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 January 7, 2012 by dfstell
By: Chris Roberson (writer), J. Bone (guest artist), Laura Allred (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Gregory Lockard (assistant editor) & Shelly Bond (editor) The Story: Gwyn the zombie gets hooked up with the Dead Presidents and Galatea’s plans start to make more sense. Four Things: 1. Nifty guest art by J. Bone. – Whoah! Wasn’t expecting [...]
Filed under: Vertigo | Tagged: Chris Roberson, Dean Stell, Gregory Lockard, I Zombie, IZombie #21, IZombie #21 review, J. Bone, Laura Allred, review, Shelly Bond, Todd Klein, Vertigo | Leave a Comment »
Posted on December 14, 2011 by dfstell
By: Chris Roberson (writer), Michael Allred (artist), Laura Allred (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Gregory Bond (assistant editor) & Shelly Bond (editor) The Story: With the feds on site looking for leftover zombies from the big outbreak, how’s a girl supposed to get a brain to eat? Five Things: 1. A new direction for the series. [...]
Filed under: Vertigo | Tagged: Chris Roberson, Dean Stell, Gregory Bond, I Zombie, IZombie #20, IZombie #20 review, Laura Allred, Michael Allred, review, Shelly Bond, Todd Klein, Vertigo | Leave a Comment »
Posted on November 24, 2011 by dfstell
By: Chris Roberson (writer), Michael Allred (art), Laura Allred (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Gregory Lockard (assistant editor) & Shelly Bond (editor) The Story: In the aftermath of the zombie outbreak, our main characters take time to regroup…..or hide. Five Things: 1. Nice settling point for the series. We always make a big deal of “jumping [...]
Filed under: Vertigo | Tagged: Chris Roberson, Dean Stell, Gregory Lockard, I Zombie, IZombie #19, IZombie #19 review, Laura Allred, Michael Allred, review, Shelly Bond, Todd Klein, Vertigo | Leave a Comment »
Posted on October 9, 2011 by dfstell
By: Chris Roberson (writer), Jay Stephens (guest artist), Laura Allred (colors), Michael Allred (inks on a few pages), Todd Klein (letters), Gregory Lockard (assistant editor) & Shelly Bond (editor) The Story: The back-story of Diogenes, the monster hunter from the Fossor Corporation. What’s Good: This is a very clean and streamlined story. IZombie is an [...]
Filed under: Vertigo | Tagged: Chris Roberson, Dean Stell, Gregory Lockard, I Zombie, Jay Stephens, Laura Allred, Michael Allred, review, Shelly Bond, Todd Klein, vampires, Vertigo | 1 Comment »
Posted on August 7, 2011 by dfstell
By: Chris Roberson (writer), Michael Allred (artist), Laura Allred (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Gregory Lockard (assistant editor) & Shelly Bond (editor) The Story: Many plot points crash into one another as the zombie outbreak afflicting Eugene, Oregon comes to a climax. What’s Good: Honestly, the best thing about this comic (and series) is the artwork. [...]
Filed under: Vertigo | Tagged: Chris Roberson, Dean Stell, Gregory Lockard, I Zombie, IZombie #16, IZombie #16 review, Laura Allred, Michael Allred, review, Shelly Bond, Todd Klein, Vertigo, Zombies | Leave a Comment »
Posted on August 4, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen
By: J. Michael Straczynski & Chris Roberson (writers), Jamal Igle (penciller), Jon Sibal & Robin Riggs (inkers), Marcelo Maiolo (colorist) The Story: Stop eating those French fries, Superman, have some self-respect! Don’t you know you can fly?! The Review: Superman has been around for so long, has been written by so many different kinds of [...]
Filed under: DC Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Chris Roberson, Clark Kent, DC, DC Comics, Grounded, J. Michael Straczynski, Jamal Igle, JMS, Jon Sibal, Kal-El, Lois Lane, Marcelo Maiolo, Robin Riggs, Superman, Superman #714, Superman #714 review | 7 Comments »
Posted on July 25, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen
By: Chris Roberson (writer), Shawn McManus (artist), Lee Loughridge (colorist) The Story: Clean the house, Cinderelley, kill off that assassin, Cinderelley. The Review: Perhaps the most brilliant thing about Fables is how even though it’s a serious plot and character driven series, with quite a lot of dark material, because the very nature of its [...]
