This is more like a project from Top Shelf or Fantagraphics than the publishers of Warhammer comics. So, a hearty pat on the back to BOOM! Studios for expanding somewhat. Never As Bad As You Think is a 64 page hard cover collection of several on-line comic strips wackily produced by husband and wife [...]
City of Dust #4 Review
Steve Niles is beginning to pull all the pieces together in this tightly written penultimate tale. He spent the first two issues building this futuristic world where religion and fanciful stories are illegal, for the safety of the populace. Then he moved on to developing the motivations of the characters, namely cop Philip Khrome, who [...]
Faces of Evil Overview
Faces of Evil is DC Comics’ attempt to put the spotlight on a few of their villains this month. With several one-shots and a few villain-centric issues in some of their regular titles, it’s a mixed bag. Here are my faves. Detective Comics #852 For my money this series has been far more entertaining than [...]
2008′s Best Comics
Well, maybe not the best, but the best sellers. Diamond Distributors, who pretty much have a monopoly on English language comics worldwide, has released their list of last year’s best selling comics, and related items. It should come as no surprise that Marvel was the year’s leader in market share, with DC close behind. And [...]
Re-design Batman’s Costume
Some good news for artists out there. The excellent web-site, Project Rooftop is putting out the challenge of re-designing the Dark Knight’s threads. Project Rooftop is a fan fave site that challenges artists to come up with alternate designs for some of comics most popular characters. So far they’ve covered Superman, Iron Man, Supergirl and more. It’s [...]
Lotsa Stuff
I’ve been busy this week over at Broken Frontier. There’s my review of Top Cow’s Witchblade #123, which is another excellent offering from Ron Marz and Stjepan Sejic. This has been a great series as of late. I’m so glad I’ve been reading it. There’s also my interview with writer Marc Andreyko on the end [...]
The Return of Quality
Just before Christmas, I posted that one of my fave comic shops was closing down, due to an increase in rent, and a disinterest in the then owners. However, it’s now back. It’s heroic return was always up in the air, as a few interested parties put up their hands. Displaying a “Under New Management” [...]
Oh Happy Day
I received two special deliveries this morning. One was for 500 A5 size flyers from the handy printer right next to work, for promos for the first issue of Extra Sequential, my new free on-line comics mag. They look good, I gotta say. Not that I can take any credit for that really. The other [...]
Darkstalkers Art Tribute Contest
Surely this will be of interest to the artistic minded readers out there. Darkstalkers is like Street Fighter, but not as popular, you could say. It’s mired more in fantasy than anything else, but like most of Capcom’s franchises, it has its fans. Udon produced a successful Street Fighter tribute book recently, and now [...]
Archaia Is Back
Now, this is exciting news. Indie publisher, Archaia Studios Press is back. They’ve been on hiatus for quite a few months now due to some restructuring, but they now have books available on the shelves. It happened all rather quickly, but now you can pick up a collection of the web-comic Gunnerkrigg Court, the Mouse [...]
Twilight Zone: The Movie Review
I’ve wanted to watch this film for a long time, but only saw it for the first time recently on cable TV. I knew about it, mostly due to the parodies (from two classic Simpsons Halloween specials) and the fact that this film was responsible for the helicopter accident that killed actor Vic Morrow. Me [...]
Kevin Grevioux Interview
He’s an interesting guy, this Grevioux. Creator of the Underworld film franchise the actor/writer/stuntman has also recently written New Warriors for Marvel. I interviewed him over at Broken Frontier, and he discussed Hollywood protocol, racism and superheroes and his new series at Ape Entertainment, Sista Samurai, which involves supermodels and the Yakuza. What a combo! [...]
Gestalt Comics Sale
Local (to me, anyway) Aussie publisher, Gestalt Comics are having a sale on their original graphic novels. It includes their entire range of unique books. Admittedly its only 3 books but they’re pretty different, and a bargain, as they start at only $10! The sale has been extended until the end of January, so [...]
Read Hexed #1 For Free
I read BOOM!’s new series, Hexed about female magician/thief named Luci recently and really enjoyed it. Delightful art, an interesting Buffy-like protagonist and an engrossing story. It’s a great comic really – for fanboys and newbies alike. BOOM! believe it is too and now you can read the whole issue for free at MySpace. No [...]
