Aug 09 2013
J. Michael Straczynski launches another book in the Joe’s Comics line, although it is one that might just live up to its title. The deconstruction of the superhero genre in the pages of comic books continues unabated, with several titles this year already posing the question of ‘what happens when the thrill is gone?’ Following the …
Aug 09 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 (7 August 2013) we get sophomore efforts from Avengers A.I. (Marvel), Hunger (Marvel) and Matt Fraction and Howard Chaykin’s truly brilliant Satellite Sam (Image …
Aug 07 2013
Jeff Lemire’s return to Vertigo is also one of his most ambitious, thought-provoking and rewarding debuts to date. A great deal of fuss has been made in the press over the so-called ‘relaunch’ of the Vertigo line in October, bringing with it a hefty slate of big names and new titles. Yet for the last …
Aug 04 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 (31 July 2013) we bid farewell to both Amala’s Blade (Dark Horse) and Grant Morrison’s Batman Incorporated (DC Comics), while Five Ghosts: The Haunting …
Aug 01 2013
The second annual for DC’s flagship title introduces a a few new characters, and proves that you don’t have to wear a cape to be a hero. Scott Snyder has had something of a tradition in his two-year tenure on Batman, punctuating his major story arcs with a solo story about a minor character that …
Jul 27 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.
Jul 26 2013
Kate Bishop flies solo in this first annual for the award-winning Hawkeye series, proving that femininity and strong female characters are not mutually exclusive in the world of comics. If this year’s multiple victories at the Eisner Awards for Matt Fraction and David Aja‘s Hawkeye didn’t initiate a ticker tape parade, it’s probably because it is …
Jul 25 2013
The big purple guy is back, and he’s worked up something of an appetite in his absence. An historic union gets a cosmic kick-off in the first chapter of Marvel’s precursor to its next event. For all of the plot reveals and giveaway in the lead-up to the end of Age of Ultron, the most …
Jul 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 take a look at some of last week’s new releases: a new dawn for Red Sonja #1 (Dynamite), while another new twist on the …
Jul 15 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 (10 July 2013) take a look at the start of the next arc in Daredevil #28 (Marvel), find out what woman has power over death …
Jul 13 2013
Filling in some of the gaps of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, our second taste of the Thor sequel comes in this comic prelude. In the first half of this prelude comic, writers Christopher Yost and Craig Kyle appeared to be hampered by their inability to be able to give away too much story ahead of …
