I was looking over the CrossGen’s January releases and I have to again NEVER MIND – THIS LINK IS DEAD –restate my case that CrossGen is undergoing a period of strong self-improvement. Most of the vague-titled books that I don’t read are gone, and what’s left is a lean fighting line-up of some truly great books. Yes, a bunch are by My Main Man Chuck Dixon (although two of his books were also hit), but there’s also the creepy “Route 666”, the new riff on James Bond “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”, “Abadazad” (tapping into the young people’s magic fiction that is so hot right now, with “Lord of the Rings” and “Harry Potter”), and CrossGen’s best-selling Greg Land babes-and-bows book “Sojourn”.

And I can’t recommend highly enough two of the collected editions: “El Cazador” #1-3 are collected in a very inexpensive $5 TPB, and the “Silken Ghost” mini-series is now offered in book form. In this story, Silken Ghost and four other -Ghost apprentices must journey back to the home of their teacher to save him from a tormentor.

All in all, it looks like I’ll be spending more money on CrossGen than ever before. The big question is, is this enough to save this company from the financial hardships it has encountered?