Creator: Howard Chaykin First Comics, 1983-1988 The calendar has now slipped over to 2023, which gives us an immediate and overly enthusiastic excuse to look back to 1983 as an anniversary year. By any measure, 1983 was a remarkably creative year for American comic books. For those of us old enough to remember, 1983 saw … Read more
Creators: Tommaso Todesca, Alex Franquelli, Giulio Tomassy Markosia Enterprises Ltd; Illustrated edition (20 April 2020) ** We, Homo Sapiens, represent the evolutionary zenith of the genus Homo: we have created scientific and technological miracles in less than 300,000 years. Before us, however, another Homo species lived on Earth for almost 2 million years. That species … Read more
Authors: Kaja and Phil Faglio Illustrator: Phil Faglio Colors: Cheyenne Wright Airship, 2015 A LOCOMOTIVE HEADLAMP flickers in the distance and grows stronger. A warm, welcome feeling arises as the train arrives where you stand bundled up alone in a falling snow that sheathes the landscape. All the roads have disappeared. This opening scene in … Read more
Writer: Jonathan Hickman Artist: Mike Huddleston Image Comics, 2022 Staying in the shadow of Shakespeare’s rebuilt Globe Theatre in Southwark on the Thames, your reviewer picked up the collected edition of the science fiction title Decorum at a comic shop on a recent business trip to London, and then spent what should have been a … Read more