Written by Jeff Lemire, Art by Andrea Sorrentino Erik Larsen said something profound the other day on Facebook: “Every issue of every comic book series is a good jumping on point. Yes, there’ll be a few unanswered questions. Man the fuck up. What relationship have you ever had where you knew everything about a person [...]
Art and Stories by Art Baltazar, Franco, Scoot Mcmahon, Chris ‘ZOD’ Smits, Denver Brubaker, Alejandro Rosado, Matt Brazee, Marc Hammond, Mel Dale, and Jamie Cosley Fans of the long running ‘Tiny Titans’ series of DC fear no more! Aw Yeah Comics #1 delivers most of everything you loved about Johnny DC’s favorite series (long after [...]
Written by Kieron Gillen, Art by Dale Eaglesham and Guru I may never have been so conflicted on a book in my life. Kieron Gillen’s Iron Man is easily the oddest duck I’ve had the pleasure (or contempt?) to read of the Marvel Now line. It’s fitting that the first of the ‘The Secret Origin [...]
Written by James Tynion IV, Art by Julius Gopez There was an old episode of “Everybody Loves Raymond” where Ray’s brother was enamored by a new “cult” that taught him to be happy about everything. I tried to channel that episode as I read “Red Hood and the Outsiders #20”. It didn’t work. Start to [...]
Written by Charles Soule, Art by Kano and Alvaro Lopez When last I wrote of Swamp Thing (and his brother book, Animal Man), I was ready quite honestly to pitch it to the wind. Scott Snyder and Jeff Lemire’s epic amalgamation of the Green and Red turned out to be nothing more than a terrible [...]
Written by Dan Slott. Art by Ryan Stegman Oh ho ho… won’t the Parker fan-boys be in a tizzy. Spoiler Alert: this Snarky Synopsis is gonna dive deep into the recesses of Superior Spider-Man #9. If you don’t want to be spoiled, let me give you the skinny: It’s a great book. You should be [...]
Story and Art by by Kevin Eastman, Script by Tom Waltz For those who follow my column at ComicMix, they will no doubt know my love of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I grew up with them. I have essentially followed their careers from their first cartoon up until the present. I admit though, [...]
Written and Drawn by Dan Dougherty, Colors by Wesley Wong I have come to relish the independent scene recently. It is because of books like Revival, Nowhere Men, Clone, and now Touching Evil. And while Dan Dougherty’s book may not sit right between Image imprints on shelf somewhere (yet), it could easily do so and [...]
Written by Jason Aaron, Art by Simone Bianchi I freely admit my lack of knowledge with all things ‘Marvel Cosmic’ has led me to an odd impasse with Jason Aaron’s ‘Thanos Rising #1′. Given that I never read the Infinity Gauntlet or really any Marvel space book (save for the Guardians of the Galaxy .1 [...]
Written by Matt Fraction, Art by Michael and Laura Allred If ever I had an argument whether art is as important as writing in a comic, I need only look at Marvel Now’s FF. Matt Fraction, as good as he was on the Invincible Iron Man, has floundered terribly with me over his current [...]
Written by Tim Seeley, Art by Mike Norton It’s strange to me when I pick up my books. Every week, I like to read them in order of mental weight. In lesser terms: I like to read the dumb stuff first. Why? Because dumb is easy. Dumb is fun. I start my review this [...]
Written by Jonathan Hickman, Art by Dustin Weaver and Justin Ponsor Avengers #8 is the continuation of Jonathan Hickman’s love affair with grand, futuristic universe building. On par with all previous chapters… the book itself is a modestly paced step forward in what’s proving to be a years worth of story-telling being hurled at [...]
Written by Ray Fawkes, Pencils by Daniel Sampere Oh Batgirl #18, how I loathe thee! Let me count the ways. Is it the ham-fisted scripting so overtly melodramatic it makes my brain smoke? Is it the “Requiem” badge on the front cover that barely gets roped into the book in the most forced way possible? [...]
Written by Brian Michael Bendis. Art by Steve Mc Niven, John Dell, and Justin Ponsor. Oh, how I should have known. For those not in-the-know, the “Point 1” initiative of Marvel is a clever way of saying “you don’t REALLY need this, but still, c’mon nerdlinger!” Given how light my load of books were this [...]
Written by Mark Waid, Art by Leinil Francis Yu, Gerry Alanguilan and Sunny Gho It’s common amongst comic creators to declare Mark Waid is evil. It’s a common declaration because it’s true. No one else working today makes it look so damned easy. Maybe I’m still in the ‘honeymoon’ phase with his Indestructible Hulk, but [...]
