Tag: Dark Horse Comics

Dark Horse Comics, featured, Groo: Gods Against Groo, Reviews

Groo: Gods Against Groo #4 Review

Groo: Gods Against Groo #4 Review – Heaven and Earth are in turmoil! They’re both experiencing a special form of chaos known as Groo. While Divine Groo and Earthly Groo continue to wreck their surroundings – no matter where they find themselves – Sergio Aragonés delivers another back cover Rufferto strip! This issue concludes the epic, hilarious storyline that began in Groo: Fray of the Gods, continues in Groo: Play of the Gods, and now ends in this comic series! Continue reading Groo: Gods Against Groo #4 Review

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Dark Horse Comics, featured, Masters of the Universe Masterverse, Masters of the Universe: Masterverse, Reviews

Masters of the Universe Masterverse #2 Review

Masters of the Universe Masterverse #2 Review – In the depths of Castle Grayskull, The Sorceress attempts to save He-Man from Zodak with more tales of his influence across the multiverse! In a world where champions have fallen, a hard-bitten Duncan and his partner Evil-Lyn take on a strange kidnapping case in MAN-AT-ARMS-FOR-HIRE! And on the Harmony Sea, Adam, Commander of the King’s army and the captured thief Jitsu search for the power to conquer Eternia! Continue reading Masters of the Universe Masterverse #2 Review

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Assassin’s Apprentice, Dark Horse Comics, Reviews

Assassin’s Apprentice #4 Review

Assassin’s Apprentice #4 Review – Normally, finding an assassin at the foot of your bed in the middle of the night is a recipe for disaster. But for Fitz, it turns out to be a doorway into a whole new world. Soon, Fitz’s life becomes split between his daylight duties with Burrich and his nocturnal lessons deep below the Keep. But when his new master sets him a seemingly impossible task, the boy will find his loyalty stretched to the breaking point. Continue reading Assassin’s Apprentice #4 Review

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Dark Horse Comics, Groo: Gods Against Groo, Reviews

Groo: Gods Against Groo #3 Review

Groo: Gods Against Groo #3 Review – While the gods above try to escape the fate of an endless fray with Divine Groo, the priests of Diothos plot to convert all of Groo’s believers to their god, which would end his heavenly destruction for good! Yet, the faith of Groo’s followers is strong. Will their devotion prove as undefeatable as the barbarian himself? Also features the Rufferto backup strip! Continue reading Groo: Gods Against Groo #3 Review

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Dark Horse Comics, Hellboy, Hellboy in Love, Reviews

Hellboy in Love #3 Review

Hellboy in Love #3 Review – Sparks fly when Hellboy and Anastasia take a surprise trip to Turkey. Anastasia’s former professor has unearthed the birthplace of Turkish shadow puppetry, but it seems there is more lurking in the shadows than he bargained for. Facing demonic presences is nothing new to Hellboy, but doing it alongside Anastasia is a new challenge! Continue reading Hellboy in Love #3 Review

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Dark Horse Comics, Masters of the Universe: Masterverse, Reviews

Masters of the Universe: Masterverse #1 Review

Masters of the Universe: Masterverse #1 Review – In the depths of Castle Grayskull, the Sorceress and Zodac debate the value of He-Man. To save the life of her champion, the Sorceress must take the Cosmic Enforcer on a tour of the multiverse! First, a tour across a world where a dim, barbaric He-Man bumbles through a world of annoying warrior goddesses and bored demons as he’s pursued by a hungry green tiger in a tale drawn by the legendary Sergio Aragonés! Continue reading Masters of the Universe: Masterverse #1 Review

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Dark Horse Comics, Reviews, Where Monsters Lie

Where Monsters Lie #1 Review

Where Monsters Lie #1 Review – Welcome to Wilmhurst, a gated community in the countryside where every psychotic slasher from your nightmares takes a little R&R in-between murder sprees. In Where Monsters Lie #1, we’re introduced to the murderous residents of Wilmhurst and get to see them in terrifying action. It’s a new grindhouse-style horror series with a dash of comedy, and it starts here! Continue reading Where Monsters Lie #1 Review

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Dark Horse Comics, featured, Minor Threats, Reviews