Filed under: DC Comics, Reviews, Vertigo | Tagged: Chris Roberson, Cinderella, Cinderella: Fables Are Forever, Cinderella: Fables Are Forever #6, Cinderella: Fables Are Forever #6 review, DC, DC Comics, Dorothy, Dorothy Gale, Fables, Lee Loughridge, Oz, Shawn McManus, Toto, Vertigo, Vertigo Comics | Leave a Comment »
Posted on July 18, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen
By: J. Michael Straczynski & Chris Roberson (writers), Diogenes Neves, Oclair Albert, Eddy Barrows, JP Mayer, Jamal Igle, Jon Sibal (artists), Marcelo Maiolo (colorist) The Story: This is a job for Superman! What? He’s not there? Leave a voicemail, I guess…. The Review: No matter how much you get into a superhero comic, at some [...]
Filed under: DC Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Chris Roberson, Clark Kent, Connor Kent, DC, DC Comics, Diogenes Neves, Eddy Barrows, J. Michael Straczynski, Jamal Igle, JMS, Jon Sibal, JP Mayer, Kara Zor-El, Kon-El, Linda Lang, Lois Lane, Marcelo Maiolo, Oclair Albert, Superboy, Supergirl, Superman, Superman #713, Superman #713 review | Leave a Comment »
Posted on July 10, 2011 by dfstell
By: Chris Roberson (writer), Michael Allred (art), Laura Allred (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Gregory Lockard (assistant editor) & Shelly Bond (editor) The Story: A cute zombie & her monster-hunter boyfriend take on a hoard of shambling zombies. What’s Good: This is a pretty standard issue of I Zombie. If you’re invested in and enjoy the [...]
Filed under: Vertigo | Tagged: Chris Roberson, Dean Stell, Gregory Lockard, I Zombie, IZOMBIE #15, IZOMBIE #15 review, Laura Allred, Michael Allred, review, Shelly Bond, Todd Klein, Vertigo | Leave a Comment »
Posted on July 9, 2011 by DS Arsenault
By: Chris Roberson (writer), Francesco Biagnini (artist), Stephen Downer (colorist), Shannon Watters (assistant editor), Matt Gagnon (editor), Michael Moorcock (creator) The Story: Eric, a game designer, dreams he’s an albino sorceror prince called Elric, travelling through worlds overrun by chaos. At the same time, on another world, Hawkmoon, a retired warrior, finds out that an [...]
Filed under: Boom! Studios | Tagged: Chris Roberson, Comic Book Reviews, comic books, comic reviews, Corum, DS Arsenault, elric, Elric: The Balance Lost #1, Elric: The Balance Lost #1 review, Francesco Biagnini, Hawkmoon, Matt Gagnon, Michael Moorcock, Shannon Watters, Stephen Downer, WCBR, Weekly Comic Book Review | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 21, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen
By: Chris Roberson (writer), Shawn McManus (artist), Lee Loughridge (colorist) The Story: Watch what you’re doing with that glass cat! You break it, you bought it! The Review: Does anything beat a good rivalry? It’s a rhetorical question, because of course nothing does. I’m quite a fan of the sitcom nemesis, the one who pops [...]
Filed under: DC Comics, Reviews, Vertigo | Tagged: Chris Roberson, Cinderella, Cinderella: Fables Are Forever, Cinderella: Fables Are Forever #5, Cinderella: Fables Are Forever #5 review, DC, DC Comics, Dorothy, Dorothy Gale, Fables, Ivan Durak, Lee Loughridge, Shawn McManus, Vertigo, Vertigo Comics | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 17, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen
By: Chris Roberson (writer), Shawn McManus (artist), Lee Loughridge (colors) The Story: This time, Cinderella’s taking the catfight straight to Dorothy’s face. The Review: Fables has sprung off a lot of quality spin-offs since its conception, but none have quite the pure, unadulterated fun of the mash-up between Cinderella and James Bond. Cinderella: From Fabletown [...]
