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.
REVIEW: EXCALIBUR #14 – Fell To Pieces and I’m Still Falling
The competition begins in earnest in Excalibur #14 and immediately takes a wildly unexpected turn. After all, Otherworld is the realm of the Fae, and with them, nothing is ever as it seems.
REVIEW: Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem is The Comic That 2020 Needs
The national anthem. It played on the original Danger Days album. It’s written on the side of Mike Milligram’s car. I’ve heard it in classrooms and sports arenas my entire life. I’ve thought, at times, about what it represents in terms of the American consciousness. So has Gerard Way, and apparently, now it’s time to…
REVIEW: Marauders #15: Stabbing Saturnyne? Right in Front of My Salad?
It’s a bit unusual for a multi-title crossover event to continue its story in the very same title, but here we are, leaping into Marauders #15, right where we left off.
Previously on Comics: The Crushing Weight of Capitalism
Good morning! The pandemic is getting worse here in the States, because no one in charge values lives over property! Let’s talk about comics, I guess. WarnerMedia is laying off a few more people in addition to the several mentioned this past summer. 2020 has hit the comics industry particularly hard, and once again, those…
REVIEW: Phobos and Macroverse
Phobos by Jason Brubaker is a new premium comic on the mobile comics platform Macroverse, a platform whose unique selling point is the fact that instead of scrolling the reader taps to progress in their comics reading. Phobos follows the humorous and horrifying misadventures of a mad scientist and his wacky assistants in a vampire’s…
Titan Comics PUBWATCH: November 2020
In the year that seems like it will never end, we somehow have made it to November. (And through a contentious election week in the United States, which itself felt like a year!) This month, we take a look at a few finales (Adler and Horizon Zero Dawn), as well as the debut of Cutting…
REVIEW: The Low, Low Woods is a Haunting Tale of Strange Memories
Sitting in a cinema together, teenage friends El and Vee realise that neither of them has any memory of the film that has just ended. They soon find that Vee has unexplained mud on her shoes, no-one else went to see the film, and the sole staff member present is behaving oddly. Clearly, something has…
REVIEW: What Lies Beneath at Devil’s Reef in Miskatonic #1?
Placed in the Red Scare era of the early 20th century and dripping with classic sci-fi horror, Miskatonic #1 is a unique combination of American history, H.P. Lovecraft, and noir fiction from Aftershock Comics.
REVIEW: Dune: House Atreides: This is Fine
Dune: House Atreides starts with a FAAWHOOOM, introducing audiences to the intergenerational Herbert series. A primer for the major players in the upcoming Legendary movie adaptation Dune, this adapts Dune: House Atreides but it is not quite a tie-in comic.
