May 26 2013
Don’t have time for full 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 (22 May 2013) is so big that we’ve gone into a second column! For the other one, see here, you! First up, we check out Five …
May 25 2013
It’s the end of an era as Geoff Johns delivers his final sensational issue of Green Lantern after a definitive decade-long run. As the opening montage to this oversized anniversary issue reminds us, writer Geoff Johns has fundamentally changed the Green Lantern universe. Under his guidance, we witnessed the rebirth of Hal Jordan, the resurgence …
May 25 2013
With the Age of Ultron event winding to a stumbling close, and Avengers A.I. to follow not long afterwards, Marvel have been teasing a interlude issue for the last few months called Age of Ultron #10 A.I. Today, Marvel released the four pages of art and a brief description, and it seems that it is …
May 24 2013
Don’t have time for full 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 (22 May 2013) is another big one! First up, we check out a Grant Morrison-less Batman Incorporated #11 (DC Comics), a conclusion of sorts in Daredevil #26 …
May 23 2013
A fable-turned-video-game-turned-comic is an effective re-imagining of Red Riding Hood set in feudal Japan from American McGee. It’s often very easy to dismiss licences that are connected with video games, as they are typically less interested in storytelling than they are in selling games. Yet the comic that accompanies American McGee’s online game Akaneiro: Demon Hunters is …
May 23 2013
Joe Casey swaps sex for drugs as a slacker get super and continues to subvert the perception of modern superhero comics. Since the 1980s, a sub-genre of superhero comics have grown increasing darker and cynical, deconstructing the core elements to demonstrate disillusionment with the ideals that funny books once aspired to. In a post The Dark Knight Returns and …
May 23 2013
DC makes another grab at being, like, totally zeitgeist and stuff, and this time is a little closer to being on the money. A few weeks ago, DC launched The Movement, the first in a series of books aimed at grabbing some of the Occupy coin. At the very least, it was designed to appeal …
May 21 2013
Along with Satellite Sam, one of the more interesting solicitations for August 2013 from Image Comics is the Ed Brisson (Comeback) and Johnnie Christmas series Sheltered. A new press release on Image’s site has given us a few more details about this upcoming series, including the inspiration from the world of doomsday “preppers”. Debuting in July, Image describes the intriguing …
May 20 2013
One of the titles that has us most excited this year is Pretty Deadly from writer Kelly Sue DeConnick (Captain Marvel, Avengers Assemble) and artist Emma Ríos (Doctor Strange: Season One). First announced by Image Comics back in July last year, the creator-owned book from the Osborn team promised to be a Sergio Leone inspired western …
May 19 2013
Don’t have time for full 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 (15 May 2013) is another big one! First up, we check in with Age of Ultron #8 (Marvel) just as it loses the plot. Then it’s back to the …
May 18 2013
A new crime series with a twist from Dark Horse leaves us with more questions than answers. Sounds like a perfect start to a new series. Not to be confused with Image Comics Dream Merchants #1, also out this week, the new title from Jai Nitz (The Green Hornet) could almost be described as a …
