Ludocrats #2 is silly like space is cold - REVIEW
Keigen Rea — Am...am I boring?
Next to me sits an empty salad bowl. I’m wearing a shirt that says “I know,” appearing over the silhouette a well-known scoundrel. I am a basic bitch.
Read MoreWynd #1 from BOOM! is a perfect debut - REVIEW
By Jacob Cordas — I can’t imagine how good it must feel to be BOOM! Studios right now. They have continually been able to release amazing comic after amazing comic for every age group. Their line up is a jaw-dropping hodgepodge of perfection. With a focus on genre storytelling, especially the fantasy genre (and all of its respective subgenres), they keep pushing the boundaries of what this style of storytelling can look like. You want swamp set semi-future fantasy revolving around pirate-radio? Read b.b. free. You want scifi fantasy riffs off of mythology starring a dinosaur? Read The Midas Flesh. You want a slice of life witch-school take on veterinary sciences? Read Hex Vet.
Read MoreNo One's Rose #2 Vault Comics - REVIEW
By Keigen Rea — No One’s Rose feels like it has perfect combination of elements to become a giant hit. An environmental focus while this generation faces the largest effects of climate change, riding the heat of the (arguably) hottest publisher in comics, sharing aesthetics with Krakoa without treading the same ground thematically — all of these are individually enough to make a story into a hit, but all three together seems like a recipe for a crossover sensation, even without having great execution. Fortunately for us, the execution of this comic matches the potential beautifully.
Read MoreMitchum by Christian ‘Blutch’ Hincker - TRADE RATING
By Bruno Savill De Jong — “Don’t be afraid”, a hulking semi-demonic sailor tells a tied-up woman, “We just want to look”. Mitchum is full of such sickly voyeurism, an erratic sketchbook of stories bound together with acts of artists observing and illustrating female models. This collection from French cartoonist Christian Hincker, also known as ‘Blutch’, depicts this feverish and often sexually-charged relationship between artist and image, obsessively attempting to pin down primal urges which quickly slip away.
Read MoreRASCAL by Jean-Luc Deglin - TRADE RATING
By d. emerson eddy — Let's get one thing out of the way, I am thoroughly biased when it comes to approaching this review, because I love cats. I spent my early years growing up on a farm, so I love all animals, but I really love cats. At any given time there could be ten to twenty of them and I loved every single one of their mewling, furry little faces. I still love cats. And have one currently staring at me expectantly to mention her here. Or she wants food... Yeah, probably that latter. Anyway, I love cats. Which makes reading Rascal by Jean-Luc Deglin (translated by Edward Gauvin and lettered by Tom B. Long), a tale about a woman who receives a cat from her mother, an enjoyable and relatable undertaking. Published here by Top Shelf, Rascal is an English translation of the first book in Deglin's series Crapule, published in French by Dupuis.
Read MoreJames Bond by Warren Ellis Omnibus - TRADE RATING
By Wesley Messer — Amid the multitudes of takes on James Bond over the years, Warren Ellis writing the character seems almost too perfect. I mean, it is Ellis taking on James freaking Bond, one of the legendary spies of our pop culture landscape. The main question I had coming into reading the new James Bond by Warren Ellis Omnibus, however, was, with creatives having adding their own style and flow to the character, just what does Warren Ellis add? That’s what I’m here to figure out today.
Read MoreJames Bond #5 (2019) - REVIEW
By Jarred A. Luján — If you’ve been following along with the site’s reviews for Dynamite’s James Bond series, you probably know by now that I love this series. I wrote a Get Hype for the site when it was announced that Danny Lore and Vita Ayala were teaming up to co-write the series, as well as several reviews for several issues so far. The series has been a lot of fun so far, and it’s one of my favorite things on my pull.
Read MoreJoin the Future #2 - REVIEW
By Keigen Rea — Join the Future’s second issue is about a teenage girl losing nearly everything she knows and loves, and then deciding to fight for what she has left. It’s about a powerful society throwing its weight around to gain as much control as possible. It’s about the promise of civilization and the costs.
Read MoreDecorum #2 - REVIEW of Jonathan Hickman's new book
By Jacob Cordas — Jonathan Hickman, perhaps more than any other comic writer working today, plays a long game. Minor details in an early issue will pay off massive dividends years later. Character choices that seem off will often become character defining who knows how many issues later. This normally creates a unique problem when reviewing an early issue of any of his series…how do you say if something is good or bad when it necessitates knowing how it ends to judge? Is judgement possible or even valid this early in the game?
Read MoreThe Kill Lock #5 by Livio Ramondelli - REVIEW
By Wesley Messer — The Kill Lock is one of the most uniquely emotional reading experiences out there. Four robots of different types, The Artisan, The Wraith, The Laborer, and The Kid connected by The Kill Lock as they travel the stars knowing if one dies, they all do. Each of them with their own story as to how they got branded with the lock that seals their fate, and their search for a potential cure for it. I caught up with this series for this review and to say the least, it has left an impression in the best way. You can already likely tell I love this series but here is where I say to you, why I love it as much as I do. I will be focusing on this issue but by the end of this, I hope you will want to get the rest of the series leading up to this point.
