Tag: Reviews

One fiercely intelligent young woman, one city in which superheroes and villains are the norm, and one comic in which diversity is as natural...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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.

There are no new issues of Villain's Month left from DC, and business goes back to business this week. But there were six issues...

I hadn't seen anything about this new series from Monkeybrain, but it appears to be an anthology of western cowboy stories featuring an assortment...