Hugh Madden started cartooning his adaptation of Treasure Island on the eighteenth of March, early in the Irish Lockdown. As I write, he’s completed two hundred and twenty-seven pages, all free to read in one mega-thread on Twitter, and has covered everything up until Hawkins’ joining, under sufferance, Silver’s pirate gang now marooned on the…
DC PUBWATCH – January 2021 Edition
New year, and a slightly revised format! While I’m still going to grade everything that DC publishes in the month, I am cutting back on the capsule reviews a little bit, and just highlighting the books that I really think deserve it, for good or for bad. This month that includes The Dreaming: Waking Hours…
REVIEW: Cable’s Post-X of Swords Return Misses a Step
With X of Swords in the rearview, Cable has returned from a brief hiatus to check-in with its sword-wielding mutant teen lead. Cable’s spotlight moments in X of Swords proved to be some of the event’s most emotionally powerful, putting the cocky kid through the emotional wringer and leaving him with a newfound sense of…
REVIEW: X-Force #16: Unleash The Crack-On
Now that it’s solidly into its second year, can X-Force maintain its momentum with a new arc in the briny deep, or is it doomed to sink to the bottom?
Previously On Comics: Drink Your Water
Good morning. Have you had enough water? If you’re a coffee drinker, it’s a good idea to chase your coffee with some water. You’ll still get the caffeine effect but as it wears off you won’t be so dehydrated, and you’ll function better through the day. This goes for other forms of caffeine as well….
Last Week’s Episode: Meme the Bern 2021
Welp, we made it folks. We’re now past January 20th and well into 2021. The first three Wednesdays of this year have been quite a doozy: a coup, a second impeachment, and an inauguration. I refuse to ask what next week will bring, because I’ve watched enough movies to know that will just invite more…
Alfie Deserves an Eisner (or at Least a Fair Shot)
Alfie is a fantasy webcomic that follows Alpheanea “Alfie” Tolman, and her mother, Vera Tolman, as they experience separate journeys of sexual-self discovery. Written and drawn by the anonymous writer and artist Incase, Alfie has been running for six and half years, and is available to read for free online.
Slott Shaming: Thoughts on Fantastic Four #26 from a Trans Perspective
CW: Transphobia, Use of the term “trans-trender,” biphobia, homophobia
Vault Comics Pubwatch: January 2021
Though the news is light to start the new year, Vault Comics continues on a steady pace with their titles and many, many gorgeous variant covers, including this one from David Mack for Hollow Heart #1
REVIEW: Plunge is a Thoughtful Love-Letter to 1980s Sci-Fi Horror
The survey ship Derleth sank in April 1983, all hands lost. Forty years later, a coastal station picks up an automated distress call from the vessel: a recent tsunami has left the Derleth partly above sea level on an Alaskan reef, allowing its solar-powered systems to reactivate. The company that owns the ship hires salvage…
REVIEW: SWORD #2 is Raised Against the King
Following on the heels of the team retrieving a mysterious black jewel in the conclusion to SWORD #1, SWORD battles against Knull, the King in Black.
