Tag: Reviews
Kubla Comics—a Rotten Tomatoes for Comics?
A new site called Kubla Comics aims to be a review aggregator for comics, with a Rotten Tomatoes-like 0-5 rating system and pages for...
REVIEW: Harbinger Wars #1
Spoilers ahead
And so Valiant enters crossover mini-event territory, with Harbinger Wars and Bloodshot crossing into a storyline called Harbinger Wars. After a year of...
REVIEW: TIME WARP #1, Putting the Vertigo in Sci-Fi
Publishers seem increasingly willing to roll the dice on anthology formats recently. Maybe it’s the success of things like Dark Horse Presents, and the...
REVIEW: Everyone at The Beat Jumps Onto 2000AD Prog 1824
2000AD, the British anthology comic, announced that their most recent issue - last Wednesday's prog 2814 - would be an easy jump-on point for...
Review: Action Comics, the Grant Morrison Edition
Grant Morrison's run on Action Comics has been met with both high praise and no small measure of bewilderment. But this is a legendary...
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: 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: 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....
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...
