Skip to Content

Trillium’s a Genre Smashing Love Letter to Comics’ Potential

Trillium #1-8 Written by Jeff Lemire Art by Jeff Lemire Colors by José Villarrubia Published by Vertigo The preeminent accolade bestowing body in comics, the Eisner Awards, has just released its list of nominees, a long, disparate collection as diverse as the medium itself. More so, considering it doesn’t have to look at comic books …

Read More about Trillium’s a Genre Smashing Love Letter to Comics’ Potential

Batroc To Leap Into Hearts In ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’

With Captain America: The Winter Soldier only a month from striking theaters, hype has been reaching critical mass. Billed by some as the best Marvel movie since Avengers, Winter Soldier will delve deeper into Captain America and S.H.I.E.L.D.’s rich, shadowy history. Happily, they’re reaching into the properties’ more colorful history as well with the inclusion …

Read More about Batroc To Leap Into Hearts In ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’

Animal Man #28 Showcases the Comic at its Best

Animal Man #28 Written by Jeff Lemire Art by Rafael Albuquerque Colors by Dave McCaig Published by DC Comics Poor Buddy Baker. Jeff Lemire has really put his family through the ringer. You can’t help but feel sorry for the guy. His son Cliff died in Rot Wars, his daughter has been drawn into the …

Read More about Animal Man #28 Showcases the Comic at its Best

Abby Arcane Feasts on Swamp Thing’s Strange Fruit… of Love

  The Montagues and the Capulets got nothing on Abby Arcane and Swamp Thing. Few romances in the big two have been so thoroughly explored and fleshed out. Abby and the dream of Alex Holland are two crazy kids caught on the wrong side of an insane monster, or on opposing sides of two of …

Read More about Abby Arcane Feasts on Swamp Thing’s Strange Fruit… of Love

Fone + Thorn = A Melancholy, Lovely Crush

Few romances hit harder than the first crush: powerful, inarticulate, star-crossed, lighthearted, tragic and melodramatic. Fone Bone’s puppy love for Thorn feels authentic, one of the many triumphs of Jeff Smith’s Bone. In a medium jammed with women in refrigerators, Fone’s crush is refreshingly innocent, whimsical, charming and doomed. She’s a tough but sweet human …

Read More about Fone + Thorn = A Melancholy, Lovely Crush

Midas Flesh #2 Lurches In the Right Direction

The Midas Flesh #2 of 8 Written by Ryan North Art by Shelli Paroline, Braden Lamb Covers By John Keogh, Emily Patridge, Noelle Stevenson Published by Boom! Studios   The second issue of The Midas Flesh continues the treacherous work of world building while moving the plot forward. Joey, Fatty, and Cooper (the Utah Raptor) discover the …

Read More about Midas Flesh #2 Lurches In the Right Direction

The Midas Flesh #1 Promises Grand Adventure

  The Midas Flesh #1 of 8 Written by Ryan North Art by Shelli Paroline, Braden Lamb Covers By John Keogh, Emily Patridge, Noelle Stevenson Published by Boom! Studios   If prodded or enticed or just listened too, children will tell stories. These stories often combine disparate elements: dinosaurs, war, robots, fighting, other stories, and …

Read More about The Midas Flesh #1 Promises Grand Adventure