World Comic Book Review

25th April 2024

Worse Things Happen At Sea v No Place Like Space (Comparative Review)

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Worse Things Happen At Sea v No Place Like Space No-Brow Press, 2017 / Helio Press, 2017 Writer (and artist) of “Worse Things Happen At Sea: Kellie Strøm Writer (and artist) of “No Place Like Space”: Ashley Ronning When is a comic a comic? Independent publisher No Brow Press has a series of illustrated books … Read more

Doom Patrol #11 (Review)

Doom Patrol #11 DC Comics, June 2018 Writer: Gerard Way In his first, excellent title The Umbrella Academy, writer Gerard Way pays homage to Scottish writer Grant Morrison by naming a fictional park and site of a showdown after Mr Morrison. This title seems to be an extension of that adoration of Mr Morrison’s quirky … Read more

Manifest Destiny Volumes 5 (Mnenophobia and Chronophobia)

Manifest Destiny Volumes 5 (Mnenophobia and Chronophobia) Image Comics, Writer: Chris Dingess Once upon a time, Western-genre comic books sold well to an enthusiastic audience. A post-World War Two desire for a simpler, overwhelmingly white age of exploration, colonisation, and conquest of Native Americans manifested in motion pictures, books, radio, and comic books. The white … Read more

Ultraman manga to be released as a Netflix anime

Ultraman is a manga written by Eiichi Shimizu and drawn by Tomohiro Shimoguchi. Published in Monthly Hero’s since the magazine’s inaugural issue in October 2011, it is a manga sequel of the very popular 1966 Ultraman television series. Ultraman has had remarkable longevity, for a concept which started off in what we would now regard … Read more