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October 9, 2025 7:22 pm

Captain Planet and the Planeteers #5 (review)

Neil Raymundo September 30, 2025 No Comments

Writer: David Pepose Artist: Eman Casallos Dynamite Entertainment, September 2025 In Captain Planet and the Planeteers #5, writer David Pepose continues to prove that he is an expert at reviving 1990s cartoons in a way that honors the colorful campy sensibilities while updating it just enough to resonate with today’s audience. Here is publisher Dynamite Entertainment’s promotional copy: In this issue: Captain Pollution has seized the day, and things are looking deadly for both the Planeteers and the planet itself! Now, the team must come together one last time and find the strength to summon their most powerful ally for a final showdown against the corrupting force of Lucian Plunder!Longstanding Friends of Gaia DAVID PEPOSE and EMAN CASALLOS turn up the heat in Captain Planet #5 – offset by cooling covers from CHAD HARDIN, CHRISTIAN WARD, BEN OLIVER, and connecting art from JAE LEE & JUNE CHUNG! One of the

Space Ghost Vol. 2 #3 (Review)

Neil Raymundo September 23, 2025 No Comments

Writer: David Pepose Artist: Jonathan Lau Dynamite Entertainment, September 2025 You would be mistaken for thinking from this cover that you had dropped accidentally into Mega-City One and encountered a Judge. But this is Dynamite Comics, not 2000AD. Here is the promotional copy of this latest issue of Space Ghost: TERROR DEFROSTED! The ancient barbarian known as Tarko the Terrible was lost in a blood-soaked battle across the icy tundra. Now, millennia later, his frozen form has been discovered in a block of ice — and once he thaws out, he’ll find a whole new galaxy ripe for conquest! Can Space Ghost and company stop this time-lost warrior from wreaking havoc upon the future? Or will our heroes find themselves on the wrong end of Tarko’s blade? Find out in the third issue of unfrozen comics creators DAVID PEPOSE and JONATHAN LAU’s celebrated Space Ghost — featuring cryogenically cool covers

Happy 70th birthday, Phantom Stranger

DG Stewart February 11, 2022 No Comments

Created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino, DC Comics, August 1952 In a genre obsessed with origin stories, the Phantom Stranger is a complete oddity.

Adventure Illustrated #1 (review)

DG Stewart February 10, 2022 No Comments

Writers: Gary Chaloner, Tad Pietrzykowski, Tim McEwan Artist: Gary Chaloner, Tim McEwan, Michael Michalandos Cyclone Comics, November 2020 This anthology is divided into three separate

Timeless #1 (review)

DG Stewart February 7, 2022 No Comments

Writer: Jed MacKay Artists: Kev Walker, Greg Land, Jay Leisten, Mark Bagley, Andrew Henessey Marvel Comics, February 2022 Evergreen Avengers‘ antagonist Kang is not a

Breakwater (Review)

Neil Raymundo February 5, 2022 No Comments

Creator: Katriona Chapman Avery Hill Press, 2021 Katriona Chapman’s Breakwater is a non-fiction graphic novel centered on the mundane life of Chris, a woman in

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (review)

DG Stewart February 3, 2022 No Comments

Writer: John Reppion Artist: Mark Penman Independently published, 2021 Aficionadoes of medieval English will enjoy this new interpretation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,

A Walk Through Hell (review)

Greggory Basore February 2, 2022 No Comments

Early on, during the point where The Pandemic was still just “That thing that’s like the flu, but a little worse” in the minds of most U.S. Americans, a book written by Garth Ennis with art by Goran Sudzuka, was quietly released in a market glutted with many works and a lot of horror competing for the eyeballs and off hours of readers across the world.