Category: Comic Reviews

Graphic Bits Reviews: Grayson #1, New Suicide Squad #1, Spider-Man 2099 #1, Spread #1

New Suicide Squad #1

Don’t have time for long reviews of comics? Then check out Graphic Bits: bite sized chunks of comic book goodness designed to get behind the panels and into your hearts. It’s a week (9 July 2014) of debuts from the three top dogs in the funny book business. Nightwing gets the cold winter shoulder in Grayson #1 …

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Graphic Bits Reviews: Rocket Raccoon #1 and Legendary Star-Lord #1

Rocket Raccoon #1 - Skottie Young

Don’t have time for long reviews of comics? Then check out Graphic Bits: bite sized chunks of comic book goodness designed to get behind the panels and into your hearts. With the pending release of the Guardians of the Galaxy film, Marvel are making sure we are all aware of that fact. This week (2 July …

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Review: Headspace #1

Headspace #1 (Monkeybrain)

A new digital comic takes a trip into a town that has a very unique frame of mind. The only question is: who owns the mind that’s framing it? It’s difficult to put Australian writer Ryan K. Lindsay in a box, such is the nature of his diverse portfolio. While international readers may know him from …

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Review: A Voice in the Dark #1

A Voice in the Dark - Larime Taylor

Larime Taylor’s Kickstarter success story is now an ongoing series. Welcome to Cutter’s Circle. We suspect you’re going to want to stay a while. Originally Kickstarted as Dark Zoey, Larime Taylor‘s A Voice in the Dark drew the attention of such heavy hitters as Gail Simone, Michael Oeming and a stack of other creators around …

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Graphic Bits Reviews: Earth 2 #17, Amazing X-Men #1, Drumhellar #1, Cataclysm #1

Earth 2 #17 - Nicola Scott

Don’t have time for long reviews of comics? Then check out Graphic Bits: bite sized chunks of comic book goodness designed to get behind the panels and into your hearts. This week (6 November 2013), DC Comics brings an all-new, all-Australian team aboard for Earth 2 #17! THEN the Bamfs attack in Amazing X-Men #1 (Marvel), …

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Local Focus: Unmasked #3

Unmasked #3 - Gary Chaloner

Local Focus is all about taking a closer look at recent release Australian comics. This time, we crack open a gritty take on capes that flips the script on the bad guys and literally punches the heroes in the face. The earlier issues of Unmasked recently got highlighted in the ABC documentary Comic Book Heroes, …

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Graphic Bits Reviews: Cataclysm #0.1, Damian: Son of Batman #1, Forever Evil A.R.G.U.S. #1, Green Lantern Annual #2, Infinity #5, The Raven and The Red Death, Saga #15 and X-Men: Battle of the Atom #2

Ultimate Comics: Cataclysm #0.1

Don’t have time for long reviews of comics? Then check out Graphic Bits: bite sized chunks of comic book goodness designed to get behind the panels and into your hearts. This week (30 October 2013) it’s the beginning of the end in Ultimate Comics: Cataclysm #0.1, and maybe the other way around in Infinity #5. Another ending of sorts can be …

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Review: The Sandman Overture #1

The Sandman: Overture #1

Neil Gaiman’s highly anticipated return to The Sandman marks a revival of the Vertigo line, and some of the most stunning art you’ll see this year. It’s hard to believe that it has been 25 years since the debut of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, one of the author’s first seminal works and the flagship of …

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Local Focus – Halloween Edition: Home Brew Vampire Bullets #0

Home Brew Vampire Bullets - Harold Holt

Some of the best and brightest Australian comic book talent get grim and gritty in this new quarterly anthology that mixes horror, politics and a decent dose of humour. The anthology has a long tradition on the local scene, the birthplace of many underground comix and superstar artists alike, going at least as far back …

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Local Focus: The List

The List - Paul Bedford

As one of the first Australian graphic novels to be optioned for an international feature film, Paul Bedford‘s The List is a significant chapter for the local comic book scene. It’s certainly made a splash here in Australia, where Bedford’s regular appearances at conventions and book stores have helped push the book into the buyer’s …

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Graphic Bits Reviews: Pretty Deadly #1, Velvet #1 and Rat Queens #2

Pretty Deadly #1

Don’t have time for long reviews of comics? Then check out Graphic Bits: bite sized chunks of comic book goodness designed to get behind the panels and into your hearts. While the major publishers are filling their pages with villains, battling atoms and infinite crises, Image Comics this week has largely concentrated on crafting some monthly …

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