Outer Darkness is Sci-Fi You Can Chew On
Brace for impact! Secure the doors and ready your pull lists! There is another stunning #1 coming your way from Image Comics. Bless my soul, that company is on a roll with a line-up of can’t-miss...
View ArticleRat Queens is the Best Comedy Team in Comics
Picture for me your four favorite comedians. Whoever they may be, put them in a room. And imagine they’re playing an action/fantasy RPG like Dungeons & Dragons. Wouldn’t you want to be there for...
View ArticleDIE is Damn Fine Goth Jumaji
Tabletop gaming is having its greatest renaissance since the Satanic Panic of the 80’s and Tom Hanks made that movie that said Dungeons & Dragons was going to make your kids kill people in the...
View ArticleCrowded is This Year’s Surprise Comic Hit
The following originally ran in the Weekly Planet 10/10/18. It’s that classic comic success story. A team of creators release a passion project #1. There’s no superheroes in it. It catches fire. Word...
View ArticleCrowded: One of the Best in Modern Comics
In the near future, none of us will have only one job. We’ll have one big job and a couple small jobs, or eighteen small jobs that amount to almost one big one. The “gig economy” is upon us and it is...
View ArticleComic Book Tricks and Treats for Halloween
Happy Halloween! To celebrate my favorite holiday, here are some tricks and treats from several sub-genres of horror. Green River Killer, for fans of slasher flicks and true crime Slasher films are my...
View ArticleThe Golden Child and Challenged Books
Last week The Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child came out and became another challenged comic book. Rafael Grandpa’s artwork, which paints a colorful yet haunting image of Gotham, has lead to...
View Article2019 Comic Naughty and Nice List
With the 2019 holiday season in full swing, let’s take a look at who made the naughty and nice list. There are plenty of good hearted heroes and dastardly villains, but these ones stuck with me. Jane...
View ArticleBest Comics of the 2010s
The 2010s are no more, but we can look back fondly at some of the outstanding comics from the decade. This list is restricted to one comic per year, so some comics that I love, like Thor: Goddess of...
View ArticlePretty Deadly Wraps Its Fantastical Third Book
The final issue of Pretty Deadly: The Rat is out this week. With that in mind, I want to look at the first two installments of the series, The Shrike and The Bear. The comic follows two of Death’s...
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