Posted on February 11, 2012 by dfstell
By: Steve Mannion (writer/artist) and Mannion, Frank Forte & JC Wong (colors) The Story: More zany adventures of teen heroine Fearless Dawn. Plus a bunch of short stories and concept art. Review: This is completely a comic for art lovers. If you’re one of those readers who rolls his eyes why guys like me start [...]
Filed under: Other | Tagged: Asylum Press, Fearless Dawn, Fearless Dawn: Secret of the Swamp #1, Fearless Dawn: Secret of the Swamp #1 review, Frank Forte, JC Wong, Steve Mannion | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 9, 2012 by dfstell
By: Scott Snyder & Scott Tuft (writers), Attila Futaki (art), Greg Guilhaumond (colors) & Fonografiks (letters) The Story: It’s the finale! How does little Jack get away from the cannibal? Four Things: 1. Creepy and disturbing! – Man, does this team understand horror or what? Most monologues by villains/killers are contrived, but hearing the killer in [...]
Filed under: DC Comics, Image Comics | Tagged: Attila Futaki, Fonografiks, Greg Guilhaumond, Scott Snyder, Scott Tuft, Severed #7, Severed #7 review | 5 Comments »
Posted on February 9, 2012 by dfstell
By: Brian Wood (writer), Danijel Zezelj (artist), Dave McCaig (colors), Travis Lanham (letters), Massimo Carnevale (cover) & Mark Doyle (editor) The Story: In this long-form story about the early history of Viking Iceland, one family leader tries to become an honest businessman, but can that ever really happen? Three Things: 1. Great series in hindsight. [...]
Filed under: Vertigo | Tagged: Brian Wood, Danijel Zezelj, Dave McCaig, Dean Stell, Mark Doyle, Massimo Carnevale, Northlanders, Northlanders #48, Northlanders #48 review, review, Travis Lanham, Vertigo | 5 Comments »
Posted on February 8, 2012 by dfstell
By: Chuck Dixon (writer), Alex Cal (artist), J. Brown (colors), Shawn Lee (letters), Carlos Guzman (assistant editor) & John Barber (editor) The Story: Cobra has taken over a sovereign country and is driving the civilians out! The Joe’s have to stop them. Five Things: 1. Cobra is a pretty compelling enemy. – The best thing [...]
Filed under: IDW | Tagged: Alex Cal, Carlos Guzman, Chuck Dixon, Dean Stell, G.I. Joe, GI Joe #10, GI Joe #10 review, IDW, J. Brown, John Barber, review, Shawn Lee | 5 Comments »
Posted on February 7, 2012 by dfstell
By: Chris Roberson (writer), Michael Allred (artist), Laura Allred (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Gregory Lockard (assistant editor), & Shelly Bond (editor) The Story: The big threat is beginning to show itself. What impact will this have on our main characters? Five Things: 1. Interesting plot development for Gwyn. – Even though I Zombie has an [...]
Filed under: Vertigo | Tagged: Chris Roberson, Dean Stell, Gregory Lockard, I Zombie, IZombie #22, IZombie #22 review, Laura Allred, Michael Allred, review, Shelly Bond, Todd Klein, Vertigo | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 7, 2012 by dfstell
By: Jeff Roenning (writer, co-creator), Jean-Paul Bonjour (co-creator), Robert Love (pencils), Dana Shukartsi (inks), Diego Simone (colors), Drew Gill (letters) & Branwyn Bigglestone (editor) The Story: A rebellious teenage girl makes her way in a zombie apocalypse. Review: This isn’t a bad comic and it has some promise. Let’s start with the positives. The art [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Alpha Girl, Alpha Girl #1, Alpha Girl #1 review, Branwyn Bigglestone, Dana Shukartsi, Dean Stell, Diego Simone, Drew Gill, Image, Jean-Paul Bonjour, Jeff Roenning, review, Robert Love | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 3, 2012 by dfstell
By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor), Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Time is almost up! How can Spidey prevent the future destruction of New York? Five Things: 1. This is how to pace superhero stories! – Slott really understands how to [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics | Tagged: Amazing Spider-Man, Amazing Spider-Man #679, Amazing Spider-Man #679 review, Dan Slott, Dean Stell, Edgar Delgado, Ellie Pyle, Humberto Ramos, Joe Carmagna, Marvel, review, Stephen Wacker, Victor Olazaba | 5 Comments »
Posted on February 3, 2012 by dfstell
By: Jeff Lemire (writer and artist), Jose Villarrubia (colors), Carlos M. Mangual (letters), Gregory Lockard (assistant editor) & Mark Doyle (editor) The Story: Will Jepperd go back to save his friends in the dam? Five Things [Light spoilers]: 1. $hit is starting to hit the fan back at the dam. – This is issue 2 [...]
