March 28, 2012• Books, Comics Reviews
Mike Mignola has never shied away from teasing us with Hellboy’s apparent destiny, to rule this world as Hell on Earth. Hellboy, it was...
February 22, 2012• Books, Comics Reviews
Maybe someone more in tune with themselves than I am can find some kind of hidden meaning in Archaia’s Tale of Sand, an adaptation of an...
February 6, 2012• Books, Comics Reviews
In Scarlet Book 1, Brian Michael Bendis wants to be a dangerous storyteller. He wants to be edgy and relevant and maybe even thought...
January 27, 2012• Books, Comics Reviews
Genetically bred human/animal hybrids, the Elephantmen were created for war. Imagine hippopotamuses and rhinoceroses that walk like men...
June 28, 2011• Books, Comics Reviews
The most startling element about American Vampire Volume 2 is how different it is from the first book in this series by Scott Snyder,...
April 27, 2011• Books, Comics Reviews
If you were to ask what makes Greg Rucka a strong writer, my answer would be that it is everything that he leaves out of his stories....
April 13, 2011• Books, Comics Reviews
Fear Itself #1 supposedly reflects our real world fears only, you know, with costumed heroes and mythological gods running around as well....
April 6, 2011• Books, Comics Reviews
What kind of pretty girl gets a job digging graves? The answer is simple; the kind of girl who needs to know where fresh bodies are...
February 8, 2011• Books, Comics Reviews
Let’s tell it like it is. Out of all the superheroes, only Superman can say he has gone up against the greatest of all time. It...
January 19, 2011• Books, Comics Reviews
Jeff Lemire’s characters, no matter how old or how young they may be, all carry the weight of the world on their shoulders. Just look...
January 3, 2011• Books, Comics Reviews
Since the days that Stan Lee first wrote him back in the early 1960s, The Mighty Thor as always been a brash and boisterous character. He...
December 3, 2010• Books, Comics Reviews
After reading Grandville: Mon Amour, there’s one thing that puzzles me; why are most of Bryan Talbot’s characters in this book animals?...
November 16, 2010• Books, Comics Reviews
What would you do if it was going to be impossible to commit a crime? Not just hard or tough but flatout impossible? What if your own...
November 8, 2010• Books, Comics Reviews
As Bruce Wayne returns to the present day fold in Batman and Robin #16, joining Dick Grayson and his son Damien for an epic battle with...
October 29, 2010• Books, Comics Reviews
Sometimes it’s not the story itself but how the story is told that counts. In The Outfit, Darwyn Cooke doesn’t let himself be hemmed in...
October 15, 2010• Books, Comics Reviews
In Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner’s Red, Paul Moses is a monster. The former CIA operative who can’t escape the memories of the acts he...
October 8, 2010• Books, Comics Reviews
There are lots of X-Men books on the stands right now, and Remender and Opeña’s "Uncanny X-Force" is the ass-kicker of the bunch....
September 28, 2010• Books, Comics Reviews
The Amazing Spider-Man: The Gauntlet Vol. 5 — Lizard begins with a couple of short stories by Fred Van Lente, Jefte Palo, Roger Stern...
September 17, 2010• Books, Comics Reviews
I’m kind of amazed at how much of Marvel’s Golden Age roots are lost to the past. Thanks to Roy Thomas’s 1980-era efforts like All...
September 10, 2010• Books, Comics Reviews
Is it too much to ask for an explanation? To want some kind of closure to a story? In Daytripper #1 from DC’s Vertigo comic line, Fabio...
September 3, 2010• Books, Comics Reviews
Naoki Urasawa likes to create questions in his stories. In Monster, it was what wass Johann’s endgame? In Pluto, who is killing the...
August 20, 2010• Books, Comics Reviews
Warren Ellis and John Cassaday know where the bodies are buried. Not literal bodies but the fictional corpses of the 20th century heroes...
August 13, 2010• Books, Comics Reviews
There are two important questions you’ve got to ask yourself going into writer Matt Fraction and artist Salvador Larroca’s The...
August 4, 2010• Books, Comics Reviews
There are two stories that Jason is telling in Werewolves of Montpellier. In the first story, the thief Sven prowls the rooftops of...
July 23, 2010• Books, Comics Reviews
Coming out of DC’s Sinestro Corp War, which was a surprisingly organic event, I had high hopes for Geoff Johns’ followup Blackest...
July 19, 2010• Books, Comics Reviews
I don’t know many comics that actually smolder. Beginning with the cover of Parker: The Man With The Getaway Face, as we barely see...
July 9, 2010• Books, Comics Reviews
One book is about a girl entering school and the other is about a boy graduating and beginning his job but Twin Spica Volume 2 and Saturn...
July 2, 2010• Books, Comics Reviews
Scott Cederlund reflects on the state of the Sunday funnies, and reviews DC's newly compiled Wednesday Comics series....
June 25, 2010• Books, Comics Reviews
Depending on who you listen to and/or read, the dawning of the digital age of mainstream comics is either the new lifeline the comic...
June 18, 2010• Books, Comics Reviews
The first Phonogram book Rue Britannia was about music on a cerebral level as Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie pulled us along on a...
