Action Lab’s hit series Spencer & Locke is now a collected in trade paperback form By Amie Macias Action Lab’s beloved series, Spencer & Locke is now collected in a four issue graphic novel. Created by David Pepose, Jorge Santiago Jr., Jasen Smith, and Colin Bell, this is an action packed detective story.
Image Comics Releases Cloonan’s By Chance or Providence By Amie Macias Image Comics and Eisner Award winner Becky Cloonan team up in By Chance or Providence. Cloonan has beautifully sculpted fiction into three stand alone tales. Not only does she warn her audience with the cover that this book is going to be dark, but in the first pages she […]
The Amelia Earhart Story Continues with Elsewhere By Art Macias Did you ever wonder what happened to the legendary Amelia Earhart? Well, then, Elsehwere by Image Comics is for you! Created by Jay Faerber (The Titans,Copperhead) and Sumeyye Kesgin (Rise of the Magi, September Mourning) is a tale that begins shortly after an ill fated flight ending with Amelia and […]
By Amie Macias I don’t know about you, but I have been waiting for this book to come out since I first heard mention of it months ago. Let me tell you, it does not disappoint. Image Comics brings us another astounding debut with Redlands #1, which is set to be released on August 9th.
Image Comic’s A.D.: After Death gets collected By Amie Macias A.D.: After Death is unlike any comic book I have ever seen or read.
Creative History Comes Alive in The Death of Stalin By Daniel Schwartz When Soviet leader Joseph Stalin died, the world held its breath and waited for what would happen next. What followed his death was as insane as it was absurd.
The latest Spider-Man film brings the web slinger into the Marvel Cinematic Universe in style By Nolan P. Smith It’s been a long road for your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. From his big screen debut in 2002 to fast forwarding to 2017, the wall crawler has had five solo films, all apart from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But Captain America: Civil […]
Valiant unleashes the extremely entertaining Secret Weapons By Nolan P. Smith We have all wondered about it: what if you had a super power? What would you pick? Flight? Invincibility? X-ray vision? With Secret Weapons, we get to see some of the powers no one would ever hope for, and yet, we root for these “heroes” to succeed.
Black Mask starts a master class in killing with Beautiful Canvas By Nolan P. Smith It’s no secret: I have been a fan of Black Mask Studio since their inception. From Space Riders to We Can Never Go Home, Black Mask has created a number of astounding and creative titles. With their latest title, Beautiful Canvas, we get a book […]
By Amie Macias AfterShock Comics has brought the world a variety of books: from a legendary historic hero team up to a world overran by talking animals. Now, AfterShock brings us the beginning of the end with Babyteeth. When earthquakes announce the arrival of little baby Clark, his naive mother of 16, Sadie, has no idea what she’s unleashed. She […]
By Daniel Schwartz Warning: Spoilers below for the episode “World Enough and Time”. Any Whovian that watched social media knew John Simm would be reprising his fan-favorite role as The Master. Who knew he would do it so dramatically? Beginning the episode with a hilarious scene where Missy assumes the role of Doctor Who and tries to see how she […]
Titan Comics Brings a New Heroine to the Sequential Art World with Normandy Gold By Daniel Schwartz Move over Lara Croft, there is a new badass woman in town, and her name is Normandy Gold! From the gritty pages of the Hard Case imprint at Titan Comics comes a new series about a tough-as-nails sheriff who is searching for her […]
Image Comics Brings the Fight with Shirtless Bear Fighter By Art Macias The title alone, Shirtless Bear Fighter,makes you want to see what this book is all about!
By Kevin Hoskinson Spencer and Locke are detectives working the beat in a seedy side of town. The town is full of crime and debauchery, plenty of stuff to keep them busy. Night by night, they patrol the streets, finding bad guys, investigating murders, and ridding the streets of crime. They are a crime solving duo, the best of friends. […]
By Daniel Schwartz Legendary sci-fi writer Jack Campbell takes his acclaimed book series, The Lost Fleet to the pages of an excellent Titan Comics series.
