World Comic Book Review

25th April 2024

Salty Seductions of the Salacious Seas (review)—“Love is the motive right or wrong”

Writer: David Doub Artist: Pat Binder Diamond, February 2022 Entering this finely drawn story in the quiet meadows of Cornwall, traveling in a carriage drawn by a team of four horses, looks more comfortable than it could have been, due to the charming penmanship of both writer David Doub and artist Pat Binder, leading us … Read more

Space Oddities #1 (review)

Writers: Ben Robinson and Jon Williams Artist: Jon Williams Independently published, March 2021 Space Oddities is a sci-fi adventure comic created by the effervescent duo of Ben Robinson and Jon Williams, with illustrations handled by the latter. (Messrs Robinson and Williams are well-known for their podcast, Geekxploration.) The comic is independently published and the first … Read more

Rammur #1 (Review)

Writer: Charles SantinoArtists: Paulo Peres, Marco Perugini, Carlos Aon Independently published, May 2021 Rammur is a futuristic action comic that revolves around the titular character, a tough, no-nonsense master thief that manages to be successful despite living in a future police state. Readers who are coming in blind to Rammur #1 may get taken aback … Read more

Sidney Hammer—“Through the night longing for day”

Story and art: Massacre Embellished: Dani Seijas Amigo Amigo Comics, 2019 FLIRTING WITH BIGGER ART in European albums, deluxe editions, and hardbound absolute and omnibus collections, I skirted back to search in standard magazine formats so familiar in the mid-decades of the last century, like those dad stacked in boxes in the attic, archiving adventures, … Read more