September 10, 2024 8:17 pm

Nemesis: Rogues Gallery #1 (review)

Writer: Mark Millar Artist: Valerio Giangiordano Dark Horse Comics, July 2024 Nemesis: Rogues’ Gallery picks up where Mr Millar’s title Big Game ends. The world’s deadliest costumed assassin (at least the only one surviving after the events of Big Game) is wrapped from head-to-toe in bandages and unable to move from the neck down. Reduced to being fed chicken soup by a well-meaning nurse, and under guard by two soldiers with automatic weapons, Nemesis’ career seems to be at a dead end. Good, you might say. Supervillains with two-dimensional amorality don’t deserve the ink. But, by the end of this first issue, Nemesis has spat a chicken bone fragment into the eye of a guard, been rescued by henchmen in a daring raid, ordered the nurse to be gratuitously blinded, bathed in the blood of the recently murdered as a means to sorcerous recovery from his injuries, and seems to

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Gridley #2 (review) – The Hanging Tree

Creator: Sid Quade Funcertainty Box, 2024 Our favourite curmudgeon were-hyena/goat returns in Gridley #2. We very enjoyed much enjoyed the first issue of this title: consider our review from January 2024: https://www.worldcomicbookreview.com/2024/01/16/gridley-1-review-the-exile/ . Giles Gridley, a Kaftar sorcerer, is in exile and forced to slum it with the hoi polloi, but he has quickly found gainful employment as an ectomancer in a dusty Western town. Creator Sid Quade helpfully in this issue provides us with a breakdown of the three different types of sorcery in his universe: That’s Gridley in the middle. Gridley is brilliant in his art, but detached from social etiquette, and so inevitably Mr Quade decides to give Gridley an apprentice, named Hester Ariti, to bring Gridley back to earth and to act as Gridley’s foil. Hester resembles a hyper-cute house cat and sounds like a yokel, and the aristocratic Gridley responds with distaste. (We have started

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Deer Editor volume 1 (review)

Writer: Ryan K Lindsay Art: Sami Kivela Mad Cave Studios, May 2024 A large deer is an investigative journalist in a large semi-rural town, dealing with

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Jenny Sparks Book 1 (review)

Writer: Tom King Art: Jeff Spokes DC Comics (Black Label imprint), October 2024 Tempus fugit. Twenty-four years ago, writer Warren Ellis observed the end of

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The He-Man Effect (review)

Creator: Brian “Box” Brown First Second Books, 2023 This somewhat depressing title was published last year. Here is the promotional copy: Brian “Box” Brown brings

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The Hard Switch (review)

Creator: Owen Pomery Avery Hill Press, October 2023 The promotional copy for this title is set out below: The time approaches when the mineral that

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Runes (review)

Writer: Steve Cronin Artist – Sergi Domench Independently published, 2024 Runes is an adventure into a remote Scottish region by two scientists, Dr Cal Norton

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Space Ghost #3 (Review)

Writer: David PeposeArtist: Jonathan LauDynamite, July 3rd, 2024 When we reviewed Space Ghost’s first issue, we praised it for being an effective plot springboard while

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