Comic Reviews


Faceache: The Ken Reid Years Volume One: The First Hundred Scrunges – Ken Reid (Rebellion)

Before my infatuation with 2000AD took full grasp in the early 1980’s, I spent a great deal of time immersed in weekly comics like Buster, Whizzer & Chips and The Beano. I had never gone…


Conan the Slayer: The Devil in Iron – Cullen Bunn, Sergio Davila & Michael Atiyeh (Dark Horse)

Conan. The boy who left his homeland in search of adventure and grew to adulthood becoming a warrior, freebooter, thief, sword for hire and king in waiting.  He was, is and always will be the…


Marvel to Launch New Animation Franchise ‘Marvel Rising’

Marvel Entertainment announced today, “Marvel Rising,” a brand-new, multi-platform animation franchise starring the next generation of Marvel heroes set to launch in 2018. The program will launch with six, four-minute digital shorts that spotlight Spider-Gwen with her…


THE DOCTOR IS IN… THE “BLACK HAMMER” UNIVERSE

Following the success of Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston’s Eisner Award-winning series Black Hammer and its spinoff series Sherlock Frankenstein & The Legion of Evil, Dark Horse is excited to announce the next installment in the Black Hammer universe, Doctor Star…


Luke Cage: Sins of the Father – David F. Walker, Nelson Blake II & Marcio Menyz (Marvel)

The problem with being the biggest, baddest dog in the yard is that playing that role and the position that it puts you in can be the loneliest job in the world.  Something that Luke…


Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe Again – Cullen Bunn & Dalibor Talajic (Panini / Marvel)

Who do you call when you absolutely, positively have to kill every hero in the Marvel Universe? Why, Deadpool of course. Except, you can’t let him know that’s what you want him to do because,…


Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme: Time After Time – Robbie Thompson, Javier Rodriguez & Nathan Stockman (Panini / Marvel)

And now the end is near as the Sorcerers Supreme face the final curtain… At least, that’s how it seems as Time After Time begins with Isaac Newton, reading from one of the most powerful…


G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero comics sell out as Snake-Eyes makes her debut

Issues 244, 245, and 246 All Sell Out with a Second Printing On The Way Who is DAWN MORENO? She’s the new SNAKE-EYES and break-out character of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero! Scripted by legendary G.I….


Marvel partners with Stitcher to launch its first scripted podcast, ‘Wolverine: The Long Night’

Marvel New Media and top podcast listening service and content network Stitcher (Heaven’s Gate, Katie Couric, The Paris Review) today announced Wolverine: The Long Night, the first-ever Marvel scripted podcast, launching in spring 2018. The 10-episode…


W.M.D.: Weapons of Mutant Destruction – Greg Pak, Mahmud Asrar, Robert Gill & Marc Borstel (Marvel)

Get set for the return of William Stryker and his Weapon X program as they get set to wipe out every mutant on the face of the planet using their new secret weapons – gamma…