Review: ‘5,000 Kilometers Per Second’ untangles relationships with elegance
In 2010 Grand Prize winner at the Angoulême Comics Festival in France and the Lucca Comics Festival in Italy 5,000 Km Per Second, Italian cartoonist Manuele Fior...
DC Reborn– Week Two: Reviewing ACTION COMICS, AQUAMAN, DETECTIVE COMICS, FLASH, & WONDER WOMAN
The world has been reborn.
Last week's release of DC Universe: Rebirth #1 kicked off a new era of storytelling for the publisher. The house that gave us Batman...
Review: The darker beauty of Cathy G. Johnson’s ‘Gorgeous’
This short, spare, poetic, emotionally brutal piece from Cathy G. Johnson and Koyama Press captures the intersection of three lives, and the unlikely self...
Review: ‘Nod Away’ is human-level science fiction that looks to the big picture
The first in a projected seven-book science fiction series, Joshua W. Cotter’s Nod Away draws you in with the human drama, but keeps the science...
DC Reborn– Week One: Should You Buy BATMAN, GREEN ARROW, SUPERMAN, or GREEN LANTERNS?
Alex Lu and Kyle Pinion dig into the first week of DC's Rebirth #1s to tell you which books break new ground and which stay mired in DC's troubled past.
REVIEW: CIVIL WAR II #1 Sets the Stage for What Might be Marvel’s Best...
Reviewing Bendis' and Marquez's latest foray into the Marvel limelight.
Review: Melissa Mendes’ ‘Lou’ charts family dynamics in a charming, honest way
Massachusetts cartoonist Melissa Mendes has a knack for comics that not only center on kids, but present the world from their points of view...
REVIEW: Scooby Apocalypse #1 is What You Feared
Scooby Apocalypse #1
Plot and Art Breakdowns: Keith Giffen Concept: Jim Lee Script: J.M. DeMatteis
Art: Howard Porter Color: Hi-Fi Letters: Nick J. Nap
This past Wednesday saw the...
Roundtable Review: DC Universe REBIRTH #1
"I look down at it and know without question: I love this world. But there's something missing."
In the five years since DC Comics rebooted...
The Marvel Rundown: The Nature of Freedom and Justice is Challenged in CAPTAIN AMERICA...
This week, two Marvel #1's shipped and they both have one thing in common: amazing cliffhangers that are the product of a long period of careful foreshadowing and preparation. I love it when good plans come together, and boy do they ever in Captain America #1 and Nighthawk #1.
Review: Barbara Yelin’s ‘Irmina’ shows how history destroys us in little ways
Quiet and brooding, while still warm and with a great delicacy, Barbara Yelin’s Irmina takes the author’s own discovery of her grandmother’s World War...
The Marvel Rundown: Civil War II #0 exceeds expectations
Civil War II is a Marvel comic so big that one prequel issue can't possibly cover all the details of the conflict's catalyst. This event, which pits Captain...
