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Fantastic Four Goes Back to Basics With ‘Season One’ Graphic Novel [Review]
Filed under: Marvel, Reviews, Opinion "Space tourism." That's the neat way writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa establishes new context for his take on the origin of the Fantastic Four. The FF spaceflight is one of those richly crazy Silver Age ideas that nee... [read more]
‘Gotham City Impostors’ Beta Delivers Fast, Fun and Batty FPS Action
Filed under: DC, Reviews, Gaming
At first glance, Gotham City Impostors may seem like yet another doomed licensed video game set in the Batman universe. After all, the game is essentially multiplayer-only and revolves around conflict between two Bat... [read more]
Daniel Radcliffe’s Adult Vehicle: A Review of The Woman in Black
Last night, I had occasion to take in a preview of Daniel Radcliffe's first adult film vehicle (no, I'm not counting "My Boy Jack" towards that). "The Lady in Black" is adapted (somewhat creatively, I gather) from the 1983 Susan Hill novel by director James Watkins and screenwriter Jane [read more]
The Shadow and Garth Ennis – A Review of the First Script
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One of the questions you ask when you hear about a new Shadow comic is “what kind of take are they doing?” Another is “how serious will it be?” And then there’s “how faithful is it to the source material?” As it happens, I’ve [read more]
Kids Comics Gone Bad: Reviewing Criminal: The Last of the Innocent
Ed Brubaker's and Sean Phillips' Criminal series is the rarest of treats: a comic that I can count on showing up in the library a couple weeks after if comes out. Like clockwork. And it doesn't seem to matter what city I'm in. Sure enough, there's a [read more]
Spider-Man and Daredevil’s ‘Devil and the Details’ Is the First Great Comic of 2012
Filed under: Marvel, Reviews It was only a few weeks ago that I was writing about how Daredevil was my pick for the best super-hero comic of 2011, so the fact that it's kicking of 2012 as my undisputed favorite title on the stands shouldn't really b... [read more]
Joe Keatinge and Ross Campbell’s ‘Glory’ Lives Up to the Name [Review]
Filed under: Image, Reviews
When Image Comics announced last year that it was doing a full-on relaunch of Rob Liefeld's Extreme Studios comics, the most surprising thing for me wasn't that this was something that was happening in the year 2012, bu... [read more]
‘Prophet’ Relaunch Blends Conan and Sci-Fi Into A Sublime Package [Review]
Filed under: Reviews, Indie
A relaunch of Prophet, the muscles-and-guns Rob Liefeld comic about a time-traveling soldier originally published by Extreme Studios in the '90s, isn't something that would normally interest me. Finding out that Brandon... [read more]
‘Manta-Man’ Flips the Script on Superhero Skin [Webcomic]
Filed under: Reviews, Webcomics
I realize this is blasphemy, but if I woke up tomorrow with superpowers, I'm not sure if I'd become a superhero. As much as I'd like to think that I'd stand up and fight the good fight, the truth is I'm much more comf... [read more]
Spandexless Reads: ‘Terka: Missing Pieces’ by Andrea Tsurumi
Filed under: Reviews, Opinion
Welcome to another installment of our weekly syndication partnership with Spandexless.com. This week we present contributor Erik Sugay's review of Terka: Missing Pieces by Andrea Tsurumi.
Terka: Missing Pieces is a ... [read more]
Spandexless Reads: ‘The Dreamland Chronicles’ by Scott Christian Sava [Review]
Filed under: Reviews, Opinion
Welcome to another installment of our weekly syndication partnership with Spandexless.com. This week we present Managing Editor Beth Scorzato's review of The Dreamland Chronicles by Scott Christian Sava.
I'll admit I... [read more]
‘Baja’: The Best Noir Comic Set in the Desert
Filed under: Graphic Novels, Reviews, IDW
Good crime comics used to be so hard to find. After the Comics Code Authority spelled doom for the genre after their heyday in the '40s and '50s, they virtually disappeared from the medium for decades. Tha... [read more]
‘Judge Dredd vs. Zombies’ iOS Game: Functional but Frustrating [Review]
Filed under: Reviews, Gaming, Opinion
The last time Judge Dredd was featured in a video game (Little Big Planet costume packs notwithstanding) was in 2003's Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death. Now eight years later, the British comic icon is back in devel... [read more]
‘Red Skull Incarnate’: Best Use of Horrifying Real-Life History in a Superhero Comic
Filed under: Marvel, Reviews
Dealing with characters in a historically accurate environment can be tricky. Origin stories for villains with vague, unspecified pasts can be pretty hard to pull off, too. Typically, unsuccessful forays are quickly... [read more]
Spandexless Reads: ‘Critical Millennium’ by Andrew E.C. Gaska and Daniel Dussault [Review]
Filed under: Reviews, Opinion
Welcome to another installment of our weekly syndication partnership with Spandexless.com. This week we present contributor Erik Sugay's review of Critical Millennium by Andrew E.C. Gaska and Daniel Dussault.
D... [read more]
‘Defenders’ #1: Big, Bold, Crazy and Awesome [Review]
Filed under: Marvel, Reviews
The last time I did an interview with Matt Fraction, one of the last questions I asked was just "Defenders: Why?" It seemed like a weird move to go from writing the big summer crossover to relaunching a team that, desp... [read more]
Spandexless Reads: Twisted Dark Vol. 1 by Neil Gibson
Filed under: Reviews, Opinion
Welcome to another installment of our weekly syndication partnership with Spandexless.com. This week we present contributor Erik Sugay's review of Twisted Dark Vol. 1 by Neil Gibson with art by Caspar Wijngaard, Atula S... [read more]
‘Princeless’: A Fairy Tale Parody Where the Princesses Are Rescuin’ For Themselves
Filed under: Reviews, Indie
I'm pretty sure that if you went back and did the research, you'd find that the fairy tale parody genre entered literature about a half hour after the fairy tale itself. It's a pretty crowded field and has been for a wh... [read more]
Major Spoilers Podcast #360: The Complete Bone
This week on the show: The Complete Bone! Reviews! Odin does something to Iron Man! All this, plus Matthew, too, in this installment of the Major Spoilers Podcast. Direct Download Subscribe via iTunes RSS Feed Show Notes after the Jump! … Continu... [read more]