C.O.W.L. Volume 1: Principles of Power by Kyle Higgins, Alec Siegel, and Rod Reis

The "Chicago Organized Worker's League" or C.O.W.L. the superhero union is in the mist of new contract negations; but that's not the worst, they're dealing with super-villains and mobsters, and potentially corruption amongst their ranks.

The story was really good; heroes are no longer saving people to be good Samaritans, it's a paycheck with a whole of politics attached to it. The ending was a real cliffhanger, we see the unfolding of a conspiracy and just how bad you have to be to be a hero.

Rating 4 out of 5 
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V-Wars Volume 1 by Jonathan Maberry

I was very torn on this one, it looks good, but I felt something was missing. The entire book basically plays out as a race war. Vampires versus humans and in the whole process, there is really no explanation as to how it all started.

There is a lot of mention about this ICE virus, but no history on it, no explanation on it, nothing. Then we have all these different species of Vampires, from different part of the world and they all look different and have different abilities and thirst. It also didn't make sense how in some part they say it's caused by the ICE virus, but then in other it's a mutation. Which is it? Virus or mutation?

But, I did love the conspiracy angle on it and with that I believe they can take this series way further; the potential is there, let's hope they use it.

Rating 3 out of 5
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Puck: What Fools These Mortals Be by Michael Alexander Kahn, RichardSamuel West, Various (Illustrations)

This book can either be described as picture book or a history book. Puck was one of the first American satire cartoon magazines. This book was wonderfully amusing; it's a collection of many of the cartoons that made fun of the politics of the 19th century, and even the social conventions of the time.

What is amusing is that many of the issues the cartoons address are issues that two centuries later are still a plague. If you grab this book, don't think you're grabbing some comic book or anything, you're grabbing a book on the history of modern cartoon strips, of original wit in an era when print was god.

This book encompasses everything that modern satirical cartoons miss, it's enchanting because in an era when the world was more conservative, Puck arose as innovator and speaker of the downhearted.

Enjoy this book and What Fools These Mortals Be.

Rating 5 out of 5
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