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Dancer #1 – Review

By: Nathan Edmondson (writer), Nic Klein (art/colors) & Jeff Powell (letters) The Story: An assassin on the run. Recap/Review: Dancer #1 is a very promising start to a series.  There’s nothing too unique about the story itself.  We’ve all seen this “man alone” story where a spy/soldier/assassin is being hunted by the company/army/government that used to employ [...]

Saga #3 – Review

By: Brian K. Vaughan (story), Fiona Staples (art) The Story: Perfect timing—Marko and Alana could really use some spiritual help right now. The Review: We talk a lot about “twists” in fiction, but what are they, really?  They can’t be just surprises, because there are plenty of things that surprise you, but you wouldn’t call [...]

Fatale #5 – Review

By: Ed Brubaker (writer), Sean Phillips (art), and Dave Stewart (colors) The Story: Battles rage in secret tunnels under the city with cultists and Cthulian squid-men aplenty. The Review:  One of the things that has made Fatale such an alluring series is the constant sense of horrible, unknown things lurking just beyond what we know or [...]

The Walking Dead #97 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: Rick and his scouting party return to Arlington with news of the Bigger World. Recap/Review (with SPOILERS): As was the case last month, The Walking Dead shows how much better it works when the reader can see [...]

Mind the Gap #1 – Review

By: Jim McCann (story), Rodin Esquejo & Sonia Oback (art) The Story: One of these people is not like the other…guess who and how? The Review: The hallmark of a good mystery is not only where you the writer gives you enough material so you can actually try to solve it yourself along the way.  [...]

Rebel Blood #2 – Review

By: Alex Link (plot/script), Riley Rossmo (plot/art) & Kelly Tindall (letters) The Story: Trapped in the forest during an apocalypse, Chuck tries to make his way home. Recap/Review: Good and bad with this comic.  Let’s be in a good mood and talk about the good stuff first, eh? The general premise for this comic is interesting: man is [...]

Previews – May 2012

Maybe we’ll start this as a new feature?  I’ll flip through Previews, tell you what I think is worthwhile and you can tell me I’m a moron.  Sound like fun? DARK HORSE - Axe Cop: President of the World #1 - At some point, this odd comic that is written by 8 year old Malachai Nicolle and [...]

The Manhattan Projects #2 – Review

By: Jonathan Hickman (writer), Nick Pitarra (artist), Rachelle Rosenberg (colors) & Rus Wooton (letters) The Story: The Manhattan Projects goes looking for some Nazi scientists. Recap/Review: Folks who enjoyed Hickman’s Pax Romana are going to enjoy this series a LOT.  This issue perhaps doesn’t have quite the novelty of issue #1, but it still keeps that hard [...]

Prophet #24 – Review

By: Brandon Graham (writer), Farel Dalrymple (art), Joseph Bergin, III (colors), Ed Brisson (letters) The Story: Will a new artist affect the magic of Prophet? Recap/Review (with mild SPOILERS): The first three issues of Prophet since the relaunch have been magical.  But…we all know how touchy a thing success and momentum in comics can be, so it [...]

The Walking Dead #96 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: A finale to the Larger World story-arc hints at possible future conflicts. The Review (with SPOILERS): Yea!!!  We have a direction for the story leading up to issue #100!  That’s good and it’s in keeping with [...]

Haunt #23 – Review

By: Joe Casey (writer), Nathan Fox (artist), Ivan Plascencia (colors), Comicraft (letters) The Story: You thought that the guy in Haunt was a Catholic priest??? Review [with SPOILERS]:  How funny was that?  When this comic debuted, everyone made fun of how the protagonist in Haunt was a cigarette-smoking, prostitute-visiting Catholic priest.  It just seemed a little too [...]

Saga #2 – Review

By: Brian K. Vaughan (writer), Fiona Staples (artist) The Story: And now we all know why camping in the woods isn’t as fun as it sounds. The Review: I was amused to discover when I visited Comics Unlimited this week that they had begun to sell Saga in a plastic wrapper on the stands.  To [...]

Secret #1 – Review

By: Jonathan Hickman (writer), Ryan Bodenheim (artist), Michael Garland (colors) & Rus Wooton (letters) The Story: Conspiracies, secrets, duplicity and some good, old-fashioned torture. Review: [SPOILER WARNING] This issue does precisely what a #1 issue needs to do: Compel you to buy the second issue!  That’s no small challenge in this comic market where despite pathetic sales [...]