Filed under: Vertigo | Tagged: Carlos M. Mangual, Dean Stell, Gregory Lockard, Jeff Lemire, Jose Villarrubia, Mark Doyle, review, Sweet Tooth, Sweet Tooth #30, Sweet Tooth #30 review, Vertigo | 4 Comments »
Posted on February 2, 2012 by dfstell
By: Terry Moore (script, art, letters, everything) The Story: Rachel tries to get her life back in order and the creepy little girl might be headed to a foster home. Three Things: 1. The detail in Terry Moore’s art is really impressive. – Of course, everyone knows that Terry Moore is great at drawing expressions. [...]
Filed under: Other | Tagged: Abstract Studios, Dean Stell, Rachel Rising, Rachel Rising #5, Rachel Rising #5 review, review, Terry Moore | 2 Comments »
Posted on January 30, 2012 by dfstell
By: Scott Snyder (writer), Rafael Albuquerque (artist), Dave McCaig (colors), Jared Fletcher (letters), Gregory Lockard (assistant editor) & Mark Doyle (editor) The Story: The Death Race arc gives us a little background on our new vampire hunter, Travis. Four Things: [SPOILERS] 1. This is a background issue. – Last issue introduced a bunch of brand [...]
Filed under: Vertigo | Tagged: Dave McCaig, Rafael Albuquerque, American Vampire, Scott Snyder, Mark Doyle, Jared Fletcher, American Vampire #23, American Vampire #23 review, gergory lockard | Leave a Comment »
Posted on January 30, 2012 by dfstell
By: Mike Carey & Peter Gross (creators, writer & pencils), Vince Locke (inks), Lee Loughridge (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Joe Hughes (assistant editor) & Karen Berger (editor) The Story: An origin of the nasty nun with the marionettes. Four Things: 1. These .5 issues are seriously good. – The biggest problem with the .5 issues [...]
Filed under: Vertigo | Tagged: Dean Stell, Joe Hughes, Karen Berger, Lee Loughridge, Mike Carey, Peter Gross, review, The Unwritten, The Unwritten #33.5, The Unwritten #33.5 review, Todd Klein, Vertigo, Vince Locke | 2 Comments »
Posted on January 30, 2012 by dfstell
By: David Hine (story/writer), Shaky Kane (story/art), Richard Starkings & Jimmy Betancourt (lettering) and JG Roshell (design) The Story: Not exactly sure, but we get an origin for the Shield of Justice character. Four Things: 1. Just glad to have Bulletproof Coffin back! - The first 6-issue run of Bulletproof Coffin that ended in January 2011 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Bulletproof Coffin, Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred #1, Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred #1 review, David Hine, Dean Stell, Disinterred, Image, JG Roshell, Jimmy Batancourt, review, Richard Starkings, Shaky Kane | Leave a Comment »
Posted on January 30, 2012 by dfstell
By: Joe Lansdale, Keith Lansdale, Dan Braun, Bill Morrison, Martin Salvador & Archie Goodwin (writers), Guus Floor, Patric Reynolds, Wilfredo Torres, Steve Skeates & Steve Ditko (artists) and Nate Piekos (letters) The Story: Uncle Creepy is back with three new tales of terror and two old reprints from the Creepy archives. Review: This isn’t a [...]
