Christmas 365 #2 Review – Christmas 365 takes its toll on the Rockwell’s as mounting bills, cookie addictions, and radioactive eggnog threaten to bring their year-long yuletide experiment to an end. Faced with a grim reality, and a growing presence on social media, Peter must do what’s best for his family… and turn their home into a theme park for weirdos from the internet. Continue reading Christmas 365 #2 Review
Welcome To The Maynard #2 Review – Pip settles into her new job as bellhop and trainee house detective at the Maynard Hotel (for Wizards, Mages, and Otherworldly Beings)… despite the job coming with some unsettling challenges. If it isn’t the ongoing hunt for hotel thief, or the mage who’s checked in with a dark and tragic goal. Oh, and let’s not forget Pip’s girlfriend’s suspicions with all the secrets and unanswered questions that Pip simply can’t tell her. Yes, Pip has a lot on her hands, for sure, including that the thief’s ultimate goal isn’t mere profit, but rather the death of someone working or staying at the Maynard Hotel! Continue reading Welcome To The Maynard #2 Review
The Ambassadors Library Edition HC Review – Millarworld and Dark Horse Comics are proud to present the bestselling superhero thriller in a deluxe, oversized hardcover format. You’ve cracked the superhuman mystery and can give superpowers to six different people around the world. Who do you choose? When the superhuman genome is cracked, the billionaire scientist responsible announces she will turn six ordinary people into superheroes. This launches a worldwide competition to determine who will join this team of superhumans. The world’s greatest and most ambitious superhero comic needs the world’s greatest comic book artists. Step forward Frank Quitely, Travis Charest, Olivier Coipel and an international line-up of superstars presented in hardcover for the first time. Collects The Ambassadors #1-6. Continue reading The Ambassadors Library Edition HC Review
Christmas 365 #1 Review – From creators Mikey Way (My Chemical Romance) and Jonathan Rivera (Cave Carson has an Interstellar Eye) comes the most bizarre holiday comic yet! The holidays weren’t always so tough for Peter Rockwell and his family, but a tragic and challenging year finds them stressed out and drifting apart when they should be pulling together. After accepting the wisdom of a Santa Claus at his local mall, Peter hatches a plan to give his family the best year ever, one Christmas at a time! Continue reading Christmas 365 #1 Review
Welcome To The Maynard #1 Review – From the celebrated creators behind Starman and Super Friends comes this new magical tale of crime and theft in the world of bourgeoise hospitality. “Welcome To the Maynard!” This is a hotel unlike any other. A place where every guest and staff member has magic in their veins. This is a hotel for magicians, witches, and otherworldly beings. This is also where Phillipa (Pip) Dale begins her first day as the hotel’s new bellhop (and trainee house detective) and where she is immediately thrust into a mystery involving an enchanted hotel theft whose daring thefts are deadly. This hotel is a magical, wonderful, dangerous place… so please come in and stay a while. Continue reading Welcome To The Maynard #1 Review
Groo: Minstrel Melodies #3 Review – Groo’s foolishness is endless, so here are more entertaining verses from the traveling minstrel who’s been delighting (and sometimes disturbing) folks across the land with tales of the bumbling barbarian! Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier deliver another hilarious Groo adventure, with exquisite colors by Carrie Strachan and Eisner Award-winning lettering work by Stan Sakai. Continue reading Groo: Minstrel Melodies #3 Review
Patra #1 Review – From the celebrated creators behind Starman and The Flash comes this new supernatural series about slasher monsters, mad scientists, and cult movie-inspired horror. A young girl named Patra wakes up with no memory of her past. All she knows is that a big knife and a horrific mask appear whenever she’s in danger. Oh, that, and a deranged killer, in the tradition of 1980s slasher films, who is slaughtering families in a small mid-western town, and wants to make Patra his victim too. Join us for a new series as one brave little girl faces both monstrous dangers and mysterious secrets in this homage to the classic horror movies of yore. Continue reading Patra #1 Review
Space Usagi: White Star Rising #1 Review – Taking place directly after the Space Usagi: Death and Honor arc, Stan Sakai’s second Space Usagi series sees Miyamoto Usagi continuing to defend the Shirohoshi clan in the far future from scheming rivals, the Kajitori. New friends, like space pirate Rhogen, and new enemies, led by Empress Amateh, are introduced, and this miniseries will be newly colored by longtime collaborator Emi Fujii! Continue reading Space Usagi: White Star Rising #1 Review
Groo: Minstrel Melodies #2 Review – The minstrel and his daughter continue to weave tales of Groo across the land-both celebrating his unique idiocy and warning others of his deadly deeds! Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier deliver another hilarious Groo adventure, with exquisite colors by Carrie Strachan and Eisner Award-winning lettering work by Stan Sakai!
