Category: Books
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The Silencer
Written by Dan Abnett, The Silencer, DC’s New Age of Heroes female assassin, is an overall intriguing action story, despite allusions to multiple other characters. DC’s New Age of Heroes drew me in as a curiosity. The new titles are all fallout from the Dark Night: Metal crossover that, unabashedly, I did not read. Also,…
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Stranded in the Jungle: Jerry Nolan’s Wild Ride
Here’s our review of Stranded in the Jungle: Jerry Nolan’s Wild Ride – A Tale of Drugs, Fashion, the New York Dolls, and Punk Rock. In my opinion, the role of both the proto-punk New York Dolls and paradigm-changer the Heartbreakers (Johnny Thunders’, not Tom Petty’s) cannot be under-appreciated for bands like the Ramones to…
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The Terrifics
DC Comic’s newest, strangest super hero team is The Terrifics, a riff on Marvel’s The Fantastic Four, and they’re off to a (Tom) strong start. **Spoiler Alert: Plastic Man is discussed often in this review** Judging an entire series based on the first issue is unfair, even short sighted. Yet, based on the cliché of…
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I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Author Iain Reid’s bestseller ‘I am Thinking of Ending Things’ is being adapted for Netflix by Charlie Kaufman, so we look at the book itself. The realistic portrayal of human feeling is why we create, right? It’s an expression used to relate to others on a universal level. We all want to feel something when…
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The Best Comics of 2017
Two of our resident comic lovers Dena and The Riz talk about their favourite books of 2017, including work like My Favourite Thing is Monsters. Not sure where to start with for your great comic reads for 2018? Why not start with some of our best comic reads of 2017? Now that everyone is settled…
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The Jetsons
This is not The Jetsons from your childhood! DC has re-imagined the Hanna-Barbera Flintstony nuclear family from the future and the results are surprisingly great. Remember The Jetsons? The animated space-aged parallel to the stone-aged The Flintstones? They were the familiar, nuclear, white bread family of the future, with flying cars and that all-too-familiar futuristic…
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Imaginary Fiends
Nightwing’s Tim Seeley writes a horror comic for Vertigo with Imaginary Fiends, which takes a while to build but hopefully the payoff is worth it. I’m not afraid to admit that I had multiple imaginary friends growing up. Even with a younger brother, I felt the need to let my imagination run rampant and generate…
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Mage: The Hero Denied
Kevin Matchstick returns in Matt Wagner’s epic Mage: The Hero Denied to fight beasties, protect family, and fulfill his destiny…most likely…when he figures it out… Matt Wagner has been responsible for some of comic’s most successful owner-created titles, including Grendel and Mage, before working on DC’s Demon and Batman. Before Todd McFarlane founded Image Comics…
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Mister Miracle
DC Comic’s current Mr. Miracle mini-series is a must read for fans of challenging, surreal, and brilliant story-telling, a new take on the new god. Comicdom’s greatest escape artist, pacifist/general/warrior, and most beloved New God, Jack “King” Kirby’s Mr. Miracle is back in an impressive twelve part story of heroism, despair, and self-identity, relying on…
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Two New Hack/Slash Titles
Fan favourites Hack/Slash have returned to hunt Revenants, chase killers, and face off against Vampirella, in two new series from Image and Dynamite this Halloween. Fandom, in any genre, is notorious for its insatiable appetite; once fans find their property of choice they are continually seeking out the next chapter often before the present one…