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Writer: Nick Henry Artist: Mike Burton LC Comics, 2022 Monsters, creatures that are not part of the normal life, are first and foremost characters to swiftly get rid of. Or, in what is usually a more tolerant post-modern trope, they are beings that have their own right to live (and...
Read MoreWriter: Gerard J. Jones Artist: Clovis Batebola August 2022 Mrs. Vengeance: The Broken Pavement: Part One is the first issue of a new comic book miniseries from writer Gerald J. Jones and artist Clovis Batebola. The story revolves around the titular character, a female masked vigilante that stalks and punishes...
Read MoreWriter and artist: Owen Heitman Amplified Press, 2016 and 2022 Some months ago, in furtherance of both better promoting independent comics publishers and indulging in unabashed parochialism, we undertook to spend more time focussing on Australian comic books (see https://www.worldcomicbookreview.com/the-other-side-of-the-world-our-infrequent-newsletter/ ). Attending the Perth Comic Art Festival today, a bustling...
Read MoreWriter: Benjamin Ruffett Art: Andrey Portilla Colours: Cristian Ramirez Witching Hour Comics, 2022 TWO YOUNG MEN, soldier age, zoom on motorcycles on a primitive road through a heavy forest at night off the eastern shore of the Black Sea near-about the place where Greek myths say Jason and the Argonauts...
Read MoreWriter: Kurt Busiek Art: Tom Grummett DC Comics, 2002 Back in 2002, long before the days of social media platforms, American publisher DC Comics operated a message board antecedent to its main website. Several creators frequented the DCMBs, as these message boards were known, mostly to help generate sales but...
Read MoreWriters : Carlos Trillo & Eduardo Maicas Artist : Jordi Bernet El Jueves (Spain), Página 12 (Argentina) 1992-2005 Prostitution is a concept we usually have quite a few problems with. On the one hand, it is a matter of using another person’s body. On the other we should be ready...
Read MoreCreator: I.N.J. Culbard (Based on a work by Robert W. Chambers, 1895) Self Made Hero, 2015 Surely one of the sharpest comics to be published in recent years, The King in Yellow‘s back cover introduces us to the eeriness of the subject matter: “Strange is the night where black stars...
Read MoreWriter: Bill Mantlo Artists: Sal Buscema, Mike Mignola, Gerry Taloc Marvel Comics, 1984 STAYING YOURSELF is such a devious trick. Which part is which among I and you in a habitat habitating with a hundred eyes and voices within and without concentrating inside this moment together as one? Theoretical schizisms...
Read MoreStorytellers: Chuck Dixon, Jeff Johnson Artists: Jeff Johnson, Tom Ryder, Chris Garcia Crossgen, 2022 I TUMBLED OUT ONTO THE TILES soaked in sweat, smelling of fear and death, and clawed my way upright as explosions rocked the walls. I intended to be somewhere else. Sure, I was bedazzled by the...
Read MoreWriter (King of Spies): Mark Miller Artist (King of Spies): Matteo Scalera Image Comics / (Netflix / Millarworld), 2021-2022 Writer (Desolation Jones): Warren Ellis Artist (Desolation Jones): J. H. Williams III and José Villarrubia Wildstorm, 2005-2007 Writer and former spy Ian Fleming’s famous fictional character, James Bond, has been haunting...
Read MoreWriter and artist: Paul Pope Vertigo Comics, 2002-2003 SNOW CAN REHABILITATE even the shittiest cityscape. The gooey parts harden and you can skate across; the ugliness submerges, and for a while the place looks natural, same way the night casts shadows that submerge the distances. A city in the snow...
Read MoreDark Crisis: Worlds Without a Justice League – Superman #1 Writer: Tom KingArtist: Chris Burnham DC Comics, 12 July 2022 Dark Crisis: Worlds Without a Justice League – Superman is an arrow in the overstuffed quiver of tie-in comics for American superhero comic book publisher DC Comics’ ongoing summer event,...
Read MoreWriter/Artist : Masakazu Katsura Weekly Shonen Jump, December 1989-April 1992 It is trite to say that love, as a concept, is something not so easy to explain. We do not mean that love cannot be analyzed and presented in a clear form, but rather, it can both be seen as...
Read MoreCreated by Brian Wood Additional art: Becky Cloonan Dark Horse, 1997 THIS IS WHAT ANARCHY LOOKS LIKE. I have been called all those things says hacker airwave pirate Jennie 2.5 in a radio interview, a Socialist, a Communist, an Anarchist, all capitalized one notices, while she is none of them...
Read MoreWriter: Alan Moore Artist: Kevin O’Neill America’s Best Comics, 1999, 2002, 2018 NOCTURNAL MAMMALS relinquished daylight to the dragons and those long nights I believe remain in us. At the end of the nineteenth century and decades on as whale oil turned to gas and then electric lamps, and rails...
Read MoreCount Crowley: Reluctant Midnight Monster Hunter vol. 1Writer: David DastmalchianArtist: Lukas Ketner Collected edition: March 2022 Count Crowley: Reluctant Midnight Monster Hunter vol. 1 is a graphic novel that collects issues #1 to #4 of the same-titled series. It was initially published by Dark Horse Comics in October, 2019. The...
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