Review: Aama is intelligent, mind-bending science fiction with a core of humanity
Taking the idea of awareness and screwing with it from multiple vantage points — self-awareness, awareness of the space around you, familial awareness, scientific...
The Marvel Rundown: The Battle for Wakanda Begins as Readers Discover the Origin of...
No other series at Marvel has been promoted better this year than this week's new release, Black Panther. That's a statement I never thought I...
Review: Michael DeForge’s ‘Big Kids’ tells us something about ourselves
Millennials are often portrayed by the older generation - my own, to be clear - as a generation of victims. Like most cross-generational proclamations,...
The Marvel Rundown: Does X-Men ’92’s Second #1 Hit the Sophmore Slump?
X-Men ‘92 was one of the hidden gems of Marvel's Secret Wars event tie-in comics. The creative team for the series, including Chris Sims and Chad...
Review: New York Review of Books’ new comics line is off to an amazing...
It was a fantastic day for artful, intelligent comics when the New York Review of Books added comics to its publishing line. The focus so far...
The Marvel Rundown: It’s a bird, it’s a plane…it’s…WHO?
He’s the character that we might not actually want or deserve, but he was a staple of Jonathan Hickman’s (Avengers) lineup, that's right...Hyperion now has his...
The Beat’s Weekly Toy Review/Preview: Many things POPPING in June
By: Nicholas Eskey
Welcome back boys and girls to another exciting installment of the Beat’s Weekly Toy Review/Preview! Since there is just too many toys...
The Marvel Rundown: Why does the new Iron Man comic inspire Hulk rage?
Ain't no rest for the wicked...or the Marvel Universe, for that matter. This week, the publisher launched a second Iron Man ongoing series, with Brian Michael...
Review: Roman Muradov’s ‘The End Of A Fence’ is cryptic, but beautiful
Immensely talented Russian illustrator Roman Muradov has quickly established himself as one of the most complex cartoonists around, both visually and narratively. In Muradov’s...
The Marvel Rundown: Marvel’s best new book will take you by surprise
Marvel characters are becoming more relevant everyday. Since the Guardians of the Galaxy characters became a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, one question has been littering the minds...
Review: Backderf’s ‘Trashed’ is definitely our treasure
For most of my life, the comings and goings of garbage was pretty much a mystery to me. When I was a kid, I...
Review: Shuji Sogabe & Atlus’s Persona 4: Vol. 1
By: Nicholas Eskey
Writers: Shuji Sogabe/Atlus Games
Artist: Shuji Sogabe
Publisher: Udon Entertainment
Checking into the realm of manga, I’m very excited to talk about Shuji Sogabe’s Persona 4: Volume...