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Helen Of Wyndhorn #5 Review – In this penultimate issue, Helen’s frustrations continue to exacerbate as her drinking worsens and her longing for the ways of the other fantasy world continue to plague the house of Wyndhorn. Continue reading Helen Of Wyndhorn #5 Review
Helen Of Wyndhorn #4 Review – Helen and Barnabus continue their adventures passing between the other world and Wyndhorn House as she begins to learn the skills of a warrior from her adventurous relative. From the Eisner Award-winning creative team of Supergirl: Woman to Tomorrow, the upcoming film helmed by director James Gunn. Continue reading Helen Of Wyndhorn #4 Review
Gilt Frame #1 Review – A classic whodunit murder mystery that spans the globe from Paris to Hawaii to Montenegro as we hustle to keep up with the most unlikely murder-solving duo in the history of murder-solvers. Sam, who is in his early twenties, is an orphan, taken in when he was younger by his well-off Aunt Merry who has an eccentric taste for antiques and travel. Together, Sam and Merry have solved some of the most notorious murders in the world. And true to form, their Parisian vacation is cut short when they stumble upon a murder scene so bizarre that only a raging psychopath could have produced it. But to solve the crime, they have to wrestle with jewel thieves, art forgers, gun-runners, a lost puppy, and a master French detective who may just solve the crime before they do. Continue reading Gilt Frame #1 Review
Usagi Yojimbo: The Crow #5 Review – The conclusion of “The Crow” story arc features an all-out battle between the bounty hunters and the bandits! Though greatly outnumbered, Usagi and the bounty hunters are confident they can even the odds by taking the criminals by surprise. Their plans go awry, however, and the bandit chief, Jimmu, abandons his men to make his escape. One goes after him, but they’re surprised by an unexpected attack! Continue reading Usagi Yojimbo: The Crow #5 Review
Paranoid Gardens #2 Review – As Loo continues to be plagued by mysterious dark visions, she pushes forward to tend to the care center patients while discovering some of the more murky plans behind other staff members. Continue reading Paranoid Gardens #2 Review
Grendel: Devil’s Crucible – Defiance #2 Review – On a treacherous future Earth that has turned against all followers of Grendel, Grendel Prime finds two rare allies. He gets a short history lesson on his now-hostile home world before encountering a group working for the Necro-Lords, who want him captured. Featuring a standard cover by Matt Wagner and Brennan Wagner and a variant cover by Antonio Fuso and Brennan Wagner! Continue reading Grendel: Devil’s Crucible – Defiance #2 Review
Masters of the Universe: Revolution #3 Review – All is revealed! Hordak’s young apprentice, against the master’s orders, returns to his home world for what promises to be a grisly family reunion. But the plan abruptly changes when he uncovers shocking new information that brings him face-to-face with the powerful dark force that’s been guiding both he and Hordak toward their doom! Do either of them have enough strength to fight it? And, even if they escape the dreaded FRIGHT ZONE, what new horrors might they have unleashed? Continue reading Masters of the Universe: Revolution #3 Review
Usagi Yojimbo: The Crow #4 Review – Usagi, Gen, and Stray Dog have discovered where the rival bounty hunter group-led by the ruthless Inuyoshi-is holding Yukichi hostage. The rescue attempt leads to a huge confrontation, but they receive news that may force the vicious enemies to form an uneasy alliance. Continue reading Usagi Yojimbo: The Crow #4 Review
Barfly #1 Review – Spinning out of the world of the hit Minor Threats superhero series by Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum, and Scott Hepburn comes a new tale of costumed underdogs-featuring a low-level henchman without a leader to serve. The Lower Lair bar is home to all sorts of supervillains, lowlifes, and scumbags… but only one of them has to puke digestive fluids onto his food to eat. $#!%eater, the humanoid mutant fly is a loser, a lifelong minion who lives to serve his criminal master. But what happens to a henchman when he no longer has anyone left to hench for? Comic book legends Kyle Starks and Ryan Browne present the heartwarming, feel good, coming-of-age story about an insect monster-man searching for his identity amongst the criminal underworld of Twilight City. Continue reading Barfly #1 Review
Helen Of Wyndhorn #3 Review – Helen returns to the grounds of Wyndhorn House from what appears to have been from a fantastical warrior paradise. Was what she experienced real or from the mind of her late father who penned stories of a barbaric adventurer in a bizarre land. Continue reading Helen Of Wyndhorn #3 Review
Usagi Yojimbo: The Crow #3 Review – The bandit Jimmu and his band attack a merchant caravan, as observed by some bounty hunters who are unprepared for the size of Jimmu’s army. The bounty hunters’ leader has captured Yukichi and is holding him hostage until Usagi, Gen, and Stray Dog leave the area. Usagi is shocked when he learns the identity of the leader. Continue reading Usagi Yojimbo: The Crow #3 Review