Filed under: Dark Horse Comics | Tagged: Archie Goodwin, Bill Morrison, Creepy, Creepy #7, Creepy #7 review, Dan Braun, Dark Horse, Dean Stell, Guus Floor, Joe Lansdale, Keith Lansdale, Martin Salvador, Nate Piekos, Patric Reynolds, review, Steve Ditko, Steve Skeates, Wilfredo Torres | 5 Comments »
Posted on January 25, 2012 by dfstell
By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (artist), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: Is this promise of a new colony a blessing or a threat? Five Things: 1. How do you know who to trust? - I really do like how TWD continues to be about everything BUT [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Dean Stell, Image, review, Robert Kirkman, Rus Wooton, Sina Grace, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead #93, The Walking Dead #93 review | 8 Comments »
Posted on January 24, 2012 by dfstell
By: Tim Seeley (writer), Daniel Leister (art), Carlos Badilla (colors), Crank! (letters) and James Lowder (edits) The Story: The Hack/Slash crew goes to South America, searching for a cure to the disease that causes slashers. Four Things: 1. Funny. – This is a comic for people who like jokes about bodily functions. If you roll [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Carlos Badilla, Crank, Daniel Leister, Dean Stell, Hack/Slash, Hack/Slash #12, Hack/Slash #12 review, Image, James Lowder, review, Tim Seeley | Leave a Comment »
Posted on January 23, 2012 by dfstell
By: Mike Costa (writer), Alex Cal (artist), J. Brown (colors), Neil Uyetake (letters), Carlos Guzman (assistant editor) & John Barber (editor) The Story: Cobra has taken over a SE Asian country. The Joes want to stop them and the new Cobra Commander’s lieutenants are fighting amongst themselves. Three Things: 1. The story is really kinda [...]
Filed under: IDW | Tagged: Alex Cal, Carlos Guzman, COBRA, Cobra #9, Cobra #9 review, Cobra Command, Dean Stell, IDW, J. Brown, John Barber, Mike Costa, Neil Uyetake, review | 4 Comments »
Posted on January 21, 2012 by dfstell
By: Mark Millar (writer), Leinil Yu (pencils), Gerry Alanguilan (inks), Sunny Gho (colors), Clayton Cowles (letters) & Nicole Boose (editor) The Story: Will Simon/Superior make a deal with the devil to save Earth. Four Things: 1. Has a popcorn-y summer movie feel. – I can totally see this being a summer movie and I’m sure [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics | Tagged: Clayton Cowles, Dean Stell, Gerry Alanguilan, Icon, Leinil Yu, Mark Millar, Marvel, Nicole Boose, review, Sunny Gho, Superior, Superior #7, Superior #7 review | 1 Comment »
Posted on January 20, 2012 by dfstell
By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: A new time-hopping Spidey story kicks off. Five Things: 1. Time travel done right. – This is how time travel should happen, right? At the very least, this is [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics | Tagged: Amazing Spider-Man, Amazing Spider-Man #678, Amazing Spider-Man #678 review, Dan Slott, Dean Stell, Edgar Delgado, Ellie Pyle, Humberto Ramos, Joe Carmagna, Marvel, review, Stephen Wacker, Victor Olazaba | 1 Comment »
Posted on January 20, 2012 by dfstell
By: Nick Spencer (writer), Joe Eisma (art), Alex Sollazzo (colors), Johnny Lowe (letters) & Jade Dodge (editor) The Story: Zoe and Hunter have to team-up for the mysterious Woodrun game. Four Things: 1. A focused issue. – There wasn’t a lot of background noise in this issue. Morning Glories usually does focus on a character [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Alex Sollazzo, Dean Stell, Image, Jade Dodge, Joe Eisma, Johnny Lowe, Morning Glories, Morning Glories #15, Morning Glories #15 review, Nick Spencer, review | 1 Comment »
Posted on January 20, 2012 by dfstell
By: Scott Snyder (writer), Greg Capullo (pencils), Jonathan Glapion (inks), FCO (colors), Richard Starkings (letters), Katie Kubert (assistant editor), Harvey Richards (associate editor) & Mike Marts (editor) The Story: It’s a complete mind-bender as the Court of Owls has Batman trapped in a maze. Or do they?? Three Things: 1. Interesting mechanic with the twisting [...]