Filed under: DC Comics, Reviews, Vertigo | Tagged: Chris Roberson, Cinderella, Cinderella: Fables Are Forever, Cinderella: Fables Are Forever #4, Cinderella: Fables Are Forever #4 review, DC, DC Comics, Dorothy, Dorothy Gale, Fables, Fabletown, Ivan Durak, Lee Loughridge, Oz, Shawn McManus, Snow White, Vertigo | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 16, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen
By: J. Michael Straczynski & Chris Roberson (writers), Eddy Barrows (penciller), J.P. Mayer (inker), Rod Reis (colorist) The Story: No, Superman–not the electric-blue costume! The situation’s not that desperate! The Review: It’s pretty obvious the original premise of Straczynski’s storyline—Superman walking across the country, discovering the real America, or something—has largely faded from view. This [...]
Filed under: DC Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Chris Roberson, Clark Kent, DC, DC Comics, Dr. Roquette, Eddy Barrows, Grounded, Iron Munro, J. Michael Straczynski, J.P. Mayer, Jimmy Olsen, JMS, Livewire, rod reis, Superman, Superman #711, Superman #711 review | 15 Comments »
Posted on May 11, 2011 by DS Arsenault
By: Chris Roberson (writer), Francesco Biagini (artist), Stephen Downer (colorist), Michael Moorcock (creator) The Story: It’s hard to call this a story. It was more of a prologue and introduction to the world of Elric, for free, courtesy of BOOM! Studios on free comic book day. Elric is lost in some sort of planar waste, [...]
Filed under: Boom! Studios | Tagged: Chris Roberson, elric, Elric: The Balance Lost, Elric: The Balance Lost review, Francesco Biagini, free comic book day comics, Michael Moorcock, Stephen Downer | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 8, 2011 by dfstell
By: Chris Roberson (writer), Michael Allred (art), Laura Allred (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Gregory Lockard (assistant editor) & Shelly Bond (editor) The Story: After spending the first dozen issues mostly sorting out who these freaky characters are, it seems that we are embarking on our first mission-based story arc having to do with the evil [...]
Filed under: Vertigo | Tagged: Chris Roberson, Dean Stell, Gregory Lockard, I Zombie, iZombie, izombie #13, izombie #13 review, Laura Allred, Michael Allred, review, Shelly Bond, Todd Klein, Vertigo, Zombies | Leave a Comment »
Posted on April 13, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen
By: J. Michael Straczynski & Chris Roberson (writers), Eddy Barrows & Travel Foreman (pencillers), J.P. Mayer & John Dell (inkers), Rob Reis & Dave McCaig (colorists) The Story: Can a nerd from the sticks and an emo from the big city work together to defeat an immortal caveman? The Review: I’ve managed to stay above [...]
Filed under: DC Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Batman, Bruce Wayne, Chris Roberson, Clark Kent, Dave McCaig, DC, DC Comics, Eddy Barrows, J. Michael Straczynski, J.P. Mayer, John Dell, Kal-El, Rob Reis, Superman, Superman #710, Superman #710 review, Travel Foreman, Vandal Savage | 4 Comments »
Posted on April 10, 2011 by dfstell
By: Chris Roberson (writer), Gilbert Hernandez (art), Laura Allred (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Gregory Lockard (assistant editor) & Shelly Bond (editor) The Review: Anyone who has followed my reviews of this series knows that I’m a serious fan of Mike Allred’s art, so when I first flipped this issue open, I said, “Hey! This isn’t [...]
Filed under: Vertigo | Tagged: Chris Roberson, Dean Stell, Gilbert Hernandez, I Zombie, I Zombie #12, I Zombie #12 review, Laura Allred, review, Todd Klein, Vertigo | Leave a Comment »
Posted on March 13, 2011 by dfstell
By: Chris Roberson (writer), Michael Allred (art), Laura Allred (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Gregory Lockard (assistant editor) & Shelly Bond (editor) The Story: Kinda a wrapping up story as many loose ends are secured. What’s Good: Roberson and Allred have done a yeoman’s job of world building over the first eleven issues of I, Zombie. [...]
