Last week, Marvel Comics released Young Avengers #15, the concluding issue of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie’s teen superhero saga. Over the last year, the series built a passionate fanbase for its blend of emotional drama and sweeping action, for…
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New Comic Reviews: Sex Criminals, Numbercruncher
I love comic books. I love the medium, I love the format, I love the potential inherent in words and pictures, of stories bound only by the creators’ imagination. And right now seems to be a particularly good time for…
Hip-Hop Comics: Ron Wimberly’s Prince Of Cats.
Ronald Wimberly’s Prince Of Cats hit bookstore shelves last September, and I picked it up immediately, took it home, and read it that evening. Now, half a year later, I’m still turning it over in my head, constantly revisiting it,…
Comic Review: Alpha Girl #2 (Image Comics, 2012)
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…
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…
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 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…
Comic Review: Our Love Is Real (Image Comics, 2011)
Our Love Is Real is a stand-alone 24 page comic book, an off-kilter, blackly humorous tale about a sex-obsessed dystopian future society and the people who live (and love) there. The world is a shambles, and political factions are categorized…
Pop Music Comics: Twenty-Seven, Li’l Depressed Boy
Image Comics has a well-earned reputation as a home for both mainstream superhero titles and artist-driven alternative works, and over the past decade have published some of the most exciting and enjoyable comics I’ve run across. Many of these have…