I’ll admit, when I saw the cover to Excalibur #17 way back in the days of your (when the January solicits dropped), I was immediately hyped for the issue, because… QUEEN ELIZABETH BRADDOCK the third of her name. That excitement only increased with the end of X of Swords, and the last issue’s last page…
I Wish I Could’ve Given Everyone Hugh Madden’s Treasure Island for Christmas
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: Hasbro’s Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms Drizzt & Guenhwyvar
It turns out that one of the benefits of being a world-famous toy company with a leading edge in the toy market and ownership of the world’s most successful tabletop role-playing game is that you get to just…make action figures from that game!
Archie Pubwatch: January 2021
Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for the month of January! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe, and here’s this month’s news! In this month’s Archie Comics Pubwatch, a new year dawns, which means a new season of Riverdale – and a new Archieverse comic from Rob Liefeld (yes, really)!
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?
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
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.
REVIEW: WandaVision Has a Wonderfully Weird Start
Wanda Maximoff and Vision are no ordinary couple, so how long can they keep up an act before their neighbors find out? WandaVision is the latest byproduct emerging from the Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline that follows the lives of Wanda Maximoff and Vision living in a suburban American neighborhood after the events of Avengers: Endgame.
