Writers: Various Artist: John Romita Jr. Marvel Comics ACHIEVING PERFECT PERSPECTIVE and flowing figures captured in a few lines looks like magic coming to life. Such simple things often have an astonishing affect. On holiday, reading back issues from the stacks, I found I liked a couple Spider-Man issues with...
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Writer: Michael Fleisher Artist: Jim Aparo DC Comics, 1974-1975 Recently, your reviewer has been revisiting stories from his childhood, including Adventure Comics. Adventure Comics was a long-standing depository for a wide variety of minor DC Comics’ characters: Superboy, Supergirl, Starman, Plastic Man, Black Orchid, Aquaman, Deadman, and Dial H for...
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Script: TC Pescatore Art: Locogonzales Scout Comics 2023 YEAH THESE THINGS HAPPEN. Some dark night, you take a wrong turn down a long alley with no outlet, except way at the far end there’s a light and a low hum, if only you can reach it patching your way through...
Read MoreWriter – S.A. Rivera Artist – Jeff Kraven October 2019 This title’s blurb on the Amazon website: Dr. Alpha is one of the most dangerous supervillains in the galaxy. However, when another evil genius Molvion the Martian Mastermind returns with a massive armada, the superhero Glorious and his teammates must...
Read MoreWriter/Artist: Gess Ablaze 2020 FOUR THOUSAND YEARS AGO ancient cities of grand proportions flourished in Sumeria, Egypt, India, and China. In China, and in Palestine, blast furnaces made case-hardened iron millennia before engineers in the West introduced steel. Fine civilization as we know it today has vestiges far older than...
Read MoreWriter: Alex Paknadel Artist: John Lê Vault Comics, 2023 This science fiction title, conceptually to do with the interaction of artificial intelligence and ethics, with a dystopian landscape of ruined mechas thrown in for good measure, sadly nears its conclusion. We have previously reviewed the issues 1 through to 3...
Read MoreWriter, Matt Fraction Artist Elsa Charretier Image Comics, November 9, 2019 Something sinister lurks beneath the waters of this 2019 collected volume of the title November. It is written by Matt Fraction, a well-known and award-winning comic book writer, and with art by Elsa Charretier, who is well known for...
Read MoreManga grand master Leiji Matsumoto passed away on 13 February 2023. Mr Matsumoto was best known for epic science fiction manga sagas, including Galaxy Express 999, Queen Emeraldas and Space Battleship Yamato (published in the United States as Star Blazers). In its obituary, The Japan Times noted https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/02/20/national/leiji-matsumoto-obituary/that he started...
Read MoreWriter: Jeph Loeb Artists: Ed McGuinness and guest stars Marvel Comics, 2010 HERE A HULK THERE A HULK everywhere a hulk hulk. The collected HULK, VOLUME 6: WORLD WAR HULKS starts with ultra-cool renditions of Thor, the Thing, X-Men (and women), and Spider-Man beefed up on gamma rays, stronger and...
Read MoreWriter: G. Willow Wilson Artists: Marcio Takara, Arif Prianto DC Comics, June 2022 AN ALIEN GARDENER arriving to cultivate the planet would have to worry first about the human infestation. Even humans, supposedly rational, in a mass look like a flourishing plant species, a fungal bloom overpowering everything around it....
Read MoreWriter: Mike W. Barr Art: Jim Aparo DC Comics, July 1983 to April 1986 Wherever the Bat signal appears, dollar signs follow. American superhero character Batman, owned by DC Comics, is usually considered to be a fundamental element of the character grouping called Justice League of America. Having Batman on...
Read More“Gone Dark” Writer: Nicole MainesArtist: Skylar Patridge “Electric” Writer: C.S. PacatArtist: Scott Godlewski “Breakthrough” Writer: Frank BarbiereArtist: Sami Basri “Deus Ex Magicka” Writer: Leah WilliamsArtist: Marguerite Sauvage DC Comics, March 2023 With the world in chaos and Lazarus raining from the skies, the Earth’s protectors from Krypton are hit hard....
Read MoreWriter: Vesper Aeon Artist: Anna Foubert Independently published, 2022 We were recently contacted to review this science fiction comic, Black Mariah, and we were glad to do so. The story begins in a faraway space station called Storm Forge, described as the research and development headquarters of an arms manufacturer...
Read MoreCreator: Howard Chaykin First Comics, 1983-1988 The calendar has now slipped over to 2023, which gives us an immediate and overly enthusiastic excuse to look back to 1983 as an anniversary year. By any measure, 1983 was a remarkably creative year for American comic books. For those of us old...
Read MoreWriters: Eric Nyugen and Scott Burman Art: Eric Nguyen Dark Horse Comics, January 2023 An ancient prophecy foretold of an outsider that would save the peaceful village of Inoki from an unstoppable army–a man who would confuse the people at first with his unconventional ways, but lead them to the...
Read MoreJ.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman – creators Dave Stewart – colourist Todd Klein – letter Image Comics, 2022 In a bizarre future world that has forgotten its history, a reckless thief, Hope Redhood, holds the key to excavating its dark, strange past—if only she and her crew can...
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