Vertigo Gets Back To Its Roots: A Look At Coffin Hill: Forest of the...
There was a time, early on, when Vertigo was considered more of a horror and dark fantasy line. Swamp Thing, Hellblazer and Sandman all being...
Batman Eternal Vs. Futures End, DC’s Two Very Different Weekly Comics
You probably already know that DC has made weekly comics a big part of their strategy as they wind down their time in NYC...
The Best Flash Gordon Comic In Quite Some Time
Flash Gordon has been around for quite awhile. You've got the newspaper strip going back to the 1930s. Switching over to non-reprint comics, King...
Review: Some Picks from the Spring Oily Bundle
It's hard to convince me to not contribute to the growing number of small press comic subscriptions--every season there seems to be even more...
The Genre-Bending World of Hinterkind (Reviewing the V. 1 TPB, “The Waking World”)
Vertigo's new fantasy-ish title Hinterkind recently released its first trade paperback collection, The Waking World. If you only glanced at the covers, it's probably not...
Advance Review: Inhuman #1 bears an Uncanny resemblance – updated
From the creative team of Charles Soule, Joe Madureira, Marte Gracia and Clayton Cowles, Inhuman #1 finally sees release this week, and Marvel have...
REVIEW: NYC Basic Tips and Etiquette by Nathan W. Pyle
NYC Basic Tips and Etiquette
Nathan W. Pyle
William Morrow/HarperCollins
$10, 144 pages
ISBN 978-0-06-230311-0
I kept expecting this book of cartoon tips to be funny and it wasn’t. Then I realized it wasn’t meant to be funny. It was meant to be what the title says: tips and etiquette.
Review: The Nonadult Delight of Miss Hennipin
The idea for Miss Hennipin, a new release from Sonatina's Andy Douglas Day, began as a summer day's unassuming illustrative dalliance and briskly developed...
REVIEW: Avengers Undercover #1– out of the arena
Written by: Dennis Hopeless
Art by : Kev Walker
Colors by: Jean Francois Beaulieu
Publisher by: Marvel
By Matt O'Keefe
Avengers Undercover is a direct sequel to Avengers Arena,...
Review: Marvel’s got backstory in New Batch of #1s (Moon Knight, Magneto, Wolverine &...
Marvel released three new #1s this week. Revivals of Moon Knight and Magneto and a new first issue of Wolverine & The X-men that...
The Aesthetic Hybridity of Fumio Obata’s ‘Just So Happens’
Just So Happens
By Fumio Obata
Published by Jonathan Cape
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Upon first impression of Fumio Obata's new graphic novel, Just So Happens, I was struck...
Mike Taylor: NO/FUTURE
“Culture seeks narrators and fiction is a narrative prerogative.”
This quote is supplemented above a two image spread, each featuring brushstrokes of a blackened sea...
