Bear Pirate Viking Queen #1 Review

Bear Pirate Viking Queen #1 Review – MINISERIES PREMIERE – From SEAN LEWIS (KING SPAWN) comes a blood-splattered story of conquest. Bears. Pirates. Vikings. And Queens-all battling for their claim to determine what the world will become.
Rendered in stunning watercolor by artist JONATHAN MARKS BARRAVECCHIA, it’s a gorgeous story of the blood spilled to make countries. And what’s cooler than bears, pirates, vikings, and queens???
With 72 stunning pages, it’s sure to be one of the most beautiful and thought-provoking books of the year. Continue reading Bear Pirate Viking Queen #1 Review

Aint No Grave #1 Review

Aint No Grave #1 Review – Eisner Award-winning writer SKOTTIE YOUNG and Eisner Award-nominated artist JORGE CORONA, the team behind the hit series MIDDLEWEST and THE ME YOU LOVE IN THE DARK, are back together with an all-new miniseries, AIN’T NO GRAVE! This Unforgiven-style journey is an original macabre Western/fantasy tale for mature readers, told through a Guillermo Del Toro-esque lens.
Ryder put her violent past behind her when she fell in love and became a mother. But that was before she learned it was all going to be taken away. Now she’ll have to pick up her guns once again and ride to kill the one who’s behind the threat. Which just happens to be Death.
The genre-bending adventure begins in this DOUBLE-SIZED FIRST ISSUE, with forty pages of story and no ads! Continue reading Aint No Grave #1 Review

Napalm Lullaby #2 Review

Napalm Lullaby #2 Review – The right thing to do is never the easy thing, and convincing others to help you is even harder. An empath and a dream spinner have 24 hours to break into the forbidden temple dome city of the Magnificent Leader to rescue the only person who can save the world and kill the god who is hell-bent on destroying it. Continue reading Napalm Lullaby #2 Review

Transformers #7 Review

Transformers #7 Review – WHO WILL LEAD THE DECEPTICONS? After last issue’s shocking ending, Starscream and Soundwave battle for leadership-and the result will change the Decepticons forever. And the Autobots learn they may have more allies than they imagined…
JORGE CORONA joins DANIEL WARREN JOHNSON to begin the Energon Universe story that will have everyone talking! Continue reading Transformers #7 Review

Mortal Terror #3 Review

Mortal Terror #3 Review – Vampires Jonathan Harker, Lucy Westenra, and Mina Murray live in underground London, trying to keep the undead city safe from the rumored mortals above who seek to give them life, only to kill them. The vampires find themselves up against more than just the deadly light of the sun when a perilous journey into the city above takes a fatal turn. Continue reading Mortal Terror #3 Review

Rook Exodus #1 Review

Rook Exodus #1 Review – GEOFF JOHNS and JASON FABOK, the celebrated team behind the smash hit Batman: Three Jokers, reunite for an all-new science fiction series! Hundreds of years from now, the man known as Rook was once a simple farmer who fled the crumbling Earth for a new life on the planet Exodus; a terraformed planet where all of nature, including its imported animal population, was completely controlled by humans called Wardens. But when Exodus’s world engine failed, the Wardens’ power fell into the wrong hands, creating chaos and mass evacuation… for those who could afford it. The rest, like Rook, must scavenge for an escape vessel as the war for control of what’s left of Exodus begins. Continue reading Rook Exodus #1 Review

Local Man: Bad Girls #1 Review

Local Man: Bad Girls #1 Review – Inga Johanning, Local Man’ ex-girlfriend and current archenemy, is on the run. Her journey will bring her face-to-face with her past, her crimes, and two of the other badass ladies in the Local Man Universe-
Neon peers through the pink fog to reveal her dark, violent origin.
Local Man: Bad Girls #1 Review – Frightside encounters Crossjack and tests the selfishness in his heart. A perfect jumping-on point for new readers and a must-have for fans who love-and especially those who hate-the long-gone days of blood-splattered breasts, big blades, and bad girls. Features an epic triptych cover series by TIM SEELEY & BRIAN REBER. Continue reading Local Man: Bad Girls #1 Review

The Last Mermaid #1 Review

The Last Mermaid #1 Review – Series Premiere. A lone mermaid roams an endless wasteland on a quest beyond reason. To press ever onward, she must survive the interminable stretches between tiny pockets of water, the roaming bands of cybernetic cannibals, and the fearsome mutant beasts. What propels her forward to take such a risk? Continue reading The Last Mermaid #1 Review

The One Hand #1 Review

The One Hand #1 Review – MINISERIES PREMIERE – Neo Novena detective ARI NASSER is about to retire with an enviable record, until a brutal murder occurs, bearing all the hallmarks of the “One Hand Killer”…which should be impossible, since Ari already put him away not once, but twice in the years before.

