World Comic Book Review

27th March 2024

Fables (review)—“Fairies can take anything you dish out”

Created by Bill Willingham Art: Mark Buckingham + a Wonderland of Artists Vertigo Comics, ONCE UPON A TIME in the early 1990s, William Willingham produced whole comic books himself in black and white with a fine pencil, a fabulous imagination, and a rare wit. Issues of Ironwood and Coventry were one-of-a-kind classics before FABLES launched … Read more

Angel (review)—“Get behind me I’ll take the hit”

Story: Bryan Edward Hill Art: Gleb Melnikov, Gabriel Cassata Boom! Studios, 2019 ONE CREATES AND ONE COPIES, like seed to seedling  or student grasshoppers learning to chirp. Vampires copy, too, just like you having kids, each imperfectly, due to intercourse mixing genes according to taste. Artists copy and writers copy as anyone who talks copies, … Read more

Basilisk (review)—“Holster that green gun”

Writer: Cullen Bunn Artists: Jonas Scharf, Alex Guimarães Boom! Comics, 2021 POTENT SYMBOLS EASILY JUMP boundaries to arrive at a different context, attaching to other contents in a jolt of recognition. Simple emblems like a circle within a circle continue to mystify me. This perspective crept over me during the spectacle of horror in BASILISK … Read more