I closed my coverage of last issue saying that it would be nice to see these books be fun again, and while I don’t think this issue made any great strides, it’s nice to see X-Force with a sense of purpose.
REVIEW: Discover the Nonsense Advice of Nuns in Holy Diver
Rachelle Meyer delves into her childhood attending Catholic school in Texas and reflects on the lessons delivered.
Pokemon Adventures Vol. 8: One Journey Ends, Another Begins
Published since 1997, the Pokemon Adventures manga series is set in the world of Pokemon video games such as FireRed, LeafGreen, and my personal favorite Omega Ruby. While the series has always been written by Hidenori Kusaka, the first nine volumes of the series were drawn by Mato. Afterwards, every volume has been drawn by…
REVIEW: Wolverine #15 Is Violence As Art
Remember when I said I couldn’t wait for this issue of Wolverine? Haha.
REVIEW: Big Ethel Energy is Fun But Fails to Innovate
Ten years after having her heart broken by Jughead Jones in high school, Ethel Muggs is a successful journalist in NYC. Until she isn’t. Unsatisfied with her career and evicted from her apartment, Ethel returns to Riverdale in Webtoon’s Big Ethel Energy, its first collaboration with Archie Comics.
REVIEW: Spider-Man: Life Story Annual #1 – I Want Pictures of J. Jonah Jameson!
Providing a trenchant character portrait of J. Jonah Jameson, Spider-Man: Life Story Annual is deep and dark and beautifully written — but doesn’t feature much actual web-slinging from Peter Parker himself.
REVIEW: X-Men #3 – It’s Evolution, Baby
Terror falls from the sky in X-Men #3, but with the High Evolutionary involved, it’s not raining cats and dogs – it’s raining talking gorillas and cyborg elephants.
REVIEW: The Secrets of Chocolate Brings the Eye Candy But Spoils the Pot
Gourmand, comic artist, and writer Franckie Alarcon puts his love of food on the page with his “The Secrets of” series of graphic novels, which NBM has published and translated to English for the first time. But the native charm of Alarcon’s illustrations and his beautiful color work clashes with such high levels of hero…
DC PUBWATCH – September 2021 Edition
The leaves are turning and a wind of change is coming in the September edition of the DC Pubwatch. Oddly enough, Nice House on the Lake does not reclaim the top spot, though it is still a fantastic comic. No the top spot this month is going to Philip Kennedy Johnson and Daniel Sampere’s Action…
Vault Pubwatch: September 2021
In case you missed it, last month’s Cover Girl featured some naughty but very nice covers from the Vault Undressed NSFW variant cover series, along with an interview with Editor-in-Chief, Adrian Wassell.
REVIEW: Deadpool: Black, White and Blood #1 is a Gory Good Time
The first issue of this brand-new Deadpool miniseries — drawn and inked entirely in black and red — is a bloody, funny scream.