A Deep Six’d Publication
Writer : James Babineau Artist : Caius Schereiner, Debora Lancianese Colorist : Michael Woods Letterer : Rob Jones Rabbit Hole Studios, 2020-2022 A few hints, a lot left unanswered, questions that pile up over other questions, and the innocence of not knowing nor really understanding what is going on… although,...
Read MoreSpawn, a comic book title created by Todd McFarlane and published by Image Comics since 1992, features an American superhero character with an interesting pedigree. Spawn is distinguishable by “a “neural parasite cloak,” a particularly shaped face mask, green eyes and a red “M” on the chest”, as described by...
Read MoreCreative Team: Kylar Merrell (co-editor)Derrick Crow (co-editor) – 20+ other creators including Ben Humeniuk, Tiffany McLeod, Johnny Cassidy, Phillip Butehorn, Nick Bryan, and Luc Nakashoji Foreign Press Comics, 2022 Hopping from one place to another, multidimensional being the kind of travel we are talking about, proves to be quite a difficult...
Read MoreCreator: Gareth Brookes Self Made Man, 2021 Before we get to the subject matter of this surprisingly confronting comic, The Dancing Plague, we must first consider some of the marvellous artistic techniques used by its creator, Gareth Brookes. Mr Brookes’ education includes the study of printmaking at the Royal College...
Read MoreTwo-Face is not a very original character. A criminal, half-scarred, with psychotic tendencies? Another madman in the queue of Batman’s long line of adversaries, and not a potent one at that. Two-Face is a remarkably original character. Batman’s enemy Two-Face had his first appearance in Detective Comics #66, August 1942...
Read MoreWriter/Artist : Darryl Cunningham Publisher : Myriad Editions, 2021 As I look at the blank page in front of me, trying to fill it with words that might give you, the reader, an idea as to what this book is about, I realize there is a not so hidden hope...
Read MoreStory: Matt Moylan Art: Genzoman Udon, April 2022 PAY ATTENTION TO DETAILS and a story needs no words, at least this one starring BLANKA, a green troll guy with stiff red hair, famous as one of the STREET FIGHTER MASTERS from video-game legends. Here he makes his debut in the...
Read MoreWriter/Artist : Hideo Azuma Translators : Kumar Sivasubramanian & Elizabeth Tiernan Publisher : Ponent Mon, 2005 Depression, a concept we are so used to nowadays, is that kind of feeling that leads to a complete numbness of our mental capacity. There seems to be no easy way out, in such...
Read MoreCreator: Marjane Satrapi Jonathan Cape, 2008 If you’ve ever seen or heard of anything from Marjane Satrapi, it’s probably her groundbreaking work Persepolis which was a graphic novel and then a cartoon movie. Maybe it’s Chicken with Plums, which she adapted into a live action film, but if you’ve seen...
Read MoreWriter: Ivan Brandon Artists: Esad Ribic, Nic Klein Image Comics, 2018 THE ART DREW MY EYE from the start. VS covers and alternate covers all share a fine eye for design, including the bold yet nearly invisible logo in outline, and precise, sleek illustration that looks in its city scenes...
Read MoreNow, imagine Encyclopedia Brown taking on cases that involve Lovecraftian nightmare creatures, but with the New England flavor swapped out for a Mid Western taste profile. That’s the second half of the equation from two creators named Marcos and Ed. One could tell you what the third part of the...
Read MoreWriter: 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...
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