Lauren Faust’s Super Best Friends Forever was probably the most popular animated short on DC Nation before it even aired! The buzz on the net has been incredible, and the stylish previews had many commenters and message board denizens calling for a full length series right from the start. Well, the wait is over and the first installment has finally...
Z-Girl and her team are at it again in issue #2 of Z-Girl and the Four Tigers, a creator-owned and independently published series written by Jeff Marsick and illustrated by Kirk Manley. I had the pleasure of reading and reviewing the first issue last year in a prior article. In the interest of full disclosure, I was provided with an electronic review...
*Due to a shipping error many places did not receive this issue last week. Sadly, I live in one of those areas which is why this review is a week late. Also, due to the lateness, I’m going to keep this review fairly tight and direct to the point* Infestation 2 continues to rip through IDW‘s line of books! This time around, the Teenage Mutant Ninja...
Mary Talbot, the daughter of James and Nora Athernon, is just that—their only daughter. Raised with four brothers in the poor 1950s with teachers for parents, she had a fairly rigid upbringing, especially when it came to her Joycean scholar father. In her graphic novel Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes, released last month by Dark Horse Comics, Mary juxtaposes...
I may as well just get it out of the way from the beginning and admit that I am a huge fan of Tara McPherson‘s art. When I discovered her first Dark Horse Comics art book, Lonely Heart: The Art of Tara McPherson, I instantly recognized her work and bought the book without hesitation. Many of her other books, or books in which her work appeared, would be...
We all know that Superman’s alter-ego is a news reporter in the bustling city of Metropolis. A cover like that keeps him close to all of the breaking news that may need the attention of a super powerful super hero. Same goes with Spider-Man; as Peter Parker, he snaps pictures of the happenings of New York City, ever vigilant of some ne’er do well that could...
The Philadelphia Flower Show stopped me from getting my Comic Books on time. It is the rare occurrence that prevents me from going when it’s in town to get my weekly fix. I thought about purchasing a digital copy right away, which I still have yet to do. I wondered if I should just go through my back issue box and pick another pick of the week from there;...
After months of waiting and waiting, it’s finally here: FAIREST #1! First, I have to say the reason this review is up days after the initial release is because every time I sat down to write this review, I would get so excited about the book that I had to fight the urge to just say BUY IT! Rather than keeping it direct and to the point, I needed some time...
If your new comic stash this week doesn’t include Irredeemable #35 you are definitely missing out. BOOM! Studios is releasing some top quality content, stuff that should be on “must have” lists for both traditional and non-traditional superhero fans. The Redemption arc is now behind us, but the fallout from the event has amped up the momentum...
After reading the premiere issue of Aspen Comics’ Dead Man’s Run, I was excited for more of the series. Greg Pak, the genius behind Planet Hulk, has devised an original story about a maximum security prison that is hell. That’s no allegory mind you; the Andrew Jackson Maximum Security Federal Corrections Facility is Hell. Pak has created a number of...
Jonathan Hickman and Nick Pitarra’s new creator owned series has a relatively simple premise. What if the Manhattan Project, the government program to produce an atomic bomb, was in fact a cover for much weirder and more intriguing super science? Promotion for the series promised people from history, such as Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein,...
No, you didn’t miss Bullet Reviews last week and, no, I’m not discontinuing the column. Because there is so much going on, both on Comic Booked and in the ‘real world’, I decided it would be easier to make this a bi-weekly so we can continue to give you the very best on quick reviews. That isn’t to say it won’t go back to...
Too Much Coffee Man is back! Technically he never left, but it’s been quite some time since his adventures have been collected in print. The folks at BOOM! Studios have remedied that, with a massive yet attractively priced compilation of strips titled Too Much Coffee Man: Cutie Island. Self described as a “coffee-themed super-hero parody with universal...
** The following review while careful not to reveal any actual spoilers from this issue, it does tease the reader with hints as well as spoilers from issues past. Please feel free to purchase issue seven on 03/14/2012 ** So, as you all may have noticed, there seems to be a major “dum dum dum” styled moment at pretty much the end of every issue...
