Review – Five Ghosts: The Haunting of Fabian Gray
Every now and again there's a buzz book that lives up to the hype. When I first the announcements for Five Ghosts: The Haunting...
REVIEW: ‘Shoot This’, FORCEFIELD FOTOCOMIX, #.01
Photocomix are strange creatures. They look like a hybrid of a photography medium and a comics format, and when you spot them in the...
Review: Captain Marvel #11 – Warp Speed
The relaunch of Captain Marvel, with Carol Danvers in the title role, started off very shakily. The first six-issues told a time-travel story which...
Constantine #1 – The Six-Word Review
CONSTANTINE #1
Written by JEFF LEMIRE and RAY FAWKES
Art by RENATO GUEDES
Colored by MARCELO MAIOLO
Lettered by SAL CIPRIANO
Edited by KATIE KUBERT and BRIAN CUNNINGHAM
Covers by...
Review – Constantine #1, This Is Not Your Father’s Hellblazer
A preview for Constantine #1 was widely circulated last month and the reaction around these parts was somewhat less than enthusiastic. IIRC, someone in...
REVIEW: The Private Eye #1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin
The Private Eye #1 isn't about a detective - it's literally about people looking for privacy from the public gaze. Following a somewhat simplistic...
Mini Marvels: Fearless Defenders, Cheesecake for Women!
Marvel continue to tempt me with their extraordinary cover designs that are leaving many other publishers in the shade. Coming to Fearless Defenders blind...
REVIEW: When the Going Gets Tough in HELHEIM #1, TRIGGER GIRL 6, SLEDGE-HAMMER 44
I noticed a common feature in the comics I was reading this week, a feature that made them all compelling as stories: the role...
REVIEW: “Do I Really Want My Name Associated with SEX AND VIOLENCE?”
by LTZ
A while back, the Beat’s own Henry Barajas – tireless observer of Kickstarted comics that he is – took some time to preview...
Review – Revisiting the New 52 TPBs Part 2 (Animal Man, Captain Atom, DCU...
The local library consortium got a whole bunch of New 52 Vol. 1's, so I'm going through and catching up on a few things...
REVIEW: Changing the Dynamic with ‘Halcyon and Tenderfoot’
I was sent the first issue of this miniseries from Art Heroes a few months ago, where it seemed like a fun, all-ages series...
Review: Relish- food and comics, a happy marriage
Relish by Lucy Knisley
First Second
A few years ago, if you were told about the rise of the Internet and asked to predict one of...
