Waiting for the Trade By Bill Miller The Infinite (volume one) by Robert Kirkman and Rob Liefeld Collects The Infinite # 1 –4. Why I Bought This: This was the last of my Free Comic Book Day pick-ups (although I still have another I haven’t reviewed yet). In this case I had just finished Walking Dead volume 1 about a month prior and between that and some Marvel Team Up I had read late last year I was quite impressed with Kirkman’s writing. On top of that Rob Liefeld is my all time favorite comic book artist, so this seemed like a marriage made in Heaven. Throw in the 20-percent discount for FCBD and I decided take chance on it. The Plot: The short version is some dude with over-sized guns and body armor (because it is a Liefeld/Image comic) loses a war in the future but manages to travel back in time to before the bad guys took over. He meets up with his younger self and begins to form a resistance cell against the incoming invasion. Much time travel shenanigans e...

Waiting for the Trade By Bill Miller The Walking Dead Vol. 1 – Days Gone By by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore Collects The Walking Dead # 1 – 6. Why I Bought This: So when the Walking Dead TV show came out I remember rolling my eyes at the ads and thinking “great, more zombies.” While I enjoy the occasional intelligent horror movie, I had my fill of zombies sometime between the Dawn of the Dead remake and Land of the Dead , which despite being by Romero I’ve still never seen because there were just too many damn zombie movies in the three year period leading up to it. I haven’t completely abandoned the genre, but I’m in no rush to experience it anymore—for example I saw Zombieland for the first time this past Halloween and Planet Terror for the first time this past February. With the TV show I was content to ignore it but it started getting great reviews in Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone and really everywhere so my attitude changed to I’ll rent DVD season on...