World Comic Book Review

26th March 2024

Redneck Volume 1 (Review)

Redneck Volume 1 Image Comics: Trade Paperback: October 2017 Writer: Donny Cates In the American vernacular, a “redneck” is a term: a. used for a white person, often from the south-eastern United States; and b. is also often associated with poverty, a lack of education or cultural sophistication, and a fundamentalist belief in the Christian … Read more

Rocket Girl Volume 1 (Review)

Rocket Girl Volume 1 Written by Brandon Montclare Publisher: Image Comics Trade Paperback: October 2016 Science fiction novelist Poul Anderson has his Time Patrol books, in which time police destroys rogue fictional realities (a series of novels running from 1955 to 1995). Isaac Asimov’s The End of Eternity, from 1955 is very similar. More recently, … Read more

Curse Words Volume 1 (Review)

Curse Words Volume 1 Written by Charles Soule Publisher: Image Comics Trade Paperback: July 2017 The epic fantasy quest is an old trope for that particular genre. A magician or wizard appears and warns of a great danger that is coming, one that can only be overcome if the heroes of the story band together, … Read more

Britannia Volume 1 (review)

Britiannia Volume 1 Written by Peter Milligan Publisher: Valiant Comics Trade Paperback: 2017 American publisher Valiant Comics had a run during the 1990s that ended when the company, having been sold to video game maker Acclaim for the purpose of creating new characters for video games, went under. Recently, Valiant has returned with a modest … Read more