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Writer: Darin Henry Artists: Ron Frenz, Glenn Whitmore Sitcomics, 2018 I PERMANENTLY CHANGED BODIES for this one. Now I am tall, dark, and handsome, no wait, that was me before. Now I am a dumb teen too cool for school, with a pimply face and gangly limbs that the artists...
Read MoreWriter: David Pepose Artist: Carols Magno Marvel Comics, May 2022 Savage Avengers is a new comic book series published by US superhero publisher Marvel Comics, and penned by David Pepose. Mr Pepose has an impressive resume of recent comic book works that includes the Spencer & Locke mini-series and the...
Read MoreWriter: Mark Waid Art: Dan Mora DC Comics, 2022 ’ll be honest: I feel tremendously burned out on Batman comic-books. He’s a character that, at least in my opinion, has been so overutilized by DC, and so exploited for all kinds of events, that I no longer feel thrill when...
Read MoreOn 20 May 2022 George Perez passed away. Mr Perez had been suffering from pancreatic cancer. For many longstanding readers of American comic books, Perez debris – cracked or granulated stone – was an indicia of a 1980s childhood lost in the world of superheroes. Mr Perez’s panels were peppered...
Read MoreCreator/Writer: Jon Lock Art: Ash Jackson et al. Independent, 2022 COMPENDIUM BOOKS COMPILING bodies of work are handsome favorites these days standing bold on a shelf, or minus printing costs still impressive when loaded in a portable document onscreen to spill colored pages one after another on a long downhill...
Read MoreWriter/Artist : Shigeru Mizuki Translator : Jocelyne Allen Published by : Drawn & Quarterly Year : 2019 (Original Japanese text: 1977) Time and time again we are reminded of how the past has been building up into our present, the structure of lost events being reproduced into the ever-changing and...
Read MoreWriter and Artist: Ben Lacy Biting Comics, 2022 Rather sadly, in 2019, a friendly and inquisitive Beluga whale was found swimming off the coast of Norway with a camera attached to a harness around its neck. The BBC website reported at the time: “An investigation was launched by Norway’s domestic...
Read MoreA story both timely and timeless. Creator: Peter Taylor Independent, 2021-2022 Every once in awhile, the timing of a story’s release can be just as important as it’s contents. Such is the case with Wren by Peter Taylor. Here is the promotional copy from the Kickstart website: Wren is a...
Read MoreWriter: C. Michael Forsyth Artist: Vincenzo Pietropaolo Night Cage is an adult horror comic penned by C. Michael Forsyth, with pencils and ink done by Vincenzo Pietropaolo. The comic’s story revolves around a group of female prisoners trapped inside an underground maximum security prison, while a vampire turns all the...
Read MoreGround-breaking American comic book artist Neal Adams died this week, aged 80. Mr Adams had a distinctive style which was unlike any of his contemporaries. In the 1970s, Mr Adams pushed comic book art to a new level of professionalism. His work is the inspiration for other formidable artists like...
Read MoreCreated by Sorab Del Rio and Don Ticchio Artist: Emerson Dimaya Colourist: Simon A Wright Silver Fox Comics, 2017 Your reviewer worked as an English language teacher in Neyagawa, Osaka in 1996 to early 1997. The school happened to be filled with other Australians, and one lonely Nebraskan named Paul. Suffering...
Read MoreWriters: Michael Wm. Kaluta, Joel Goss Illustrator: Gary Gianni Dark Horse, 1993 SOMETIMES A PERSON defines a style superbly or rather a style defines a person fed by many others in periods we have labels for as in so many art periods, holy periods, war periods, hippie periods, assemblies of...
Read MoreWriter: Al Ewing Artists: Stefano Caselli and Federico Blee Marvel Comics. June, 2022 At the outset: an apology. This critique mentions the names of characters and various backstories which a new reader looking for some objective narrative will not follow. In that sense, our critique entirely resembles the object of...
Read MoreCo-Creators Writer: Dorian Alexander, Artist: Jeremy Raab Colorist: Gabriel Fischer Weird Trails 2021-2022 THE DANDY FOP expects admiration, and here they come in a pair. The two heretic heroes in HERETICS OF THE FATHOMLESS REALMS look like avatars for co-creators Dorian Alexander and Jeremy Raab, writer and artist, calling themselves...
Read MoreWriters: Peter B. Gillis et al. Pencilers: Herb Trimpe et al. Marvel Comics, 2021 – 2022 IMAGINARY WORLDS COLLIDE wherever creatures flourish crying me me me over you you you while us us us turn every which way more or less uncomfortably comfortable together toward multiple futures. This is the...
Read MoreAuthor: Ron Marz Artists: Marco Castiello, Flavio Dispenza, Juanchoi Created by Jan Neumann Aftershock, 2021-2022 TWO PEOPLE SOMETIMES make a pair. Comfortable mates. Watching the husband-and-wife couple in the first issues of ALMOST AMERICAN as they thread their way from sensitive Russian state intelligence jobs to exile, seeking a new...
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