Category: Graphic Novel Reviews
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Superman: Earth One Graphic Novel Review
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2010, DC Comics/Titan Books Story: J. Michael Staczynski Pencils: Shane Davis Inks: Sandra Hope Colour: Barbara Ciardo J. Michael Staczynski updates the Last Son of Kryton’s origin for the inaugural release from DC’s new Earth One imprint; the publisher’s latest attempt to attract new readers with monthly titles that are free from all the cumbersome…
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I See the Promised Land Book Review
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2010, Tara Books/Patua Graphics Writer: Arthur Flowers Artists: Manu Chitrakar, Guglielmo Rossi During my time writing reviews for this site, the question of what exactly defines a graphic novel as such rears its head on an almost weekly basis. I See the Promised Land, an illustrated account of the life of Martin Luther King Jr.,…
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The Boys vol 7: The Innocents TPB Review
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2010, Dynamite/Titan Books Story: Garth Ennis Art: Darick Robertson, Russ Braun, John Macrea, Keith Burns Colours: Tony Avina Seven volumes into The Boys and we’ve witnessed buggery, paedophilia, infanticide and more full-frontal nudity than you can furiously shake a rolled up Daily Mail at. Volume 7, ‘The Innocents’, is far lighter in tone than previous…
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Comic Book Cramathon: Garth Ennis’s The Boys pt 3
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Previously: Comic Book Cramathon: Garth Ennis’s The Boys pt 2 Garth Ennis dials the gross out meter up to 11 in Volume Five: Herogasm, in which we discover exactly what goes on in those superhero crossovers which have plagued comics for decades. In this case, Earth’s greatest heroes ostensibly depart for a war with the…
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Comic Book Cramathon: Garth Ennis’s The Boys pt 2
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Previously: Comic Book Cramathon: Garth Ennis’s The Boys pt 1 So far The Boys has been a mixed bag of superhero conspiracy theory, toilet humour and extreme ultraviolence. With Volume Three: Good for the Soul, Ennis takes a breather, letting The Legend fill Hughie in on the Ennis’s intricate back-story. This couldn’t have come sooner,…
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Comic Book Cramathon: Garth Ennis’s The Boys pt 1
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Welcome to Comic Book Cramathon, the first (and hopefully not the last) in a series I’ll be sporadically running. The basic challenge I’m setting for myself is to review a series within a week; be it a series I overlooked, underappreciated or completely misunderstood during its early years, or a run that I’ve been buying…
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Lenore: Cooties TPB Review
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2010, Titan Books Written and illustrated by Roman Dirge Cooties is the third hardback outing for Lenore, a quirky gothic minx who’s featured in a regular comic series and several animated shorts, and seems destined to grace black T-shirts for many years to come. Collecting the final third of the original Slave Labor Graphics run…
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Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs. Zombies! Review
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2010, Wildstorm/Titan Books Story: Ian Edginton Art: Davide Fabbri, Tom Mandrake Colours: Carrie Strachan Yet another entry built from the “classic fiction + zombies = junk culture irony” formula, Victorian Undead takes the world’s greatest detective and – if the superfluous “Sherlock Holmes vs. Zombies!” does not already made it clear enough – pits him…