Category: Comic Book Reviews

  • Indie Comic Spotlight: Lost in the Woods

    Indie Comic Spotlight: Lost in the Woods

    Paper Street Comics Story: Gentry Smith, Stan Wedeking Art: Daniel Wichinson (finishes, covers by Gentry Smith) Horror titles may constitute a large percentage of all indie and small press comics currently being published, but the medium is rarely used to nearly as good effect as its cinematic counterpart. Sure, horror comics can be gruesome, graphic,…

  • American Vampire #1 Comic Book Review

    American Vampire #1 Comic Book Review

    DC/Vertigo, $3.99 Writers: Scott Snyder, Stephen King Art: Rafael Albuquerque Colours: Dave McCaig It’s practically impossible to review American Vampire without first mentioning that Vertigo’s latest marks the comic book debut of Stephen King, who’ll be providing a 5-part secondary tale in this ongoing “vampires through the ages” series from Scott Snyder. And a solid…

  • Indie Comic Spotlight: The Erotic Adventures of Space Babe 113

    Indie Comic Spotlight: The Erotic Adventures of Space Babe 113

    Site: www.spacebabe113.co.uk Written and illustrated by John Maybury Despite its promises of full frontal nudity, The Erotic Adventures of Space Babe 113 isn’t, by purest definition, as erotic as the name might suggest. Not once did it arouse sexual desire in me. Rather, John Maybury’s surreal little series is a bizarre, sex-obsessed space comedy that…

  • First Wave #1 (of 6) Comic Book Review

    First Wave #1 (of 6) Comic Book Review

    DC, $3.99 Writer: Brian Azzerello Art: Rags Monzales Colours: Nei Ruffino When DC resurrected Will Eisner’s The Spirit, the job went to the only man who could; Darwyn Cooke, whose retro-stylised lines and storytelling sensibilities already reflected the optimism of the late 40s and 50s. As with the Spirit, Doc Samson was recently welcomed back…

  • Green Hornet #1 Comic Book Review

    Green Hornet #1 Comic Book Review

    Dynamite, $3.99 Script: Kevin Smith Breakdowns: Phil Hester Pencils: Jonathan Lau Colours: Ivan Nunes Seth Rogan’s unlikely adaptation of radio superhero the Green Hornet is scheduled for December this year, and Dynamite are definitely making the most of the licence, with a prequel series, a Kato spin-off, a futuristic take on the masked vigilante, and…

  • Stephen King’s N. #1 Comic Review

    Stephen King’s N. #1 Comic Review

    Marvel, $3.99 Creative director: Stephen king Script: Marc Guggenheim Art: Alex Maleev The sequential art edition of Stephen King’s N. has a somewhat convoluted production history. Originally part of King’s short story collection Just After Sunset, it was translated into a series of twenty-five ninety second-long video “mobisodes” by Spider-man and Flash writer Marc Guggenheim…

  • Omnitarium #2 Comic Book Review

    Omnitarium #2 Comic Book Review

    Ronin Sudios Writer: Jamie Gambell Art: J.C. Grande Letters: Bernie Lee Issue 1 of Jamie Gambell’s sinister period horror Omnitarium was a book of two distinct acts. An action-packed prologue detailed the execution of cultist Harrow Moonheart a century before the main events of a second, slower and more ominous half set within the confines…

  • Song of Saya #1 Comic Review

    Song of Saya #1 Comic Review

    IDW, $3.99 Writers: Daniel Liatowitsch, Todd Ocvirk Art: Yair Herrera A young doctor’s promise is cut short when a car accident kills his parents and leaves him in need of experimental brain surgery. Josh finds his perceptions warping from between our established reality and a hellish landscape of organic, haemorrhaging structures and hideous physiognomies. Now…