World Comic Book Review

28th March 2024

M.A.S.K. Mobile Armored Strike Kommand First Strike #1 (Review)

M.A.S.K. Mobile Armored Strike Kommand First Strike #1 IDW Publishing, November 2017 Writer: Aubrey Sitterson M.A.S.K. (Mobile Armored Strike Kommand) is a toy and cartoon franchise that was originally created by Kenner (a now-defunct toy company) in 1985. It involved an altruistic paramilitary group and their rival criminal organization V.E.N.O.M. Like many of the cartoon/toy … Read more

Agent 47: Birth of a Hitman #1 (Review)

Agent 47: Birth of a Hitman #1 Dynamite Entertainment, November 2017 Writer: Christopher Sebela Contemporary video game plots can be intricate, heavy things, comprising thousands of man-hours of plot and backstory development, embodied in a “bible” which dictates the game’s continuity. The main problem with comic book adaptations of popular videogame franchises is that the … Read more

Call of Duty: Zombies #1-4 (review)

Call of Duty: Zombies #1-4 Dark Horse Comics, Jan – April 2017 – ongoing Writer: Justin Jordan Sometimes we think our task in writing these reviews is akin to being a restaurant reviewer. This time, we have opted for fast food. “Call of Duty: Zombies” is a comic book mini-series from American publisher Dark Horse … Read more

Angry Birds Game Play #1 (Review)

Angry Birds Game Play #1
Kaiken Publishing Ltd / IDW Publishing, January 2017
Writers: Tito Faradi / Francois Corteggiani / Janne Toriseva

Online games have a long history of being supported by ancillary publishing material such as comics, magazines and books. “Angry Birds” is an online game originally developed in Finland by a company called Rovio Entertainment. Such was the significance of the game’s development in Finland that national airline carrier Finn-Air featured various Angry Birds characters on the nose of one of its Airbus passenger aircraft.

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