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
Tales from the Black Hiway Volume 1 Atomic Werewolf Studio / Pitch Black Comics, 2018 Writer: Rick Forgus Southern Gothic, that sweaty literary offspring of the American Gothic of Poe, Lovecraft, and Hawthorne, is a horror sub-sub genre. Southern Gothic usually invokes the swampland of Louisiana, the decay of the postbellum South, the outlandishly grotesque … Read more
Mild Frenzy Collection Volume 1 Self-published, April 2018 Writer: Iqbal Ali Mild Frenzy is a collection of very short vignettes, each in comic book form. As collections of short stories go, the topics from the single author, Iqbal Ali, is more akin to rapidly turning a kaleidoscope. Frequently your reviewer was left after a three … Read more
Scratcher #2 Arbutus Films, April 2018 Writer: John Ward We were asked to review the second issue of this independently published horror story. Our review of the first issue in 2017 was very positive. And we were not disappointed by the continuation of the story. The protagonist, a tattooist named Dee, has made her way … Read more