Giga #1 steams with the tension of a world marred by violence and war. The wars have been fought for so long, people can’t remember exactly how they started and can’t imagine what it’d be like to have them stop. I wasn’t sure a mech-style Gundam-esque comic was going to my thing but it is…
REVIEW: Moriarty the Patriot is SO MUCH
Blond pretty boy Moriarty haunts my nightmares. Moriarty the Patriot is a manga series written by Ryōsuke Takeuchi and illustrated by Hikaru Miyoshi as a prequel to the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, from the perspective of Sherlock Holmes’s nemesis Professor Moriarty. Though there are twelve volumes published in Japan, the first…
REVIEW: Transformers/Back to the Future #1 Assembles And Rolls Out With Some Strange Bedfellows
Transformers/Back to the Future#1 is a festival of great art, fun character work and good writing. It manages to balance light and dark with surprising deftness.
Review: Star Trek Discovery’s “Far From Home,” AKA Gays in Space
Last week’s episode caught viewers up on Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and introduced new character Booker (David Ajala), so naturally this week caught us up on the rest of the crew and the ship Discovery itself.
REVIEW: Wild West: #1 Calamity Jane Rolls Into Town
Wild West Vol. 1: Calamity Jane opens into a violent and lawless world set in the Old West, where we follow well-known historical figures Martha Cannary and James Hickock, better known as American folk heroes under the names Calamity Jane and Wild Bill respectively. Wild West offers a retelling of their story, how they met,…
Vampires on the Margins: Women’s Perspectives
Modern vampire fiction has been shaped in large part by female authors: Anne Rice, Charlaine Harris, Nancy Collins, Laurell K. Hamilton, Stephenie Meyer and others each played a part in establishing vampire literature as the thriving commercial genre that it is today. In terms of both authorship and readership, it is safe to say that…
Previously on Comics: Time is a Flat Circle
Hello and welcome to another edition of Previously on Comics! I am your host, Kate, and this week is one of those weeks where it seems like not much is happening in the world of comics, but also a lot is happening. I took September off, but in August I wrote about Bloodbath Monday at…
Discover Hope in The Sacrifice of Darkness
If 2020 teaches us anything, it is to find hope in darkness. That hope comes in many forms, even from the past. Roxane Gay’s 2013 short story “We Are the Sacrifice of Darkness” is a story of a world plunged into literal perpetual darkness and one family’s hopes to overcome it. Now a graphic novel…
REVIEW: X-Men #13: Stronger Than Yesterday
Nothing stays dead on Krakoa. Not mutants, certainly. And not the past, either, as Apocalypse has so painfully learned. You can bury it in the heart of a pyramid or lock it away in a golden box, but the past always comes back, no matter what you do. So, open the box. Put on the…
Last Week’s Episode: Chris Pratt is Still the Absolute Worst Chris
For a year that has seen very few superheroes make it to the screen there is plenty of superhero news brewing this week. Prepare yourself as anything you get excited about will be instantly ruined by the behavior of one member of the MCU.
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Dogs Days of Humanoids
Originally published in France by La Boîte à Bulles, Humanoids brings Dog Days across the shores on October 27. Written by Cyprien Mathieu and Rémy Benjamin and featuring art by Olivier Perret, Dog Days turns a relaxing summer vacation into a deepening mystery…
Mariah McCourt Shares Recipes for Disaster and Tea Time in Ash & Thorn Volume 1
If you’ve been following our Cook Your Comics series, you know that we are smitten with Ash & Thorn, the new series from AHOY Comics. In the first volume, available in comic stores now and in bookstores next week, writer Mariah McCourt introduces us to Lottie Thorn and her trainer, Lady Peruvia Ashlington-Voss. Unlike your…