally unstable superhero, the Sentry, is having quite the bad week over in the Avengers titles. In Dark Avengers #13 the Sentry's wife re-accounts the shocking truth of his origin and it is definitely...

Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba make magic with Daytripper

Who decides the course life takes? Is it the fickle winds of destiny that blow us from one event to the next, shaping our perception of human existence? Or do we choose the paths that our lives will...

Currently in Los Angeles