Tag: Reviews

By Jeffrey O. Gustafson Kamala Khan is a sixteen year old girl from Jersey City. She has the same pressures as any teenager: friends, family, school, parties. She desires independence and autonomy while her parents...

Look what arrived in my post today, and just in time for Christmas too! The just released Deluxe edition of Happy! with those all important new pages, and some nice extras for fun. And...

One fiercely intelligent young woman, one city in which superheroes and villains are the norm, and one comic in which diversity is as natural as the real world, with one kickass female hero to...

This isn't a convention write-up. Instead, it's a review roundup of every new comic I came across at Thought Bubble 2013. Because I want to share them with as many people as possible, and...

By Jeffrey O. Gustafson At this point in the morning of Black Friday, so many of you have already done your shopping. But if you are like me, you don't celebrate any of this stuff...

By Jeffrey O. Gustafson Damn Events. Maybe it's just a marketing term, but as I noted above, it's a matter of scale. I'm sick of the term, and a little tired of the Events themselves,...

By Jeffrey O. Gustafson I guess I'll start off by admitting I haven't really been reading writer Rick Remender's Uncanny Avengers. I read the first arc largely because of John Cassaday's presence on art, but...

Injustice: Gods Among Us is something of an anomaly in the world of super hero comics. It's a breakout hit for original digital work, lording over the sales rankings on several sites and platforms....

Earlier this year, Soaring Penguin Press published the first complete English translation of Régis Loisel’s classic French series of bande dessinée, Peter Pan, a dark prequel to the JM Barrie fairy tale that pushes...

If we're doing Halloween, then that seems like a great chance for me to catch up on Afterlife with Archie, the company's first mature comic set in the world of their mascot. Now, I...

It's always nice to review something which shakes things around a little, and I'm sure nobody would have expected Task Force Rad Squad to show up on The Beat. Written by Caleb Goellner and...

I find Dash Shaw's work to be strangely invigorating. I admit I had some reservations when I first saw the daunting heft of his Bottomless Belly Button, with its absurdly extended passage of a man running and profusely sweating, drawn in a style so crunchy that it makes Gary Panter look slick. The idea that all we cartoonists must now draw books that are at least three inches thick and that take several years of deprivation to accomplish thanks to the efforts of obviously dedicated workhorses such as Shaw and Craig Thompson was not a pretty one. But I was eventually to resign myself to this new order.