Filed under: DC Comics | Tagged: Batman, Batman #5, Batman #5 review, DC, Dean Stell, FCO, Greg Capullo, Harvey Richards, Jonathan Glapion, Katie Kubert, Mike Marts, review, Richard Starkings, Scott Snyder | 20 Comments »
Posted on January 16, 2012 by dfstell
By: Chuck Dixon (writer), Alex Cal (artist), J. Brown (colors), Neil Uyetake (letters), Carlos Guzman (assistant editor) & John Barber (editor) The Story: Cobra has taken command of a piss-ant country. Snake Eyes & his team go in to cause them trouble. Four Things: 1. Pretty simple & linear story. – This is kind of [...]
Filed under: IDW | Tagged: Alex Cal, Carlos Guzman, Chuck Dixon, G.I. Joe, J. Brown, John Barber, Neil Uyetake, Snake Eyes #9, Snake Eyes #9 review | Leave a Comment »
Posted on January 15, 2012 by dfstell
By: Scott Snyder & Scott Tuft (writers), Attila Futaki (art), Greg Guilhaumond (colors) & Fonografiks (letters) The Story: Don’t follow creepy old men into backwoods tool sheds! 3 Things: 1. The cat is out of the bag. – The creators have kept this game going for a few issues where the reader knew more about [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: review, Image, Dean Stell, Scott Snyder, Fonografiks, Scott Tuft, Attila Futaki, Severed, Greg Guilhaumond, Severed #6, Severed #6 review | 3 Comments »
Posted on January 15, 2012 by dfstell
By: Nate Cosby & Ben McCool (writers), Breno Tamura (artist), Kevin Colden & Jordie Bellaire (colors), Rus Wooton (letters) The Story: A bunch of Cuban-born agents are trying to break into a prison to kill someone. Three Things: 1. I feel like I missed an issue! – This isn’t necessarily the writers’ fault. I’m pushing [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: review, Image, Rus Wooton, Dean Stell, Ben McCool, Nate Cosby, Kevin Colden, Pigs, Breno Tamura, Jordie Bellaire, Pigs #5, Pigs #5 review | 2 Comments »
Posted on January 13, 2012 by dfstell
By: Mark Waid (writer), Emma Rios (art), Javier Rodriguez (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Spidey teams up with Daredeveil and Black Cat. Four Things: 1. Black Cat always makes the story better. – There’s no better way to start a heated comment thread than to suggest [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics | Tagged: Amazing Spider-Man, Amazing Spider-Man #677, Amazing Spider-Man #677 review, Dean Stell, Ellie Pyle, Emma Rios, Javier Rodriguez, Joe Caramagna, Mark Waid, Marvel, review, Stephen Wacker | 5 Comments »
Posted on January 12, 2012 by dfstell
By: Mike Carey & Peter Gross (co-creators, writer & pencils), M.K. Perker (inks), Chris Chuckry (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Joe Hughes (assistant editor) & Karen Berger (editor) The Story: Tom Taylor goes on the offensive versus the Cabal now that he’s all powered up by the belief of his fans. Five Things: 1. Finally an [...]
Filed under: Vertigo | Tagged: Chris Chuckry, Dean Stell, Joe Hughes, Karen Berger, M.K. Perker, Mike Carey, Peter Gross, review, The Unwritten, The Unwritten #33, The Unwritten #33 review, Todd Klein, Vertigo | 6 Comments »
