House of El: The Shadow Threat had me hooked almost immediately, and if you want to see likable young adults try to save their society, this is the tightly plotted, fast-paced, and lushly illustrated book for you.
Titan Comics PUBWATCH: January 2021
What a year it’s been — and we’re only two weeks into it. But as my mother reminds me, “where there is life, there is hope.” And where there are comics, with heroes that stand up for good over evil, there will always be hope. This month, we take a look at the second issues…
WandaVision: What’s the Source?
Back in September, two trailers came out on the same day, and I tweeted, “Wanda’s thinking of ending things.” It’s a joke that works because in later years Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, has been given tremendous reality-adjustment abilities (she could end anything in a blink, including the Mutant Menace), and because the glitchy visuals,…
REVIEW: The Picture of Everything Else Delivers Murder & Intrigue With A Wildean Flare
I’m always curious to hear about unique and interesting concepts for new comic books, and I have to admit that Vault Comics’ The Picture of Everything Else did immediately catch my eye for that reason. The very first time I read the title of this book, it stood out to me, and I thought to…
REVIEW: Star Wars: The High Republic #1 Introduces Readers to a New Era
In Star Wars: The High Republic #1, Padawan Keeve Trennis begins her trials to become a Jedi Knight, but on a quiet planet in the Outer Rim, Keeve gets much more than she bargained for. When lives are at stake, a Jedi has only one choice—protect the helpless. But is this the start of something…
Find Modern Peace with Pipette and Dudley Charming Dog Adventure Comics
A comic I return to again and again is Baby Bun, by Yoyo, a mini-mini mini comic I picked up — for 50p — in passing on my way out of OK True Believers in its first or second year. It’s a panel per page sequence of what appears to be a large ice cube…
REVIEW: I Read Good Neighbors So You Don’t Have To
Good Neighbors dissects one summer when the residents of Maple Street implode, hunting down a potentially fabricated boogeyman. All against the backdrop of an unbearable heatwave, the appearance of a massive sinkhole, and the recovery of a body. The story pits the Wildes—a down-and-out family from Brooklyn who are new to Maple Street and don’t…
REVIEW: Hellions #8 – Fruit of the Poisoned Tree
Hello from your Hellions pinch-hitter! This was not a title I had previously been reading (sorry to Alex Summers fans) but I’m pleased I nabbed this — despite being made up of characters I’d previously felt pretty neutral about, I’m 100% invested now.
REVIEW: X-Factor #6 – Death and Bodies
Picking up from the final pages of issue #5, when the New X-Men were all brought back and a death scream filled the air, X-Factor now seeks to find out what caused Teresa Cassidy’s death.
Previously On Comics: Don’t Be A Fucking Nazi
I literally do not know how to address the events of the last week. It would be disingenuous of me not to even mention that I along with a large portion of the world watched white supremacists attempt a coup in real time, live on tv. Or that I did it while on my second…
The Most Important Motherhood Story In Comics Happened Last Year (And You Probably Missed It)
Let’s face it: comics have never been a beacon of good parenting. Whether they’re sending their kids into the future to escape a techno-organic virus or just trying to remember they have kids at all, superheroes making time to be even moderately acceptable parents is much more the exception than the rule. This is especially…