By Art Macias The wait for the second issue of Regression is over! Brought to you by Image Comics and the team of Cullen Bunn (writer) and Danny Luckert (artist), issue #2 picks up right after the surprisingly gruesome ending of the first issue.
Kill the Minotaur dives horn deep into the world of Mythology By Amie Macias One of the best things about myths and legends is their ability to adapt over time, yet still remain true (enough) to the original story. It seems, that time and time again, an author is able to put their own creative spin into a myth in […]
Lion Forge/Magnetic Collection add Jazz Maynard to 2017’s Playlist By Nolan P. Smith When I first saw that Jazz Maynard would be coming stateside from France, I was thrilled. Even better, it was being brought to us by Lion Forge and The Magnetic Collection. What does that mean? To me, it means a high quality presentation, as Magnetic always hits […]
The Bulletproof Coffin One-Shot is brutal and brutally honest By Kevin Hoskinson Years ago artist Shaky Kane and his writing partner, David Hine, gave in and sold out by selling their comic creation to a huge publisher. They made a lot of money, were living the dream, but quickly went broke. Over the years, their friendship ended and they went […]
Winnebago Graveyard Rides in Style By Amie Macias Wow, this book took me back! Reminiscent of the cult classic horror movies of my youth, right down to the satanic, hooded figures. We are introduced to the quaint town of Acton, where on the welcome sign it states, “for an hour or a lifetime,” leaving us to wonder if they are […]
Image Comics Brings the Horror with Regression By Art Macias Image Comics has scored with another winner! Regression #1 is a one of a kind book that hits on all cylinders.
Mahfood’s Grrl Scouts: Magic Socks delves into the world’s seedy underbelly By Amie Macias This week I jumped head first without a parachute into the psychedelic, drug induced madness that is known as the Grrl Scouts: Magic Scouts from Image Comics.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Shines Like a Supernova By Nolan P. Smith When the first Guardians of the Galaxy film was about to hit theaters, there were quite a few people questioning Marvel’s decision. Why give a “third rate” team like the Guardians their own feature film? Who the heck is Star Lord? Or Groot? Well, safe to […]
The Beauty is as stunning as ever By Daniel Schwartz Publisher: Image Comics Writer: Jason A. Hurley and Jeremy Haun Artist: Thomas Nachlik Dying to be beautiful has just taken on a whole new meaning. Aside from the eventual spontaneous combustion that will kill all “Beauties”, they now have the Narcissus Killer that may just beat it to the punch.
Plastic astounds in its own way By Amie Macias Lucky for me, my editor picked me to read and review this sick comic, Plastic #1 from Image Comics. I mean sick in the good ‘ol fashioned dark comedy, perverted and gory sort of way; my favorite type of stories. Of course it’s also the sort of book that you glance […]
Boom! Studios Breaks New Ground With Godshaper By Kevin Hoskinson In the future, its not about how much money you have, the friends you keep or what you own that make you. It’s the god we keep and how they help us through life. Everyone has their own god. Those who don’t are nobodies, the lowest of the low.
Titan Comics Brings Anno Dracula to the Comic Book World By Daniel Schwartz Alternate history is always cool. Whether it is the dangerous world of the Man in the High Castle or the vampire heavy Anno Dracula universe, changes to history always open up strange and exciting possibilities.
This Image Comic’s debut for Underwinter is the beginning of something truly awesome By Art Macias Created by Ray Fawkes (The People Inside, One Soul, and Constantine), Underwinter begins his tale with a beautiful mixture of word and art that grabs the readers attention right away. His use of watercolors gives the story an almost dreamlike quality, which along with […]
Image Comics brings another strong debut with AFAR By Amie Macias Image Comics definitely found another talent belonging to artist, Leila del Duca, (known for drawing Shutter), as a writer. She does an amazing job of bringing the reader into not one, but several different fantasy worlds within this one story.
Image Comics Collects the First Arc of Arclight By Kevin Hoskinson Arclight is the story of a young noble woman, Lady Kanga, and the strange entity that takes over her physical body. The actual Lady Kanga is trapped inside the body of a monster, and lives on the outskirts of the kingdom. Alone and exiled, she is visited by her […]