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Writer: Karla Nappi Artist: Marianna Strychowska Self-published, 2021 This is the third issue of writer Karla Nappi’s medical dystopia, Duplicant. We have previously reviewed issues one and two: https://www.worldcomicbookreview.com/2019/12/31/duplicant-1-review/ Readers of our first review will recall that the series deals with the opportunistic response of biotechnology corporation Regenerist Tech to the effects...
Read MoreWriter : Brian Azzarello Artist : Jim Lee Publisher : DC Comics, December 2019 Superheroes are creatures who possess such powers that make them more than human; a god (or a semi-god) is a creature who possesses such powers that make him or her more than human. It easy to...
Read MoreWriter: Doug Moench Artists: Over 40 top comics artists Paradox / DC Comics, 1997 NEARLY TWO HUNDRED PAGES of amazing black-and-white panels tell inky “tales of paranormal phenomena” in this BIG BOOK OF THE UNEXPLAINED, a title in a series that ran through the 1990s, starting with an award-winning Big...
Read MoreCreator: Shigeru Mizuki First published in in Japanese in Kodansha magazine Shukan Gendai, 1973 Published in English by : Drawn & Quarterly Year : 2018 (first publication 2011) There are not many people left who fought in the Second World War. One day (not too far in the future) there will be no...
Read MoreWriters: Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello Artists: Andy Kubert, Frank Miller and others DC Comics, 2016 RESOLUTION IS THE HEART OF POWER is very often the message of heroes, asserting that will matters most to overcome impossible odds. Of course good will is also slaughtered by bad odds, and some...
Read MoreCreators: Richard Fairgray, Paul Eiding, and Terry Jones Golden Apple, 2018-2020 WHEN I LAUGHED OUT LOUD WATCHING the birth, growth, and instant demise of Mr. Meatball on the floor next to the dining room table, I knew I had unwittingly slipped into the dinosaur story. Sure there’s a dinosaur here,...
Read MoreWriter: Scott Bryan Wilson Artist: Juan Gedeon DC Comics, October 2021 Pennyworth, featuring long-time comic book butler and aide-de-camp to Batman, Alfred Pennyworth, is a limited series currently being published by DC Comics. A cynic might say that the timing of this comic book’s release is intended to coincide with...
Read MoreWriter : Antonio Altarriba Art : Keko Publisher : Norma Editorial – 2014 (Spanish edition) “Matar es un arte”, that is, killing is an art. What kind of art it is may lead the reader down a path that is better left sleeping. Yet, as curiosity is what makes man...
Read MoreWriter: Warren Ellis Artist: Darick Robertson Vertigo Comics / DC Black Label GOOD NEWS: Absolute Transmetropolitan, Volume 3, was released in November 2018. In the beginning, when Spider Jerusalem got a call from the city saying he owed a book on politics, and another one too, or goodbye paycheck, he...
Read MoreWriter: Brian Michael Bendis Artist: Alex Maleev DC Comics, August 2021 Writer Brian Michael Bendis catches a lot of grief from online readers of superhero comics. The snappy and colloquial dialogue, the in-depth knowledge of American superhero continuity, and the character-driven storylines seem to irritate as much as please the...
Read MoreWritten by Gary Proudley Illustrated by Jake Bartok, James Brouwer, Mitch Collins, Holly Fox, Scott Fraser, Katie Houghton-Ward, Marc Noble, Skye Ogden, Craig Phillips, Sarah Winifred Searle, Trev Wood Gestalt Comics, February 2020 Save for Groo the Wanderer and Cerebus, sword-and-sorcery warriors tend to be big hulking fellows in loin...
Read MoreWriter: Rodney Barnes Artist: Selina Espiritu Lion Forge, 2019 IMAGINE THE SURFACE OF REALITY skims past in a wave of ungraspable details, making a visible current in the elapsing moment as one’s self stands unmoved and unmovable, untouched in the center, filling with holy power as all things as “things”...
Read MoreWriter : Javier Olivares Artist : Santiago García 2015, Astiberri (Spain) / Fantagraphics (USA) Art, it should be noted, is not something that happens per se. The presence of a man performing the action is required, as a nook cannot be written by itself, nor a picture be painted by...
Read MoreCreator: Emma Evans 2020 This is a non-fiction diary of the beginnings of the Covid-19 pandemic as experienced by an artist in London. Emma Evans turns 30 during the course of the pandemic. Without any intention of being patronising in any way, she is a young person, in an industry...
Read MoreWriters: Mirka Andolfo and David Goy Artists: Mirka Andolfo and various others Ablaze, September 2021 PANDERING TO PRURIENCE once in a while has to be all right. Papa says no, honey, but come on, no one can no what we know. Peppy pop songs continue to drown us in these...
Read MoreWriter and Artist: Takashi Murakami NBM Publishing (vol. 1), 2011 (The review is based on the Italian editions of the volumes, published from Edizioni BD) It starts with two corpses. One belongs to a man, the other to a dog. The first has been dead for one year, the second...
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