Review

Another month, another couple first issues, plus a big European collection roundup. In this case, the big European collection is Humanoids reissuing Metabarons artist Juan Giménez‘s solo collection called The Fourth Power. Sera And The Royal Stars issue one by Jon Tsuei, Audrey Mok, Raúl Angulo, Jim Campbell, and Tim Daniel: A Persian-influenced swords and […]

In the aftermath of World War II and the Nuremberg Trials, the collective deem that justice has been served to the victims of the Holocaust and strive to move on emotionally and politically.  One man, however, armed with his dead wife’s lipstick, takes up arms in a war-torn Europe to hunt down ex-Nazis and personify […]

Raina Telgemeier is the Children’s Laureate of Graphic Novels. Her books are the bestselling graphic novels in America because they matter to children. Guts is her latest and continues her streak of stories that explore childhood fears and anxieties. Guts is about stomach trouble and fear of illness. It starts with young Raina and her […]

Something is wrong with Emma’s baby, Roslin.   The new mother struggles with the infant who screams incessantly, comparing her beloved daughter’s piercing cries to a slaughtered cow’s death rattle.  Determined to keep up with the appearances of a happy housewife, Emma continues with her daily expectations, growing more and more exasperated with her dismissive husband […]

No Guns Life by Tasuku Karasuma is a new twist on the hardboiled detective story – the hero has a literal GUN for a head. That’s right, Juzo Inui is a cyborg ex-soldier who was augmented during the war into a literal walking weapon. Now that the war’s over, he makes a living as a […]

Kousuke Oono‘s The Way of the Househusband is about Tatsu, a feared Yakuza who has left the life to devote himself to his new career woman wife. She works as a designer and he’s committed himself to being the house husband. He doesn’t do crimes, street fights or murders anymore, but that doesn’t mean he […]

I feel kinda bad putting new issues of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and The Life And Death Of Toyo Harada next to a stone cold classic of French science fiction, but c’est la vie. Druillet’s The Night Druillet’s The Night: “Death…everywhere, Death with its garland of glistening rot…” Created as a response to his wife […]

On Wednesday, Marvel Comics released Marvel Comics Presents #7, most notable for featuring the latest chapter of The Vigil, the serialized story in which Wolverine meets a young girl named Sylvie, waits until she grows up, and then has sex with her, producing a daughter named Rien who has been pulling big prices on eBay […]

The future is now. With space travel advancing to the furthest reaches of the galaxy, the technology for discovery advanced faster than the infrastructure could keep up with it.  While violence is thriving and corporations are preying upon the disenfranchised, one unexpected victim of the new status quo is the postal service…and mailmen are about […]

Everyone is either in a storm currently or will be in one someday… This article is to be accompanied by this face-melting track:   Murder Falcon is heavy metal injected into the comic book medium, with rumors circulating that the ink was infused with the shredded vocal cords of long-haired outcasts and meant to be […]

I had some thoughts about two recent single issues and two recent collections. Black Hammer/Justice League #1: Of the now six Black Hammer spinoffs (Sherlock Frankenstein, Doctor Star, The Quantum Age, Black Hammer ’45, Cthu-Louise and now this Justice League mini), I’ve only read Sherlock Frankenstein, so I’ve yet to be sick of the Black […]

Trout: The Hollowest Knock continues Giuseppe’s story with the mysterious baby he has sworn to protect, even crossing oceans to do so.  Picking up from his near-drowning and separation from Trout, the story opens with Giuseppe waking up in his very modified childhood home, much to the wicked delight of his sinister brother, Gasparo. Trying […]

I was just a couple of pages into the new Blade Runner: 2019 comic from Titan Comics when that old, happy feeling washed over me— that feeling you get when you realize you’re getting into something wonderful, something truly special. This new Blade Runner might be in the same world that Deckard lives and breathes […]

I’ve read a bit of Cullen Bunn’s work, with Sixth Gun and Helheim being particular favorites of mine. So, when I saw the solicits for a new horror comic from Bunn and co-scripter Kyle Strahm, I got pretty excited. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. Unearth, from the very first few […]

Grass Kings is an American modern murder-mystery, borrowing elements of fantasy and the Old West to tell the story about three brothers and the dissident slice of land they call home.  As an Eisner nominee for 2018’s Best New Series, this release from Boom Studios is a tempting trade to add to your collection, especially […]

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is considered one of the most important American novels of the early 20th Century. So does it need a graphic novel adaptation by German artist Kristin Gehrmann?   First, Some History Published in 1906, it’s an account of the plight of immigrants in Chicago as they try to make a […]

Jordie Bellaire is doing some incredible work with BOOM! Studios re-invention of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and I couldn’t be happier to see the bold new directions with the franchise that he and illustrator David López are taking the book in. It would be really, really hard to take on a project like Buffy without […]

The Cherryton Academy is a typical school with not-so-typical students.  At the particular institution, the scholars are split into two very specific classes; predator and prey.  The anthropomorphic divide spreads even further in this story written and illustrated by the very talented Paru Itagaki, being the first Akita Shogen to ever win the prestigious Manga […]

A father, in the midst of fighting against a military coup, negotiates the safety of his infant daughter, Valer, with the enemy Yakuza house.  Ryuko, the daughter of the Yakuza leader takes the young baby under the umbrella of her safety, kick-starting a legacy that opens up in the next chapter set eighteen years later. […]

Breakneck is a graphic novel from an unpublished film outline by crime writer Duane Swierczynski, one of the best and most underrated crime writers out there. Joe Hayward is a nebbish on the warpath. He’s going after the guy who might be sleeping with his wife. He arrives at the motel they’re at with a […]