Minor Threats #4 Review

Minor Threats #4 Review -Betrayed by one of their own and at the mercy of the maniac they set out to kill, the Minor Threats are sent on a suicide mission by the Stickman into the inner sanctum of the Insomniac. See which of our cast of C-list costumed criminals make it out alive (hint: not a lot of them) as the most dangerous night of their lives comes to a nail-biting conclusion! Continue reading Minor Threats #4 Review

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Dark Horse Comics, Leonide the Vampyr: A Christmas for Crows, Reviews

Leonide the Vampyr: A Christmas for Crows #1 Review

Leonide the Vampyr: A Christmas for Crows #1 Review – Leonide, the morbid young girl who’s also a soul-stealing vampire, returns in Leonide the Vampyr: A Christmas for Crows. And much like the last book in the series, Leonide the Vampyr: Miracle at Crow’s Head, this book drips with creepy atmosphere. Forget ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’, if you really want a deeply disturbing and creepy story that will appeal to both youngsters and adults, look no further than this book. Continue reading Leonide the Vampyr: A Christmas for Crows #1 Review

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Castle Full of Blackbirds, Dark Horse Comics, Reviews

Castle Full of Blackbirds #2 Review

Castle Full of Blackbirds #2 Review – Castle Full of Blackbirds #2, firmly set within the vast Hellboy Universe, continues the story of Sara May Blackburn, a girl with psychic powers who has come to the Linton School for Girls to find the mysterious Miss Brook, who she met in the two-part mini-series B.P.R.D.: The Return of Effie Kolb. Sara hoped Miss Brook would give her more of an understanding of her powers, but instead, Miss Brook has run her through a gamut of tests. Is Miss Brook simply helping Sara rise to the next level or does she have a more sinister purpose behind Sara’s training? Continue reading Castle Full of Blackbirds #2 Review

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Dark Horse Comics, Reviews, Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories

Star Wars Hyperspace Stories #2 Review

Star Wars Hyperspace Stories #2 Review – Luke and Leia go on a scouting mission to a remote planet in Star Wars Hyperspace Stories #2. There, they run into a battalion of Imperial troopers and go on the run, trying to evade them and escape to bring precious intel back to the Rebel fleet. This tale is set between Episode IV (Star Wars) and Episode V (The Empire Strikes Back). Continue reading Star Wars Hyperspace Stories #2 Review

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Dark Horse Comics, Reviews

Maskerade #1 Review

Maskerade #1 Review – Kevin Smith (legendary director of ‘Clerks’, ‘Dogma’, ‘Chasing Amy’, etc.) has started the Secret Stash Press imprint, a new line of comics published by Dark Horse Comics. Secret Stash Press will feature books with characters from his various films, as well as books starring new characters. Kicking off the Secret Stash Press line of books is Maskerade #1, the first of an 8-issue mini-series featuring a new female hero more brutal than the Punisher, who uses every weapon at her disposal to cause as much bloodshed as possible on her targets. It all takes place in The Trench, a run-down disaster of a city that makes Gotham City look positively crime-free and squeaky clean by comparison. Continue reading Maskerade #1 Review

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Dark Horse Comics, Pearl, Reviews

Pearl #4 Review

Pearl #4 Review – As Pearl starts to put the pieces together, she realizes that her family was not as advertised. The real question is will she be able to confront this before Tokyo’s most dangerous assassin comes to clean up the mess they think she’s made. You are ill-prepared for the beautiful artwork that Michael Gaydos has brought to this yakuza epic about art, family, and the weird stuff in-between. Continue reading Pearl #4 Review

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Dark Horse Comics, Minor Threats, Reviews

Minor Threats #1 Review

Minor Threats #1 Review – It’s hard out there for a supervillain. Not the world conquerors, chaos engines, or arch-nemeses . . . but the little guys. The ones who put on uniforms, knock over jewelry stores, and get tied to poles. And things are about to get worse. The psychotic Stickman has murdered Kid Dusk, sidekick to Twilight Citys premier crime-fighter, the Insomniac. The Insomniac’s teammates are tearing Twilight apart, turning it into a police state–desperate to capture Stickman and stop the Insomniac from crossing that final line which he may never come back from. Continue reading Minor Threats #1 Review

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