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…
Tag: Image Comics
New York Comic Con 2011: the panels
From Thursday the 13th to Sunday the 16th of October, Manhattan’s Javits Center was taken over by New York Comic Con, and my weekend was spent wandering through the building, meeting people, conversing, looking at comics and books and artwork,…
Pop Music Comics: Marvel Super Special (KISS, The Beatles, Rock And Rule)
In 1977, Marvel Comics launched a new publication: a full-color magazine-format title entitled Marvel Super Special. This title was intended to showcase stand-alone stories that were too long to fit in a normal 32 page comic, and to provide Marvel…
Pop Music Comics: Phonogram
I’ve been waiting to write about Phonogram. There are so many rock and roll comics to cover, so many different books with different approaches, and this one looms large. Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie’s series is, in my mind, the…
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…
Comic Book Mini-Reviews, March 2011
Herculian by Erik Larsen (published by Image Comics) Wow. An oversized thing that looks on the surface like about the most generic superhero comic book imaginable, but inside is anything but. I’m a little torn, on the one hand wishing…