Elephantmen #38 – Review

By: Richard Starkings (writer & letters) & Axel Medellin (art) The Story: The “Big Bad” is revealed and it’s not who I expected. Review: Before we get into the Spoiler-filled discussion of the events in this issue (beginning in Paragraph 3), let’s take a second to give some credit to Richard Starkings who keeps this title very [...]

Choker #6 – Review

By: Ben McCool (writer), Ben Templesmith (art) and Tom B. Long (letters) The Story: Private Investigator Johnny Jackson has his final showdown with the mutant vampires and corrupt cops in Shotgun City. Review: It might be cliché to point out the delays on this title, but those delays are very germane to this review.  The first issue [...]

Morning Glories #17 – Review

By: Nick Spencer (writer), Joe Eisma (art), Alex Sollazzo (colors), Johnny Lowe (letters) and Jade Dodge (editor) The Story: What were Jade and Ike doing while Casey and Ms. Hodge vanished from the cave? A few things: Long! – 34 pages for the same $2.99 price.  Isn’t that nice?  You know how when Marvel or [...]

The Walking Dead #95 – Review

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (art), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones), Rus Wooton (letters) and Sina Grace (editor) The Story: Rick and gang finally see the community called Hilltop. A Few Things: [as always....with SPOILERS] Glad to finally see this place. - Well, it’s taken us a long time to reach this Hilltop joint.  At least 2-3 issues, right?  For [...]

Prophet #23 – Review

By: Brandon Graham & Simon Roy (story), Roy (art), Richard Ballermann (colors), Ed Brisson (letters) The Story: John Prophet continues his mission across the future-Earth wasteland with an assassin in hot pursuit. Review: This was another great issue, but confounding to review.  It is very hard to put into words what makes this such an enjoyable reading [...]

Rebel Blood #1 – Review

By: Alex Link (plot/script), Riley Rossmo (plot/art) & Kelly Tindall (letters) The Story: A man stuck in the wild tries to grapple with the onset of an apocalypse. Review: This was pretty good.  The big attraction to this issue and series is artist Riley Rossmo.  He was incredible on Cowboy Ninja Viking back in 2010 and he has kept [...]

Blue Estate #10 – Review

By: Viktor Kalvachev & Kosta Yanev (story), Andrew Osborne (script), Kalvachev, Toby Cypress, Nathan Fox, Dave Johnson, Peter Nguyen & Kieran (art) and Kalvachev (art director) The Story: It’s hard to describe in a single sentence – it’s weird things happening to a bunch of gangsters. A Few Things: 1.  Art direction is amazing. - Blue Estate breaks [...]

Saga #1 – A Second Opinion

By: Brian K. Vaughan (writer), Fiona Staples (artist) The Story: Well, an episode of How I Met Your Mother this ain’t. The Review: Alex already made some excellent points about this issue, so I won’t go around stepping on his toes, but I do want to make a few observations of my own about this [...]

The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 13 – Review

Original Air Date: March 18, 2012 A Few Things: [SPOILERS] 1. Great first 30 minutes! - That first 30 minutes of the show during the zombie attack was tense and exciting as hell.  What I enjoyed the most was how disorganized everything was.  By the time our characters knew what was going on, the zombie herd was upon [...]

Saga #1 – Review

by Brian K. Vaughan (writer), Fiona Staples (art), and Fonografiks (letters & design) The Story: Two lovers of warring races welcome a child into a futuristic world torn apart by strife. The Review:   I read quite a few comics.  At least 9 new singles and a trade, usually more than that…  What Saga offers, however, [...]

The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 12 – Review

Original Air Date: March 11, 2012 Five Things: [with SPOILERS] 1. Finally! - I wonder if TWD can almost “start over” after this episode’s big event (the killing of Shane).  When this series first began in 2010, “we” all focused on how loyal it was to the comic book.  I have almost stopped looking at the series that [...]

The Manhattan Projects #1 – Review

By: Jonathan Hickman (writer), Nick Pitarra (artist), Cris Peter (colors) and Rus Wooton (letters) The Story: What if there was more going on during the Manhattan Project than we were told? Review: This was really good.  Anyone who has been a fan of Hickman’s creator owned works knows that he can whip up some crazy ideas and [...]

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