Reviews

Nothing is safe anymore, is it? The world was rocked once more this week by a series of pop-culture calamities, proving without a shadow...

While Shadowman #1 isn't due out for a couple weeks, I had an advance look at the comic.  And it's pretty good.  We ran a preview...

Is there nowhere in the world of culture which can stay positive for more than five minutes!? This week we found out that not...

EASY PIECES: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ME & YOU, by Neil Dvorak Neil Dvorak’s series EASY PIECES premiered and continues to appear on the...

Mild spoilers below for the issue, which will be released tomorrow. Uncanny Avengers carries the weight of the Marvel Universe upon it. Not just the...

When last we saw our stalwart treasure seeker, he was riding the subway, reading comics which he had found in the discount bins at...

By Todd Allen The Tower Chronicles: Geisthawk is the first in a series of graphic albums from Legendary Comics concerning a monster hunter named Tower. ...

By Steve Morris Happy marks the first creator-owned story from Grant Morrison in a while, with the writer busy reworking Batman and Superman over the...

By Todd Allen I found something unexpected in my in-box yesterday.  A digital comic called "Watson and Holmes."  That title might not always catch my...

When the teasers for Archer and Armstrong #1 came out, there was a little bit of noise from the political parts of the web about what an awful liberal smear job the book was because of some villains billing themselves as the 1%. I'd gotten a good laugh out of villains calling themselves the 1% and wearing golden masks of bulls and bears (an obvious stock market joke) and I figured the usual noisy political types might be over-reacting. Come to find out, Archer and Armstrong is a much more political book than I was expecting. It's also utterly hilarious. Unless you're a dogmatic Republican with limited-to-no sense of humor. If you're one of those, stay FAR away from this comic. It will set you off.

Something that may have gotten lost in the shuffle of Comicon was the release of Bloodshot #1, the third title from Valiant's relaunch. Valiant went raiding Marvel again for the creative team: Duane Swierczynski (Iron Fist, Cable, and more recently Birds of Prey) is the writer, Manuel Garcia (probably best known for runs on Raven and Checkmate) is penciling with Arturo Lozzi, Stefano Gaudiano (all sorts of Marvel titles... plus X-O Manowar) is inking.

Does the first issue of Matt Fraction and David Aja's new Hawkeye series... sigh.... hit the target?