World Comic Book Review

26th April 2024

Bazza the Barbarian Bogan: Australian Alien Invasion (review)

Created by Sorab Del Rio and Don Ticchio Artist: Emerson Dimaya Colourist: Simon A Wright Silver Fox Comics, 2017 Your reviewer worked as an English language teacher in Neyagawa, Osaka in 1996 to early 1997. The school happened to be filled with other Australians, and one lonely Nebraskan named Paul. Suffering the idioms, the accents, and … Read more

Heretics of the Fathomless Realms (review)—“Hit the space bar”

Co-Creators Writer: Dorian Alexander, Artist: Jeremy Raab Colorist: Gabriel Fischer Weird Trails 2021-2022 THE DANDY FOP expects admiration, and here they come in a pair. The two heretic heroes in HERETICS OF THE FATHOMLESS REALMS look like avatars for co-creators Dorian Alexander and Jeremy Raab, writer and artist, calling themselves the Lost and the Mad, … Read more

The Rite #1 (review)

Writer: Aaron J. McGrath Artist: Hernan Gonzalez Colourist: Damian Felitte Letter: Nicholas Lepka December, 2021 The Rite #1 is an independent horror title released in December 2021. Here is the shortish promotional blurb from Amazon’s site: This single-issue story follows three hikers seeking adventure on a backpacking trip but finding something much darker lurking in … Read more

Monroe and Murphy #1 (review) —“He needs a heart to hang onto”

Writer: Stephen Peeples Art: Nicolò Arcuti Independent, 2022 FRIENDS ARE SOMETIMES a big mystery, like a different species. Sometimes in a floating world they actually are a different species. The first issue of newly released independent strip MONROE & MURPHY gives us a fox boss, a tiger husband, a koala sidekick, and other creatures surrounding … Read more