What follows is a deadly cat-and-mouse game as Ari pursues his quarry down the rain-soaked streets of Neo Novena. Ari will stop at nothing to unravel the secrets and ciphers of this case, but each revelation only leads further into the dark heart of his future-metropolis and Ari’s own beleaguered soul.

Grippingly written by award-winning writer RAM V (The Many Deaths of Laila Starr, Swamp Thing) with hauntingly atmospheric art and covers by LAURENCE CAMPBELL (Old Haunts, BPRD: Hell on Earth) and LEE LOUGHRIDGE (DEADLY CLASS), ONE HAND is a miniseries that will keep you guessing until the very end.

For fans of Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell, Black Mirror. Continue reading The One Hand #1 Review

W0rldtr33 #7 Review

Worldtr33 #7 Review – Agent Silk continues trying to find the woman who murdered her partner as Ellison Lane confronts his sisters in a secluded cabin in the wilderness in Worldtr33 #7. This issue gives many of the vast array of characters a few moments to shine as it also flashes back to show the origins of Gabriel Winter’s team and their first encounter with the malevolent Undernet, an extra-dimensional layer of the internet that could soon cause the end of the world. Continue reading W0rldtr33 #7 Review

Local Man #9 Review

Local Man #9 Review – Jack knows it all. He’s a real damn detective, not just a washed up 90s super-hero. But will he be able to accept a truth that will change the way he thinks about himself, his powers, his family, and the crappy town he’s chosen to protect? More importantly, will he able to escape the literal tidal wave rolling down Main Street? Continue reading Local Man #9 Review

Ghost Machine #1 Review

Ghost Machine #1 Review – A Groundbreaking New Era for Comics, Characters, and Creators Begins Here! From the powerhouse creative collective that is Ghost Machine comes an extra-sized 48-page special introducing its all-new shared universes of strange, fun, and action-packed characters: Geiger! Redcoat! Rook! The Rocketfellers! And many, many more! What ties Geiger, Redcoat, Widow X, and the other mysterious, historical heroes of The Unnamed together? Why is Rook the key to saving the war-torn world of Exodus? How will everyone’s soon-to-be-favorite family of the future adapt to a new life in the present? The stories all start now! Creators you know. Characters you’ll love. This is Ghost Machine. Written and illustrated by Jason Fabok, Gary Frank, Bryan Hitch, Geoff Johns, Lamont Magee, Francis Manapul, Brad Meltzer, Ivan Reis, Peter Tomasi, Maytal Zchut, and more! Continue reading Ghost Machine #1 Review

Cobra Commander #1 Review

Cobra Commander #1 Review – Mini-Series Premiere. The Rise of Cobra begins here. In a world where the Cobra organization hasn’t formed, one man’s sinister plans to utilize the mysterious alien substance known as Energon sends shockwaves across the globe. Who is Cobra Commander? Where does he come from? And what horrors is he planning to unleash that will rock the world-and maybe the universe-to its core? Red-Hot writer Joshua Williamson (Superman, Duke) and artist Andrea Milana (Impact Winter: Rook) kick off the second of four action-packed miniseries that will introduce the best and worst humanity has to offer in the Energon Universe. Continue reading Cobra Commander #1 Review

Kill Your Darlings #5 Review

Kill Your Darlings #5 Review – After last issue’s insane events, with the evil entity from Rose’s dark childhood fantasy tales breaking through into our reality, Kill Your Darlings #5 pauses the story, flashing back to Rose’s mother Andrea and showing her story, which is equally as traumatic as Rose’s tale and filled with omens of what’s to come. Continue reading Kill Your Darlings #5 Review