Filed under: Vertigo | Tagged: Chris Roberson, Dean Stell, Gregory Lockard, I Zombie, laura all, Michael Allred, review, Shelly Bond, Todd Klein, Vertigo | Leave a Comment »
Posted on March 9, 2011 by dfstell
By: Chris Roberson (writer), Khary Randolph (art), Mitch Gerads (colors), Ed Dukeshire (letters) & Bryce Carlson (editor) The Story: Ben & Tara continue their escape from a whole host of bad-guy aliens as the initial arc of Starborn wraps up. What’s Good: This is a pretty well executed story. The themes are all things we’ve [...]
Filed under: Boom! Studios | Tagged: Boom! Studios, Bryce Carlson, Chris Roberson, Dean Stell, Ed Dukeshire, Khary Randolph, Mitch Gerads, review, Starborn | 3 Comments »
Posted on February 12, 2011 by SoldierHawk
By J. Michael Straczynski (plot), Chris Roberson (script), Eddy Barrows (pencils), J.P. Mayer with Julio Ferreira (inks), Rod Reis (colors) and John J. Hill (letters) The Story: The “Superman Squad” arrives from the future to convince the original Superman that he is, in fact, important, and that his heroics do actually help people. Also, Wonder [...]
Filed under: DC Comics | Tagged: Chris Roberson, Eddy Barrows, J. Michael Straczynski, J.P. Mayer, John J. Hill, Julio Ferreira, rod reis, Superman, Superman #708, Superman #708 review, Weekly Comic Book Review, Wonder Woman | 1 Comment »
Posted on February 9, 2011 by dfstell
By: Chris Roberson (writer), Khary Randolph (art), Mitch Gerads (colors), Ed Dukeshire (letters) & Bryce Carlson (editor) The Story: Benjamin & Tara continue trying to escape from the supposedly bad aliens that have descended upon Earth. What’s Good: I said in some other recent review that strong art is vitally important to a comic book [...]
Filed under: Boom! Studios | Tagged: Boom! Studios, Bryce Carlson, Chris Roberson, Dean Stell, Ed Dukeshire, Khary Randolph, Mitch Gerads, review, Starborn, Starborn #3, Starborn #3 review, Starborne | 2 Comments »
Posted on February 8, 2011 by dfstell
By: Chris Roberson (writer), Michael Allred (art), Laura Allred (colors), Todd Klein (letters) & Shelly Bond (editor) The Story: Gwyn has to talk to someone from her pre-zombie life in order to calm the voices in her head. What’s Good: Many of the conceptual things in this issue are very strong and have been strong throughout [...]
Filed under: Vertigo | Tagged: Chris Roberson, Dean Stell, I Zombie, I Zombie #10, I Zombie #10 review, Laura Allred, Michael Allred, review, Shelly Bond, Todd Klein, Vertigo, Zombie #10 review | Leave a Comment »
Posted on January 12, 2011 by SoldierHawk
By J. Michael Straczynski (plot), Chris Roberson (script), Allan Goldman (pencils), Eber Ferreira (inks), Marcelo Maiolo (colors) and John J. Hill (letters) The Story: Superman continues–still–his trek across the U.S. While keeping himself busy assisting with everyday emergencies in a small town, he discovers a factory that is in danger of exploding. When Lois shows [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics | Tagged: Allan Goldman, Chris Roberson, Eber Ferreira, J. Michael Straczynski, John J. Hill, Marcelo Maiolo, Superman, Superman #707, Superman #707 review, weekly comic book reviews | 6 Comments »
Posted on January 12, 2011 by dfstell
By: Chris Roberson (writer), Khary Randolph (art), Mitch Gerads (colors), Ed Dukeshire (letters), Bryce Carlson (editor) & Stan Lee (Grand Poobah) The Story: Benjamin Warner starts to lean WHY it seems that a science fiction story he has had in the back of his mind for years is coming to life around him. What’s Good: [...]
Filed under: Boom! Studios | Tagged: Boom! Studios, Bryce Carlson, Chris Roberson, Dean Stell, Ed Dukeshire, Khary Randolph, Mitch Gerads, review, Stan Lee, Stan Lee's Starborn #2, Stan Lee's Starborn #2 review, Starborne | Leave a Comment »
