World Comic Book Review

26th March 2024

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

Year Zero, Vol. 2 (review)—“Help me through the night”

Writer: Benjamin Percy Artist: Juan Jose Ryp AWA (Artists, Writers & Artisans), May 2021 DANGER UNDER THE SURFACE. Danger outside. Need walls. Camouflage. Weapons. These are the first lessons graphically conveyed once plunged in YEAR ZERO, a zombie-apocalypse story that appeared in four mini-tales through five issues in the year of the virus 2020. Zombies … Read more

Burger #1 (review)

Writer: Ben Canny Artist: Gourkloum Running Ground Studios, 2022 “It is a story about happiness,” promises a dialogue box on the first page, the line delivered by a sombre young man in a hoodie. It starts with a dare: a boy eats roadkill, and acquires the nickname “burger”. The boy is haunted by dreams for … Read more

Uzamaki (revisited)

Uzumaki Writer and Artist: Junji Ito Publisher : Viz, 2013 (originally 1998-99) Horror requires the creation of a structure putting into motion a feeling of uneasiness. We are supposed to find the fictive world in front of us so unsettling that, in the end, we start shivering. There is, in other words, the necessity of … Read more