Tag: Reviews
Monsters, Zines, and MonsterZines with Stephen Bissette
Weird tales and comics naturally go together. From the days of pulp stories with enthralling illustrations, through EC’s Wertham-harried evocation of the fantastic and...
A Ghost Tour of RED LIGHT PROPERTIES with Dan Goldman
RED LIGHT PROPERTIES, now available in its first five issues through Monkeybrain Comics on Comixology, is a genre mixer with a gritty dose of...
The Beat Comic Reviews for 28/11/12: My Little Pony and Hellblazer, together at last!
This week saw a number of big comic releases from Marvel and DC, but who cares when this was the week My Little Pony: Friendship...
Lego Batman Review: Dynamic Duo Funhouse Escape!
As an early Christmas present for my cousins, who live far away in the south, ugh, I decided to give their mum a break and...
“The Disappointed Optimist”, A Review of Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts
by Glen Downey
Just over an hour into Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts, the charismatic chain-smoking troubadour of transhumanism observes that he isn’t—as some have suggested—a...
ADVANCE REVIEW: Iron Man #1
Iron Man enters the Marvel Now orbit with a relaunch, shiny artist, and British writer at the helm. Kieron Gillen and Greg Land are...
Good Work, Comics: Post Halloween Edition
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...
New and Noteworthy: 5 Self-Published Singles
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...
Advance Review: Happy #1
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...
Valiant Launch Part II: Reviewing Harbinger #1
Last month, Valiant had a pretty successful start, with X-O Manowar selling out 45K copies and going into a 2nd printing. This week, the second Valiant title dropped, in the form of Harbingers #1. Let's have a look at it.
Review: Battleship (2012)
Oh, Alexander Skarsgard. I could watch a whole movie of him standing on the bridge of a ship and giving tense orders. "Starboard!" "Aft!" "Hard to port!" "Fire when ready!"
Watch Episode 1 of Comic Book Men right here–if you dare
After debuting to encouraging ratings, the entire first episode of Kevin Smith's Comic Book Men reality show is now streaming, so you can catch up with all the inaction you missed.