Read MoreFaithless II #1 by Azzarello & Llovet - REVIEW
By Jacob Cordas — The first volume of Faithless was a gut punch and a reach around all at the same time. I had become jaded with writer Brian Azzarello at this point, concerned that his best work was behind him. And artist Maria Llovet was completely off my radar. But the art looked great and Azzarello had built up so much good will with me after writing one of my preferred runs of Hellblazer, I decided to give it a shot.
Read MoreThe Red Mother from BOOM! Studios - FULL SERIES REVIEW
By Keigen Rea — At a time when there are so many great horror comics, Red Mother doesn’t quite make itself into an essential read, but is still very much worth checking out. The series is about a woman named Daisy, who gets attacked by something while walking with her boyfriend. She wakes up in the hospital, missing an eye as well as her boyfriend. What follows is Daisy dealing with symptoms of PSTD plus a dash of creepy monster added for flavor.
Read MoreBritish Ice by Owen D. Pomery - REVIEW
By Bruno Savill De Jong — White is not a color, but the absence of one. It dilutes and covers up cultures which it comes in contact with. Imperialism, therefore, is a blizzard that buries its colonial atrocities against indigenous populations under thick covers of blank snow. It is up to others to melt it away. This is what Owen D. Pomery attempts to convey in British Ice, a well-meaning if shallow tale of a fictionalized remote British Overseas Territory in the Arctic. Even somewhere so distant, colonial resentments bubble beneath the surface, with British Ice surveying the factional divisions of flying a British flag amidst the frozen Arctic wasteland.
Read More920London by Remy Boydell - REVIEW
By Kirin Xin — Sharpie fumes. Striped hair extensions. MCR. Gloomy bear. Neon black humor in the face of existential angst. ‘Wow… Google analytics is really going to clock me for looking up all this emo kids stuff…’ That was my first thought while reading 920London by Remy Boydell.
Read MoreEverything Vol. 1 - TRADE RATING REVIEW
By Gabe Gonzalez — “If you don’t find it in the index, look very carefully through the catalogue.” …this quote comes at the start of Everything #5, the first season finale of one of the most interesting and abstract titles put out by Dark Horse’s Berger Books imprint. That quote comes at the beginning and expertly speaks to what the entire story is about. If you need to ejaculate every time you lay down to sleep, if you need an infestation of ants, if you need an illness, or if you need a paint chip-driven hallucination — The Everything shopping center has it all!
Read MoreButcher of Paris #1 - #5: FULL SERIES REVIEW
By Jarred A. Luján — Back before COVID-19 derailed so many facets of our life, Butcher of Paris was one of the titles I found to be among the most intriguing on my pull list. Though we’ve had to wait a bit for the completion of the book, this is a series that is certainly going to be one of my favorites during this entire messy, complicated year.
Read MoreNovember, Book II - REVIEW
By Keigen Rea — November is about three women being brutalized by cops and the broken systems in society. It’s a story about a city under siege and the effect it has on a few ordinary citizens, which is to say; it feels like this last week in the US. Right now, pretty much any media I consume reminds me of the protests and brutality by racists taking place across the United States, because, well, it seems to be the only reasonable thing to think about right now.
Read MoreMirka Andolfo's Mercy #2 - REVIEW
By Gabe Gonzalez — In terms of comic book storytelling, the dual-genre of mystery/horror is something that seems to come up rather often, but never seems to be utilized to a point of the great potential it could have. Written and illustrated by Mirka Andolfo, the new series Mercy is well-visualized with good writing to match. Yet, as the mystery continues from the first issue…I still haven’t found myself entirely enthralled with the narrative, and I think the book might suffer some of the same issues that other comic book mysteries often do.
Read MoreSabrina The Teenage Witch - Something Wicked #1 - REVIEW
By Jacob Cordas — I greatly enjoyed the first volume of Sabrina the Teenage Witch by the creative team of Kelly Thompson, Veronica Fish and Andy Fish. The first comic was a fun and visually exciting take on the character. They had smartly maintained the lighter tone of the main Archie Comics while embracing a more whimsical and vibrant world. I have been eager for this latest volume to start coming out and am not disappointed now that we have Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Something Wicked #1.
Read MoreEngineward #1 - ADVANCED REVIEW
By Jarred A. Luján — Engineward is a new comic from Vault Comics. The 12 issue series is described by Vault as: In ENGINEWARD, Earth is an ancient myth, long forgotten. Now, the god-like Celestials, who embody the surviving zodiac signs, rule with brutal efficiency. When Joss, an Engineward, discovers and reactivates the head of a fossilized Ghoulem, she learns all is not as intended. Her destiny—and the truth about her imperious rulers—lies somewhere far beyond the borders of her shantytown.
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