The second installment of this new Image series continues in the same maniacal spirit as issue #1, as authors Jean-Paul Bonjour and Jeff Roenning keep the story moving at a furious pace. This issue is largely spent establishing the scenario…
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Image Comics In Review: The Manhattan Projects, The Strange Talent Of Luther Strode, Xenoholics, Butcher Baker The Righteous Maker
Following up on last week’s reviews, here’s another batch of Image comics you should be reading. These ones are all geared toward older audiences (lots of mature themes, not much family-friendly material), so they’re not really suitable for puritanical killjoys…
Tiny Titans: 50 Issues of Awesomeness
Anyone who’s ever been to a playground knows that preschool kids love superheroes. Look in a major toy store, clothing store, or Halloween costume catalog and you’ll see that 3 year old boys all want to be Spiderman, Superman, Batman……
Image Comics In Review: Peter Panzerfaust, No Place Like Home, Gladstone’s School For World Conquerors, Alpha Girl, Li’l Depressed Boy, Last Of The Greats
Image Comics is on a serious winning streak right now, with a catalog that boasts a wild variety of titles, each strange and unique and totally different that all the others. You see, Image operates as a forum for creator-owned…
Comic Reviews: Wonder Woman, Legion Of Monsters, The Shade
Wonder Woman, issues 1-3 (DC Comics, 2011) Blood. Guts. Intrigue. Meticulous storytelling. Betrayal. Fights. And lots of hairpin plot twists. After three issues, Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang’s new Wonder Woman is a rousing success on every level. Azzarello’s writing…
Comic Review: Sacrifice #1 (self-published, 2011)
Sacrifice is a new self-published comic from artist Dalton Rose and writer Sam Humphries (recently acclaimed for his work on Our Love Is Real). It’s the story of a young man who suffers from epilepsy and has a penchant…
Comic Review: Doc Bizarre, M.D. (Image Comics, 2011)
Doc Bizarre, M.D. is the latest transmission from the twisted mind of Joe Casey (acclaimed author of Gødland, Automatic Kafka, The Intimates, Butcher Baker the Righteous Maker, and other strange and wonderful comics). It tells the story of the eponymous…
Joe Simon: My Life In Comics (Titan Books, 2011)
Joe Simon is a legend in the world of comic books. He co-created Captain America (and many other memorable characters), worked with many of the field’s most important names, and stands as one of the first artists to recognize the…
Comic Review: Screamland (Image Comics, 2011)
Monsters are real. That’s made clear within the first couple pages of this series. Those old-time film boogiemen, they weren’t imaginary. They starred in those movies, playing the roles that were written for them. And now that they’ve gotten old,…
Gene Colan, 1926-2011
Gene Colan passed away a few days ago. I can’t possibly do justice to this man’s life and career in the space of a few lines of type. He was one of the finest artists ever to grace comic books. …