Tag: Reviews
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 ROD REIS, IVAN REIS and JOE PRADO
Constantine does not have...
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 central conceit, Brian K Vaughan, Marcos Martin and Muntsa Vicente...
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 of recent continuity, I had high hopes for this all...
Review: The Villains Kick Things off in Shadowman #5
The most recent book to return from Valiant, Shadowman started a second arc this week, with issue #5 from Justin Jordan and Patrick Zircher. The series has made an effective return, with some good...
REVIEW: Breaking the Mold? ANIMAL MAN #18 and SWAMP THING #18
The end of the ROT WORLD crossover arc raises the question that Umberto Eco posed in his famous essay on Superman in 1972: can there really be change in a superhero universe? Doesn’t that...
Review: The Adventures of Superhero Girl
Sometimes a book comes out that I'm so ridiculously excited about I get paranoid that I'm going to be disappointed in some way. And then it arrives and turns out to be even better...
Advance Review: Viva Lost Vegas #1 (spoiler-free!)
Reuniting the team behind the Eisner award winning Return of the Dapper Men, Lost Vegas is a fun mix of science fiction space play and hustler inspired shenanigans Oh, and it is very, very pretty.
Writer Jim McCann...
Review: X-Men Legacy #6 FEATURING PIXIE
X-Men Legacy completes the first arc, with writer Si Spurrier taking its lead character - which, I still can't really believe, is Professor X's son Legion - into a new direction, having thoroughly established...
Mini Marvels: Hawkeye #8 – My Bad Penny
Hey bro. Bro! You reading Hawkguy bro? Missin' out bro.
So I'm not exactly a new Marvel reader. I've read decades of old titles and kept up with Daredevil til a few years back. I'm...
ADVANCE REVIEW: Keeping Things Real in THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, Book 2
Vertigo released Book 1 of its THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO graphic novel adaptation of the award-winning posthumously published Millennium Series novels by Stieg Larsson in 2012 in hardback, begging the question: do...
Review: 2000AD 1821: Happy Anniversary, Tharg
Last Wednesday's issue of 2000AD was special not just because I don't think any serialised comic has ever had an issue one thousand, eight hundred and twenty-one before, but also because it's the 36th...
REVIEW: A Hero Reborn in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #0.1
Everyone’s a little puzzled by the strange choice of number on this issue, somewhere between a #0 traditional origin story and a #1 launch of what’s rumored to be a major contributor to the...
