Tag: Image Comics
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Orc Stain # 1 Comic Review
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Image, $2.99 Story, Art: James Stokoe Image may not be as prominent a publisher as it once was, but just compare titles such as The Walking Dead, Invincible and Chew to the stream of derivative crap the company is still best known for, and that’s perhaps a good thing. Orc Stain, Image’s new creator-owned title…
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God Complex #1 Comic Review
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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…
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Chew Volume 1: Taster’s Choice TPB Review
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2009, Image Story: John Layman Art: Rob Guillory Detective Tony Chu is a cibopath – a telepath whose psychic abilities are connected to his taste buds. When Tony eats an apple, he visualises it being plucked for the tree. When he eats meats, he’s left with far more horrific recollections. After a strain of bird…
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Image United #1 Review
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Image, $3.99 Story: Robert Kirkman Art: Erik Larsen, Rob Liefeld, Todd McFarlane, Whilce Portacio, Marc Silvestri, Jim Valentino, Niko Koutsis, Mike Toris You know that scene in a horror movie where either a predestined protagonist or unwitting soon-to-be victim finds themselves being sub-consciously drawn towards a tome of utter evil in a dusty old bookshop?…
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Powers vol.3 #1 Review
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Icon, $3.99 Story: Brian Michael Bendis Art: Mike Avon Oeming, Nick Filardi Detective Christian Walker returns in this new regular run, one which will hopefully avoid the shipping delays of the past two volumes. This issue finds a nice balance between following the continuity-heavy story and providing a jumping-on point for newcomers. Not only does…
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Cowboy Ninja Viking #1 Review
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Image Oct 09, $3.50 Story: AJ Lieberman Art: Riley Rossmo Generally it’s pretty easy to summarise a new comic series by its title, and I like to think I’d be forgiven for assuming that Pirate Ninja Viking was a lazy parody of crossover events and genre mish-mashes. Well, I couldn’t have been further form the…
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Haunt #1 Comic Book Review
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Image Writer: Robert Kirkman Pencils: Ryan Ottley, Greg Capullo (layouts) Inks: Todd McFarlane Colours: FCO Plascencia When Grant Morrison described his early creation Zenith as a reaction to torment superheroes, he could easily have been implicating Haunt, a new series from Images that is utterly joyless, humourless and devoid of that sense of magic and…
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Cyber Force/Hunter-Killer #1 Comic Review
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Top Cow Writer: Mark Waid Art: Kenneth Rocafort To appease my sado-masochistic tendencies, I’ve got into the habit of forcing myself to review at least one comic per week that I wouldn’t buy otherwise. This week I gravitated to Cyber Force/Hunter Killer in an effort to cleanse my mind of the original Image series, which…