The Encyclopedia Lumberjanica will delight information-hungry young lady types, but doesn’t contain any new info at all about the comics themselves.
Remembering Charlee Jacob: The Myth of Falling
Published in 2014 by Sinister Grin Press, The Myth of Falling is both Charlee Jacob’s final collection of short stories and the single most personal work in her bibliography. In most of her collections, save for Up, Out of Cities that Blow Hot and Cold with its brief introductions for each story, Jacob allowed her…
REVIEW: HELLIONS #6 – Death Comes To Arakko
Last we left our intrepid band of miscreants, they were on their way to Arakko to steal the enemy’s swords before the competition began. But uh, the competition is well underway, so what happened? Well, that’s for Hellions #6 to explain.
REVIEW: The Dollhouse Family Has Dark Surprises in Every Corner
The story of The Dollhouse Family begins when a little girl named Alice inherits a gift from an obscure relative: an antique, lavishly-detailed dollhouse, complete with five little dolls in period costume. These toys offer Alice some escapism from her unhappy home environment, dominated as it is by her abusive father. And if she says…
Previously On Comics: Infinite Passes
Good morning! You know that phenomenon that started in gaming circles where assholes will call the cops on someone and report a crime so severe that the police will mobilize a SWAT team? If you don’t, it’s called “swatting.” Can we start referring to creators term-searching themselves on social media as “slotting?” No real reason,…
Welcome to the Church of DC’s FanDome
On August 22 and September 12 we experienced the majesty of DC FanDome, an event billed as a ‘first-of-its-kind virtual experience for DC superfans’. Sorry, no regular fans allowed! This is for the true believers. This is all about the power of the fan, or is it just a way to invoke a false sense…
Last Week’s Episode: 43 More Days Until 2021
Will next year be any better than this year? Maybe not. But at least there’s a sliver of hope that it’ll be different than this year. I’ll hold onto that hope for the next forty-three days. In the meantime, here’s a sampler of the last seven days of entertainment news.
REVIEW: Wolverine & X-Force Keep The Pace
I’ve been thinking a lot about pacing. Understanding pacing is critical to the telling of a good story; you have to understand intrinsically where to seed a twist, when to add a reveal. It’s the work of practice and care, and it’s been a topic of note since this event began; I’ve read a lot…
Vault Comics Pubwatch: November 2020
What’s New? A big deal for Vault Comics this month is the long awaited release of Brandon Sanderson’s The Dark One, a graphic novel, starring a young man who is haunted by visions of a dark fantastic world that turn out to be prophecies of a future where he becomes a fearsome destroyer. As any…
REVIEW: Champions #2 is a Muddled Metaphor
Champions #1 was “a lot of talk and not enough action.” Champions #2 isn’t much different, with a lot of dialogue and very few action scenes. Its biggest failure, however, is to not treat its teenage superheroes as superheroes, even as they fight to be recognized as such.
REVIEW: The Darkness #1: Appreciating Jackie Estacado 25 Years Later
Twenty-five years after his introduction in The Darkness #1, Jackie Estacado has learned a thing or two about being a good guy, but it’s taken a while to get there.