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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Dancer, Dean Stell, Image, Jeff Powell, Nathan Edmondson, Nic Klein, review | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Alana, Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples, Image, Image Comics, Marko, Prince Robot IV, Saga, Saga #3, Saga #3 review, The Will | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Dean Stell, Image, review, Robert Kirkman, Rus Wooton, Sina Grace, The Walking Dead, Zombies | Leave a Comment »
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. [...]
Filed under: Image Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Image, Image Comics, Jim McCann, Mind the Gap, Mind the Gap #1, Mind the Gap #1 review, Rodin Esquejo, Sonia Oback | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Alex Link, Dean Stell, Image, Kelly Tindall, Rebel Blood, review, Riley Rossmo | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Marvel Comics, Vertigo, IDW, Image Comics | Tagged: Marvel, DC Comics, Dark Horse, Marvel Comics, Vertigo, IDW, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, G.I. Joe, The Walking Dead, DC, Previews, Bernie Wrightson, Image, IDW Publishing, COBRA, Vertigo Comics, The Unwritten, Sweet Tooth, Haunt, Dean Stell, Elephantmen, iZombie, Fatale, Rachel Rising, Spaceman, Secret, Rachel Grey, Glamourpuss, Hoax Hunters, Prophet, The Manhattan Projects, Saucer Country, Saga, The Secret History of DB Cooper, The New Deadwardians, Axe Cop: President of the World, Axe Cop: President of the World #1, Eerie Comics, Eerie Comics #1, Creepy Comics, Creepy Comics #9, Fatima: The Blood Spinners, Fatima: The Blood Spinners #2, Mind Mgmt, Mind Mgmt #3, The Massive, The Massive #2, Batman #11, Punk Rock Jesus #1, Punk Rock Jesus, iZombie #27, Sweet Tooth #35, Spaceman #8, The New Deadwardians #5, Saucer Country #5, The Unwritten #39, The Muck Monster, GI Joe #15, Cobra #15, The Walking Dead #100, Revival, Revival #1, Debris, Debris #1, Hoax Hunters #1, Elephantmen #43, Fatale #7, Haunt #28, The Manhattan Projects #5, Mind the Gap, Mind the Gap #3, Planetoid, Planetoid #2, Prophet #27, Saga #5, Secret #4, Glamourpuss #26, The Secret History of DB Cooper #5 | 7 Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Dean Stell, Image, Jonathan Hickman, Nick Pitarra, Rachelle Rosenberg, review, Rus Wooton, The Manhattan Projects | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Brandon Grapham, Dean Stell, Ed Brisson, Farel Dalrymple, Image, Joseph Bergin III, Prophet, review | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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 #96, The Walking Dead #96 review | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Comicraft, Dean Stell, Haunt, Image, Ivan Plascencia, Joe Kelly, Nathan Fox, review | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Alana, Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples, Hazel, Image, Image Comics, Marko, Prince Robot IV, Saga, Saga #2, Saga #2 review, The Will | 9 Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Dean Stell, Image, Jonathan Hickman, Michael Garland, review, Rus Wooton, Ryan Bodenheim, Secret, Secret #1, Secret #1 review | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Axel Medellin, Dean Stell, Elephantmen, Elephantmen #38, Elephantmen #38 review, Image, review, Richard Starkings | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Ben McCool, Ben Templesmith, choker, Choker #6, Choker #6 review, Dean Stell, Image, review, Tom B. Long | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Alex Sollazzo, Dean Stell, Image, Jade Dodge, Joe Eisma, Johnny Lowe, Morning Glories, Morning Glories #17, Morning Glories #17 review, Nick Spencer, review | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
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 #95, The Walking Dead #95 review | 5 Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Brandon Graham, Dean Stell, Ed Brisson, Image, Prophet, Prophet #23, Prophet #23 review, review, Richard Ballerman, Simon Roy | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Alex Link, Dean Stell, Image, Kelly Tindall, Rebel Blood, Rebel Blood #1, Rebel Blood #1 review, review, Riley Rossmo | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Andrew Osborne, Blue Estate, Blue Estate #10, Blue Estate #10 review, Dave Johnson, Dean Stell, Image, Kieran, Kosta Yanev, Nathan Fox, Peter Nguyen, review, Toby Cypress, Viktor Kalvachev | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Alana, Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples, Image, Image Comics, Marko, Saga, Saga #1, Saga #1 review | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Conspiracy Theory, Cris Peter, Dean Stell, Image, Jonathan Hickman, Nick Pitarra, review, Rus Wooton, The Manhattan Projects, The Manhattan Projects #1, The Manhattan Projects #1 review | 5 Comments »
By: James Stokoe (writer, artist, colorist & letters) The Story: Orc Stain is back! Let’s catch up with One-Eye as he tries to simultaneously evade and thwart the Orc Tzar. A few things: 1. So nice to have this comic back. - Wow, it has been awhile on this comic. I somehow didn’t review issue #6, but here’s a link [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Dean Stell, Image, James Stokoe, Orc Stain, Orc Stain #7, Orc Stain #7 review, review | 1 Comment »
By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Charlie Adlard (artist), Cliff Rathburn (grey tones), Rus Wooton (letters) & Sina Grace (editor) The Story: The gang sets out to find one of these new cities that we’ve been hearing so much about. A few things: [with SPOILERS] 1. Too much writing for the trade. - There was a time when TWD was equally [...]
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 #94, The Walking Dead #94 review, Zombies | 10 Comments »
By: David Hine (story/script), Shaky Kane (story/art), Richard Starkings & Jimmy Betancourt (letters) & J.G. Rochell (design) The Story: It’s open mic night and people are allowed to get up there and tell their sordid tales of horror. Review: “Good, but not as electric as the original series because I can’t figure out the story yet.” That’s [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred #2, Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred #2 review, David Hine, Dean Stell, Disinterred, Image, J.G. Roshell, Jimmy Betancourt, review, Richard Starkings, Shaky Kane, The Bulletpr | Leave a Comment »
By: Nick Spencer (writer), Joe Eisma (artist), Alex Sollazzo (colorist) & Johnny Lowe (letterer) The Story: After a few issues following Zoe & Hunter during the Woodrun games, we get back to Casey and Ms. Hodge who vanished from a cave to the desert a few issues ago. A Few Things: 1. Nice to get back to [...]
Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: Alex Sollazzo, Dean Stell, Image, Joe Eisma, Johnny Lowe, Morning Glories, Morning Glories #16, Morning Glories #16 review, Nick Spencer, review | 12 Comments »
