Created by: Joe Satriani, Ned Evett Script: Tony Lee Pencils/Inks: Richard Friend Color: Carlos Cabrera Opus 2022 COSMIC SURFBOARD REQUIRED for this trip with galactic guitarist Joe Satriani, delightfully bursting into comic book culture as co-author of a five-issue dimensional romp CRYSTAL PLANET that pits the rhythmic music of life...
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Writer: Mattson Tomlin Artist: Andrea Sorrentino DC Comics, 2021 If we had to choose the best superhero comic book so far this decade, it must be Batman: The Imposter. The story has been issued under American superhero comic publisher DC Comics’ Black Label imprint. As we have previously discussed, the...
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Writer: Danny Baram Artist: Matt Shults All-New All-Awesome Comics, 2023 THE KID LIVES in a bad neighborhood. He ignores it, best he can. Work keeps him too busy to notice much. He figures he needs a girlfriend to fill his scant spare time. Gets an online date with a girl...
Read MoreCreated by George Wylesol Avery Hill 2023 BASEMENT HOSPITAL CORRIDORS go on for fifty, one hundred, maybe more miles and miles of corridors, with one person at night on duty centered in a small office where he has a desk and a computer, surrounded by winding emptiness. This is the...
Read MoreCreator: Steven Christie Independently published, 2018 Once upon a time, your reviewer completed an Arts degree, and was required to read Ways of Seeing. This text was written by John Berger in 1972. It was concerned with how elitism and misogyny pervades the arts and advertising. But for impressionable undergraduates,...
Read MoreAuthor: H.P. Lovecraft Artist (and adaption by) I.N.J. Culbard Self Made Hero, 2012 Contemporary fascination with the works of American horror writer H.P. Lovecraft and his peers seems to have no end, despite his brand of horror now being almost a century old. Your critic was meandering through a gift...
Read MoreWriter: J. Michael Straczynski Artist: Jesus Saiz Marvel Comics, November 2023 For non-American readers, buying an issue of Captain America can be akin to taking a sip from a stranger’s teacup. Will it be jingoistic in a way which is mostly alien to the foreign audience? The red-white-and-blue clad superhero...
Read MoreCreator: Ben Juers Glom Press, February 2021 Political pollsters, those people who call on the phone, stop people in the street, or knock on doors, must be amongst that category of the career-depressed that include patent attorneys and change management consultants. Those sorts of professionals wonder how it is that...
Read MoreWriter: David Pepose Artist: Alex Cormack Mad Cave, October 2023 David Pepose, we suppose, is best known to American comic book readers from his entertaining superhero time travelling adventure on Savage Avengers for Marvel Comics, the first issue of which we reviewed back in May 2022: Savage Avengers #1 (Review)...
Read MoreWriter: Steve Orlando Artist: Ivan Shavrin Heavy Metal, 2022 FINALLY A REAL GODDESS appears. She is one of seven daughters of Atlas scattered “all of time ago” by invading Kaos on the day Atlas flinched (or shrugged), “drawing blood before the dew had dried on creation.” Good start. An interstellar...
Read MoreWriter: Alan Grant Artists: Val Semeiks, Denis Rodier DC Comics, 1990 SAYING THE TRUTH will set you free is horribly false when you glimpse a demon face sneer back at you through the looking glass. A face from the past stalks you, the truth of what is done and etched...
Read MoreWriter: Brian Wood Artist: Ryan Kelly Vertigo Comics, 2011 REAL LIFE IN BLACK AND WHITE feels dreary when the ink droops down the page, making everything look a little tired, worn, emptied by degrees, so only the stain remains. This was the feeling in the slice-of-life drama LOCAL (2006), by...
Read MoreWriter: Louise Simonson Art: Bernard Chang Marvel Comics, 2023 Jean Grey is dead, again, and she is not particularly surprised about it. The long-standing character, a charter member of Marvel Comics’ headline mutant title Uncanny X-Men and its numerous spawn, is probably the record holder for death and revival even...
Read MoreWriter/Artist: Steve Mannion Asylum Press 2023 THE AGE OF GIRL POWER is upon us. Questing girls and women out to be heroines swarm the media waves, often making good alternatives to standard superhero themes, though often these heroines have awesome powers of their own. This is not the case for...
Read MoreCreator: Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 2016-2023 Usually, when a purportedly serious website such as this one talks about Dog Man, the focus is on its enormous commercial success, and the sheer brilliance in finding and filling a niche with a simple idea. This review has a more profound take on what...
Read MoreWriter / artist: Frank Miller DC Comics, 1983-1984 Critiquing this comic brings your reviewer a deep sense of nostalgia: being baffled by the cost and mysterious subject matter of the first issue sitting in a spinner rack, hesitatingly pulling it out of the rack for a quick flick, and being...
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