Category: Graphic Bits

Review: Trillium #1

Trillium (DC/Vertigo) - Jeff Lemire

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 …

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TV Review: Comic Book Heroes

Wolfgang Bylsma and Skye Walker Ogden - 'Comic Book Heroes' (ABC TV)

A fascinating look at the rise of Gestalt Comics in a documentary that was two years, thousands of miles and some punched walls in the making. It is difficult to speak of an ‘Australian comic book industry’ per se, but the rise of comic culture in this country is undeniable. Australia’s attendance at comic book …

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Graphic Bits Reviews: Amala’s Blade #4, Batman Inc #13, Daredevil #29, DC Annual #2, Five Ghosts #5, Guardians of the Galaxy #5, Pandora #2, Sex #5, Wake #3 and What If? AvX #4

Amala's Blade #4 - Michael Dialynas

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 …

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Review: Batman Annual #2

Batman Annual #2

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 …

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Graphic Bits Reviews: The Bounce #3, Lazarus #2, Superior Spider-man Team-Up #1, Tomorrowland #1 and What If? AvX #3

Superior Spider-man Team-Up #1 - David Lopez and Rachelle Rosenberg

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.

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Review: Hawkeye Annual #1

Hawkeye Annual #1 - Javier Pulido

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 …

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Review: Hunger #1

Hunger #1 - Leonard Kirk

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 …

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Reviews: Red Sonja #1 and Day Men #1

Red Sonja #1 - Walter Geovani and Adriano Lucas

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 …

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Film Review: The Wolverine

The Wolverine (Japan)

The Wolverine’s second solo adventure tips its hat to the comics, and focuses on character for mature action epic. He’s the best there is at what he does, which is probably why Wolverine remains one of Marvel’s most popular characters almost forty years after his introduction in the pages of The Incredible Hulk. One of …

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Graphic Bits Reviews: Daredevil #28, East of West #4, Hawkeye #12 and The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys #2

Daredevil #28 panel - Javier Rodriguez

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 …

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Review: Thor: The Dark World Prelude #2

Thor: The Dark World Prelude #2 - Ron Lim

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 …

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