Welcome back to Rebirth Roundup. We have reached what is known in the comics industry as the dreaded “Fifth Week”; comics publishing typically operates on a four week schedule, with books shipping the same week every month. When a month has five Wednesdays though, like this one, we get a week where they don’t have…
The Tick: Boldly Venture to the Kingdom of the Kind
The Tick Ben Edlund, David Fury, Barry Josephson, Wally Pfister, Barry Sonnenfeld (producers) based on The Tick by Ben Edlund Peter Serafinowicz, Griffin Newman, Valorie Curry, Brendan Hines, Jackie Earle Haley, Yara Martinez, Scott Speiser, Michael Cerveris, Bryan Greenberg, Alan Tudyk (cast) August 25, 2017 (US) Hey. Heyyy. Remember that feeling when you’ve just found…
Long Lost: Dark and Hauntingly Beautiful Horror
Long Lost Matthew Erman (Story), Lisa Sterle (Art, cover) Scout Comics November 2017 Long Lost doesn’t look like a horror comic. What sticks in my memory is not the gruesome imagery, nor the dark robes of whatever mysterious figure is haunting sisters Piper and Frances, but the sisters themselves–their facial expressions, the amount of personality…
Thanks To Bill & Ted Save The Universe, Comics Are Fun Again
Claire & Rosie’s Excellent Experience Bill & Ted Save the Universe #3 Boom! Studios Brian Joines (Writer), Bachan (Artist), Alex Guimaraes (Colorist), Jim Campbell (Letterer) August 16, 2017 Rosie Comics can be fucking depressing. Whether it’s the fact that the same six men each have 30 books in Previews every month and yet you can’t…
Deconstructing Netflix’s Death Note
Death Note Adam Wingard (director), David Tattersall (cinematographer), Louis Cioffi (editor), Masi Oka, Roy Lee, Dan Lin, Jason Hoffs (producers), Charles Parlapanides, Vlas Parlapanides, Jeremy Slater (screenplay), adapted from Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata Nat Wolff, Margaret Qualley, Keith Stanfield, Paul Nakauchi, Shea Whigham, Willem Dafoe (cast) August 25, 2017 The American adaptation…
Alien Bounty Hunter
After my experience with Failsafe, I was not inclined to give Vault Comics a fair shake. It seems silly to let my read of one book affect another, but when a book like that sees print, it can cast doubt over the standards of the entire line—I feel the same way about Marvel’s continued employment…
DuckTales Is Back! Woo-Oo!
DuckTales Developed by Matt Youngberg and Francisco Angones David Tennant, Danny Pudi, Ben Schwartz, Bobby Moynihan, Kate Micucci, Beck Bennett, Toks Olagundoye, Tony Anselmo (cast) Adapted from Uncle Scrooge by Carl Barks and DuckTales (1987) by Jymn Magon August 12, 2017 (US) Disney XD premiered the 2017 re-imagining of Disney Afternoon favorite DuckTales on midnight…
Superstition in Space: Mary Turzillo’s Mars Girls
Mars Girls Mary Turzillo Apex Publishing June 2017 A review copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Even for people who know little about her previous work, known for its exploration of the potential of humanity on Mars, it is easy to fall into the society Mary Turzillo has created…
Rebirth Roundup: Everything from August 16
In this week’s Rebirth Roundup we have a sexy Riddler, three fascist futures, and a tribute befitting a King. There was no Scooby-Doo this week, so there will be less punning in this column. No Detective Comics this week either, but there will still be Spoilers. (Okay, I swear that’s the last time I use…
A Beautiful Thing Is Never Perfect: The Gallery of Unfinished Girls
The Gallery of Unfinished Girls Lauren Karcz HarperTeen July 25, 2017 HarperTeen provided a review copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. With a tagline like “Life is a work in progress,” winking up at you from the novel’s bold cover, you immediately know what you are in for. The book opens…
A Look at GOOK with Justin Chon, David So, and Simone Baker
From April 30 to May 4, 1992, Los Angeles was enraged. What finally set it off was a verdict. Four white LAPD officers were found not guilty of the severe beating of Rodney King, a black man, which was caught on tape. The riots that followed would be remembered 25 years later, and Justin Chon’s…
Sing a Song of Spiritus
Spiritus Tim Daniel (words & design), Michael Kennedy (art), Lauren Norby (letterer) The Vault, 2017 “This comic is like a song.” That’s something I say sometimes. I say it to mean I read this with my brain out of focus, like I saw the main strength of it with the part of my brain that processes…