A special note to our regular Bullet Reviews readers and followers: You may have noticed Bullet Reviews was missing from your regular Tuesday reading list last week. This was because, among other things, I was out-of-town for a...
More intellectually curious than it is viscerally satisfying, Saucer Country (from Paul Cornell and Ryan Kelly) continues in its eighth issue to pick away at great American myth-making. UFOs, aliens, and government cover-ups ar...
A brain surgery is one way to start a reboot. At least, that’s how Rick Remender and John Cassaday open Uncanny Avengers, the image of Scott Summers as Phoenix shown in the eye of a patient–who turns out to ...
There’s a moment, more than halfway into Non-Humans #1, where a kid named Todd (the son of the protagonist, Aimes) meets with his girlfriend to show her their new baby. The girlfriend is a mannequin taken to calling...
TUESDAY! Yeah, this has become the primer for New Comics Day, Wednesday. Each week we take a look at a sampling of recently released books from various publishers and give some quick thoughts. This week we look at: Amazing Spid...
As far as indie comics go, the expanded release How I Spent My Summer Invasion (from publisher We Comics) really tests the limits of what it means to be precious and cutesy. Child protagonists, the ‘wacky’ c...
DC’s New 52 reboot has reaffirmed the power that visual storytelling has in comic books. Sadly, they didn’t do this by putting artists with distinctive styles or remarkable craftsmanship on their titles. For the...
There’s sort of a sub-movement within the “Big Two” right now, fixated on self-referential spoofing of all the goofier aspects of the cape comic. Lots of big, weird moments featuring takes on characters or c...
While Half-Century War’s first issue made a few flirty advances towards those kind of Vietnam War themes that are James Stokoe’s fascination (despite taking place well before the war), part two gets down to bu...
So, we come to this: the conclusion to Rob Liefeld’s run on Deathstroke, ending with a gimmick. A fitting capstone to his casual, one could say accidental, subversion of superhero comic books. As in Savage ...