Tag: superhero comics
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Brightest Day: Birds of Prey #1 Comic Review
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DC, $2.99 Story: Gail Simone Art: Ed Benes Colours: Nei Ruffino With the last Birds of Prey series getting cancelled just over a year ago, you’d be forgiven for thinking that DC’s reboot would take Oracle, Huntress, Black Canary and company in a new direction. But no: essentially, part 1 of ‘Endrun’ is business as…
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Brightest Day #3 Comic Book Review
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DC, $2.99 Story: Geoff Johns, Peter J. Tomasi Pencils: Ivan Reis, Patrick Gleason, Ardian Syaf, Scott Clark, Joe Prado Inks: Vicente Cifuentes, David Beaty, Mark Irwin Colours: Peter Steigerwald, John Starr, Beth Sotelo It think it’s safe to say that Brightest Day #0’s memorable opening – which for those that didn’t read it, featured a…
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Zatanna #1 Comic Book Review
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DC, $2.99 Story: Paul Dini Pencils: Stephane Roux Inks: Karl Story Colours: John Kalisz Appealing to the hot-magician-in-fishnets fetishist in us all, Zatanna is a fan favourite who has long deserved a regular series. But she’s also the sort of property that demands a capable writer; for every Neil Gaiman who’s portrayed Zatanna at her…
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S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 Comic Book Review
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Marvel, $3.99 Story: Jonathan Hickman Art: Dustin Weaver Colours: Christina Strain In S.H.I.E.L.D., Jonathon Hickman (Fantastic Four, Secret Warriors) has come up with one of those ideas so darn brilliant, you can’t help but wonder how nobody else came up with it earlier. This is S.H.I.E.L.D. through the ages; from Egypt, 2620 BC, to Renaissance…
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Nemesis #1 Comic Review (Mark Millar)
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Icon, $2.99 Story: Mark Millar Art: Steve McNiven Colous: Dave McCaig If the first issue of Mark Millar’s latest overhyped project provoked any level of thought from me it was this: Nemesis, the ghost-like villainous lead of this new series, is a complete and utter prick. And yes, I do appreciate that he’s supposed to…
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Punisher MAX vol. 6: Barracuda TPB Review
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Marvel, 2006 Story: Garth Ennis Art: Goran Parlov Colours: Giulia Brusco One consequence of Frank Castle’s hardline approach to vigilantism is that his enemies rarely get the opportunity to stage comebacks; usually because he’s deposited several dozen bullets in their skulls. While Garth Ennis may have introduced the Marvel Universe to the mountain of moronic…
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Comic Book Creators Announced For London MCM Expo May 2010
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in Comic NewsThe London MCM Expo has just announced a number of comic book creators that will be attending the Comic Village region of its 29-30th May 2010 show. From the press release: Stars returning to Excel this May include Ben Templesmith, Svetlana Chmakova, Jamie McKelvie and Kieron Gillen, while we’ll also be seeing a host of…
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Proxies of Fate by Matthew Moses Review
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in Book ReviewsProxies of Fate marks the first time I’ve been asked to review a purely prose novel, yet while Proxies isn’t a comic as such it’s ostensibly a classic comic book adventure under a literary veil, with equal quantities of 50s sci-fi thrown in for good measure. When an invasion by the Krush, a sadistic reptilian…