Lucifer #1 Vertigo Comics, November 2018 Writer: Dan Watters Vertigo Comics has relaunched one of its heritage titles, Lucifer. This was always going to be a creatively difficult task to execute. With tradition comes expectations. In the case of the fussy readers of Lucifer, these are high. Legacy of the Devil This comic book character … Read more
Books of Magic #1 Vertigo Comics, November 2018 Writer: Kat Howard Back in 1990, fantasy writer Neil Gaiman was recruited by American comic book publisher DC Comics to run with a concept the parameters of which were to include all of DC Comics’ magic-based characters. There are a lot of them, but Mr Gaiman impressively … Read more
Hungry Ghosts #1 Berger Books, January 2018 Writers: Anthony Bourdain, Joel Rose Hungry Ghosts is a new horror anthology comic book series from Berger Books. It is notable in several respects. First, it is co-written by celebrity chef and TV personality Anthony Bourdain (and indeed many of the stories within the anthology bear a thematic … Read more
Savage Things #1
Vertigo Comics, March 2017
Writer: Justin Jordan
In the 1963 paper titled “The Threat to Kill,” psychiatrist J.M. Macdonald proposed the concept of a so-called “homicidal triad” – animal cruelty, pyromania, and persistent bedwetting – as directly linked to homicidal or sexual predatory behavior upon reaching a certain age.