Just about anything with Emma Frost looking her diva best is going to make me pause, which is how I stumbled upon Chris Panda. Continue scrolling through the French comic book artist’s Twitter feed or website and you’ll find many more comic fashion gems — all of which will be available in the second volume of Kicking…
Attack On Titan Takes on FCBD With a Poignant New Story
Attack On Titan, FCBD 2017 Jody Houser (w), Emi Lennox (a), Paolo Rivera (cover) Kodansha May 6, 2017 Last year, Kodansha published a giant anthology of original Attack On Titan stories by Western creators. The series’ creator, Hajime Isayama, was as enthusiastic about the project as he is about his weird manga becoming such a…
VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action Review
VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a visual novel of a different breed. Set in the year 207X in a place called Glitch City, this title follows a month in the life of Jill, who works at a simple out of the way bar named VA-11 Hall-A, or Valhalla for short. The world around Jill…
Mary Kills People: Lifetime’s New Show Plays It Safe And Falls Short
When I first decided to review Mary Kills People, I was under the impression that it was just a show about a female serial killer starring Hannibal‘s Caroline Dhavernas, and I was very, very much about it. I have a soft spot for trashy horror and intricate narratives that delve into what drives women to…
Spill Night is a Promising New Horror Comic
Spill Night Scott Westerfeld (writer) and Alex Puvilland (illustrator) First Second May 6th, 2017 Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) comics are such silly things. Sure, it’s fun to see your local comic shop overflowing with people, all lined up to get free stuff from publishers that normally ask at least four bucks for a monthly…
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Pink Review
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Pink Brenden Fletcher, Kelly Thompson, Tini Howard (Writers), Daniele Di Nicuolo (Artist), Sarah Stern (Colors), Ed Dukeshire (Letters) BOOM Studios April 19, 2017 With nostalgia being a big hit lately and a brand new feature length movie gaining lots of attention, the Power Rangers franchise is becoming a household name once…
Billy Wilder’s One, Two, Three: “Adolf, who?”
Even the name “Cold War” brings to mind long, slow, depressed periods of time. Yet, Billy Wilder’s One, Two, Three offers constant humor and a spin on post-war Germany that I found mostly amusing, but often confusingly devoid of references to Nazis. When someone makes an uncomfortable parody of the U.S.’s current political state I hope…
Spindle Fire: Interesting Ideas, Poor and Problematic Execution
Spindle Fire Lexa Hillyer HarperCollins April 11 2017 A review copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Spindle Fire by Lexa Hillyer is described by Publisher HarperCollins as “enthralling” and a “wholly original reimagining of a classic faerie story.” In truth the book is a mishmash of YA tropes set…
Star Maid Games’ Kimmy’s Heart and Innovation Impress
Star Maid Games’ Kimmy is, on the surface, a visual novel about babysitting in the 1960s. Spend some time with it, however, and you’ll find that it’s about much more than babysitting, with lots more modern relevancy than its setting would have you believe.
Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution
Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution Julia Alekseyeva Microcosm Publishing January 10th, 2017 A review copy was provided from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Soviet Daughter is a graphic biography of a women named Lola, born in 1910 to a poor Jewish family outside of Kiev. She lived through the Bolshevik revolution, the civil war, the Stalinist…
Harlequin Violet & Harlequin Pink: Manga Romance Fusion!
Harlequin Ginger Blossom, published in English by Dark Horse, are successful Harlequin novels adapted for the Japanese comics market. Every volume says “written by [American Name]” and “art by [Japanese Name]” on its cover, which doesn’t seem entirely fair; adapting prose to a sequential graphic narrative is a job in itself and it goes uncredited thanks…
What Heroes these White Men Are: A Look Back at M.A.S.H.
In 1970, director Robert Altman released a film that, despite its blatant anti-war rhetoric and heavy criticism of Cold War attitudes, would win several awards including five Academy Award nominations and an Oscar for it’s screenplay, and a designation of “culturally significant” from the Library of Congress. M.A.S.H — and the TV show that followed…