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Rock Candy Mountain #1 (Review)

April 13, 2017April 12, 2017 by Neil Raymundo

Rock Candy Mountain #1 Image Comics, April 2017 Writer: Kyle Starks Many people have the impression that “hobo” and “tramp” are interchangeable terms for someone constantly traveling, usually impoverished, and generally homeless. To be fair, the terms have perhaps changed over time to be synonymous. But there is, at least technically, a dictionary distinction. A … Read more

Moonshine #5 (Review)

April 21, 2022February 20, 2017 by Paul Murphy

Moonshine #5
Image Comics, February 2017
Writer: Brian Azzarello

It’s hard to think of a current comic with a pulpier premise than that of Moonshine by American publisher Image Comics. The series, in short, tells a Southern tale of hillbilly werewolves and the mafioso gangsters who want them dead.

Luckily, pulp is where creators Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso are most at home. The duo began their collaboration with the lauded noir tale “100 Bullets” as part of DC Comics under the Vertigo imprint. After forays into the superhero and science-fiction genres, the duo’s arrival at Image Comics marks their return to crime-driven stories.

God Country #1 (review)

January 17, 2017 by Neil Raymundo

God Country #1
Image Comics, January 11, 2017
Writer: Donny Cates

“God Country” is a new comic book series from innovative American publisher Image Comics. The title revolves around an enchanted sword that was brought to a West Texas town by a storm. An old widower named Emmett Quinlan is suffering from either Alzheimer’s disease or dementia (we are aware of the differences between the two and hope we do not cause offence by using the terms interchangeably in this critique). Emmett has his mental and physical health mysteriously restored upon wielding the sword.

The Root of All Evil: The Black Monday Murders #1-2 (review)

December 12, 2016December 11, 2016 by DG Stewart

The Black Monday Murders #1-2 (review)
Image Comics, September/ October 2016
Writer: Jonathan Hickman

If this title disturbs, it is because one of the most talented writers in American comic book industry, Jonathan Hickman, does a spectacular job of convincing the reader that he has kicked away at the topsoil of the falsehood of capitalism, humanity’s real and dirty habitat. Underneath lies a mouldy and parasitic truth to economics vastly terrible, and despite the black mystical elements of the story somehow it makes the world make perfect sense.

The methods by which the global capital markets work are a mystery to most. The idea of making money by moving money from one asset type to another by way of investment seems straightforward enough. But terms such as arbitrage, Libor, derivatives, hedge funds, short selling and, famously, sub-prime could just as easily be a foreign language to most people. The language itself does not mystify. The concepts themselves are alien.