Princess Ugg #2 Ted Naifeh Oni Press Princess Ugg #2 finds Ülga facing the biggest trial of her life. She’s faced giants, war, terrible beasties, but what can she do when challenged with – posture lessons? This issue focuses on the loneliness Ülga feels as she struggles with the daily lessons that the other princesses…
Human After All: Representation of People in IDW’s Transformers
As demonstrated in my last piece, the Cybertronians in the IDW Transformers books aren’t too different from people from the good old planet Earth. They have politics, they have religion- just as the Transformers are effectively human beings in metal skin, their society is ours coated in chrome allegory.
Tim & Harper Will They Or Won’t They: Batman Eternal Check In #12-13
Here we are again, same Bat-time, same Bat-channel. It’s another Batman Eternal Bi-Weekly Check In. For those of you just tuning in, Batman Eternal is the year-long, weekly comic book event being run to celebrate Batman’s 75th Anniversary. Gotham is falling to pieces, Gordon has been arrested, the new commissioner refuses to work with ‘costumes’,…
Football Comics! Bad Machinery V.1
Bad Machinery Volume One: The Case of the Team Spirit. Football! A comic with football in it. The World Cup’s still on! Bad Machinery is a comic from John Allison, who should be hailed even more loudly than he already is (I mean, I assume that he is? I take it for granted) for the wicked,…
Review: The Legend of Bold Riley
The Legend of Bold Riley Leia Weathington Leia Weathington, Marco Aidala, Vanessa Gillings, Kelly McClellan, Konstantin Pogorelov and Jason Thompson Northwest Press Last week, one of my very favorite shows of all time – Nickelodeon’s The Legend of Korra – returned to the airways for its third season. But for those who, like me, are…
Crime Comic Review: Amy Devlin, Lost and Found
Amy Devlin, Lost and Found Christina Weir (W) Nunzio DeFilippis (W) T J Kirsch (A) Oni Press I mentioned on our twitter that despite my love of prose and television crime stories, I don’t feel much pull from graphic crime fiction. I don’t know if my lack of interest is real, I don’t know if…
Short & Sweet: Archie, Uncanny X-Men, Silver Surfer, and More!
Trees #1 Writer: Warren Ellis Artist: Jason Howard Image Comics It almost goes without saying that we are in a glorious heyday of great science fiction comics with books like Saga, Manhattan Projects, and East of West on the stands. Now Warren Ellis has thrown his hat in the mix with Trees and an opening…
Batman Eternal Check In: Issues #10-11
Originally, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to write about the year long event that is Batman Eternal. I have been burned by DC events in the past (*cough* Villains Month *cough*) But the promise of Stephanie Brown and a superstar creative team (Snyder! Fawkes! Layman! Seeley!) convinced me to check out the first issue….
Review: Turtles in Time #1
Turtles in Time Paul Allor (W) Erik Burnham (W) Ross Campbell (A) IDW Publishing Turtles in Time #1 is everything that turtle fans adore about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: action-packed fight scenes, sassy Turtle one-liners, and dinosaur punching. The first issue of the mini-series wastes no time throwing the Turtles and readers alike into an…
Retro Review: Marvels
I’ve always loved Alex Ross. If ever I’m rich there’s a few things I’ll do: buy cool flats in London, Paris, New York, and Toronto, donate large sums of money to worthwhile causes and churches, attempt to visit fifty-two countries in a year, and buy a tonne of Alex Ross artwork. The privilege of seeing a…
Review: Fast Friends (NSFW)
Fast Friends Writer: Dale Lazarov Artist: Michael Broderick Dale Lazarov bills his work as “smart, wholesome, gay comics smut,” and that it is. Fast Friends, like Sticky and Manly is a wordless, erotic comic that balances poignant slice of life narrative with marathon sex.
The Chimpanzee Complex Reviewed: Intrigue, Love, & Rockets
The Chimpanzee Complex, volume 1: Paradox Richard Marazano & Jean-Michel Ponzio Cinebook Here’s a closer look at Helen Friedman, Floridian, NASA’s best astronaut in 2035, and protagonist of The Chimpanzee Complex, a bande-dessinee written by Richard Marazano, illustrated by Jean-Michel Ponzio, and published by Dargaud (French) before Cinebook (English): This is a space comic: a comic about astronauts, and exploration, and mystery,…