World Comic Book Review

29th March 2024

Von Bach #1 (review) —“Death becomes you”

Writer: Owen Hammer Art: Mariano Navarro Color: Hernan Cabrera Hammer Comics, 2021 THE RECORD OF OUR LIVES keeps expanding with remakes. Each leap in expression from talking to writing to printing to video has aroused contemporary complaints that enormous loads of stupidity and falsehood disseminate by new means more widely than ever before. Facility outdistances … Read more

Ex Machina (revisited) —“Try talking to my marbles”

Writer: Brian K. Vaughan Artists: Tony Harris, Tom Feister Vertigo Comics, 2004–2010 BRAINS BOND WITH MACHINERY in a natural texture like grain in wood, fleshing out a living creature beyond us. It looks natural to talk to machines like kin as occurs in EX MACHINA by Brian K. Vaughan, started in 2004, and now collected … Read more

Revisiting Free Comic Book Day in 2019: Spooksville / Street Fighter (a comparative review) —“Come say boo to my face buddy”

Writers: Pat Shand, Mike Wolfer/Ken Siu-Chong Artists: Eric Shanower/Omar Dogan American Mythology/Udon, 2019 A GHOST NUDGED MY ARM while rifling stacks on Free Comic Book Day in 2019, couldn’t help it, I came home with Casper’s “Spooksville,” a reissue of CASPER THE FRIENDLY GHOST, whom I formerly knew well from the age of diapers and … Read more