Tag: comic books

  • Mass Effect: Redemption #2 Comic Review

    Mass Effect: Redemption #2 Comic Review

    Dark Horse, $3.50 Story: Mac Walters Script: John Jackson Miller Art: Omar Francia Colours: Michel Atiyeh The universe Bioware have forged for Mass Effect is nothing short of magnificent, but it doesn’t take a particularly keen eye to spot the problem in expanding this blossoming space opera franchise into other media. While the promotional material…

  • Pilot Season: Murderer #1 Review

    Pilot Season: Murderer #1 Review

    Top Cow, $2.99 Story: Robert Kirkman Pencils: Nelson Blake II Inks: Sal Regla Colours: Dave McCaig Often considered more “content writers” than literary artistes, comic writers seem destined to grab at whatever conventions are currently popular and craft tales that are familiar enough to sell to fans of the fictional fad of the moment (at…

  • God Complex #1 Comic Review

    God Complex #1 Comic Review

    Image, $2.99 Story: Mike Oeming Script: Dan Berman, Mike Oeming Art: John Broglia Colours: Dan Berman You only have to glance at the first issue of God Complex, the new series by Oemin, Berman and Broglia, to appreciate who the series’ target market is. From the TV animation inspired artwork to Oeming’s dialogue-heavy script, God…

  • Daytripper #1 Review

    Daytripper #1 Review

    Vertigo, 2009 By: Fabio Moon, Gabriel Bá Colours: Dave Stewart Eisner Award winning Brazilian duo Fabio Moon and Gabriel Bá’s new series Daytripper is a mature title in the truest sense. And by that I don’t mean that this is a comic that feels the need to shove tits and incest in the reader’s face…

  • Grim Crew Presents: Dead Future #3 Review

    Grim Crew Presents: Dead Future #3 Review

    2009, Grim Crew Writers: Martin Brandt II, Tiffany Brandt, Adam Wilson Artists: Gaston Pacheco, Drake Harris, Michael Stewart, Mark Dodson See also: Grim Crew Presents: Dead Future #1 and #2 Review Martin Brandt and company continue to forecast the undead apocalypse in this anthology series by writers and artists from around the world. As with…

  • Dark X-Men #1 Review

    Dark X-Men #1 Review

    Marvel, $3.99 Story: Paul Cornell Art: Leonard Kirk, Jay Leisten, Brian Leber Norman Osborn’s own band of merry mutants get yet another miniseries. As with much of Marvels’ Dark Reign related material, it’s decently written, nicely illustrated… but somehow feels completely unnecessary. Whereas the central plot element of the Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men Utopia crossover was…

  • JSA All-Stars #1 Review

    JSA All-Stars #1 Review

    DC, $3.99 Story: Matthew Sturges Art: Freddie Williams II, Richard Horie, Tanya Horie Matt Sturges and Bill Willingham’s recent ‘The Bad Seed’ arc in Justice Society of America, ended with the destruction of the Brownstone and the downcast team’s decision to split in two. Much like the JSA itself, the All-Stars line-up consists of both…

  • Fall of the Hulks: Alpha Review

    Fall of the Hulks: Alpha Review

    Marvel, $3.99 Story: Jeff Parker Art: Paul Pelletier, Vicente Cifuentes, Guru eFX Like the green goliath himself, the Hulk series and its offshoots have grown out of control, and currently exist in a state of flux that nobody seems able to fix. Fortunately, Jeff Parker, whose immensely enjoyable Agents of ATLAS has been a definite…