Reviews

The Alternates #1 – Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum, Tim Seely, Christopher Mitten, Ian Herring, Tess Fowler, Scott Hepburn & Nate Piekos (Dark Horse Comics)

How much is enough? How much do you have to give before you’re handed your flowers and left to enjoy the rest of whatever time you have left doing what you want to do? That’s…


Minor Threats – Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum, Scott Hepburn, Ian Herring & Nate Piekos (Dark Horse Comics)

Bad guys as it turns out, don’t actually have all the fun. In fact, in the superhero community, if you’re way, way down the pecking order, being a supervillain is about as much fun as…



Castle Full Of Blackbirds – Mike Mignola, Angela Slatter, Valeria Burzo & Michelle Madsen (Dark Horse Comics)

I can’t be the only person in the room who always fixates on that strange old nursery rhyme about baking and pies whenever he hears the word blackbird, can I? At least I hope I’m…


Young Hellboy: Assault On Castle Death – Mike Mignola, Thomas Sniegoski, Craig Rousseau & Chris O’Halloran (Dark Horse Comics)

Moving can be hard on the soul and psyche no matter how old you are, but when you’re on the cusp of adolescence, it can seem like the end of the world. Having been forced…



Quick Stops: Anecdotes From The Annals Of The Askewniverse – Kevin Smith, Jeremy Simser, Phillip Hester, Ande Parks, Tango & Ahmed Raafat (Dark Horse Comics)

First things first, let’s get the disclaimer out of the way. If you’re not down with Dante and Randal, haven’t damn near peed yourself laughing at Jay and Silent Bob and don’t know who Holden…


Frankenstein: New World – Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Thomas Sniegoski, Peter Bergting & Michelle Madsen (Dark Horse Books)

As I slowly absorbed Mignola, Golden and Sniegoski’s story word by word and poured over every panel in an attempt to make the book last as long as possible, in my mind, all I could…


Night of the Ghoul – Scott Snyder & Francesco Francavilla (Dark Horse Books / ComiXology Originals)

The name of the book makes it sound kind of like a Vincent Price movie from the fifties doesn’t it? And if that had been the well worn Corman-esque path that Snyder and Francavilla had…


Spider-Man: The Lost Hunt – J.M. DeMattesis, Eder Massias, Brent Peeples, Kyle Hotz, Marguerite Sauvage & Travel Foreman (Marvel)

“Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can…” Except he can’t because Peter Parker lost his powers in a laboratory accident and now he’s just a regular schlub like the rest of us. A regular schlub…