Tiny Pages Made of Ashes 11/7/2014: Feasts for the Eye, Sadness for the Heart
Tiny Pages Made of Ashes is Comics Bulletin’s small press review column Maple Key Comics #2 (Neil Brideau / Josh Lees / Luke Howard / Sasha...
5.0
Sunday Slugfest: Wytches #1
Wytches is creepy. It starts out creepy and maintains creepy through the whole issue. That is not a complaint, though I’m creeped out more than...
3.0
Review: ‘Wonder Woman Volume 5: Flesh’
The good news is that the epic Wonder Woman storyline continues in Volume 5: Flesh. As we learned in Volume 4: War, Diana is in fact a child of Zeus...
3.0
Harley Quinn: Freak Show Excess
Everyone loves Harley Quinn. Or, at least the idea of her. She has risen from the ranks of B-list DC characters to become one of the most popular...
4.0
Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips and Fade Out
Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips are the Dark Dynamic Duo of comics, working both in the mainstream Big Two, and with their independent creator-owned...
4.0
Advance Review: ‘Sing No Evil’ Wins John Over
I confess that I didn’t think I was going to like Sing No Evil, but it won me over. I tend to like the more darker corners of the comic book...
5.0
Review: ‘Vixens Vamps & Vipers: The Lost Villainesses of Golden Age Comics’
Although I'm giving this book five stars, you should know it's more for historical interest than actual entertainment value, though reading Vixens...
3.0
Review: ‘Words For Pictures: The Art And Business of Writing Comics and Graphic Novels’ is Disappointing Advice
If you don’t know who Brian Michael Bendis is, then you aren’t reading comics, because he’s everywhere, from doing some of the big Marvel...
5.0
Digital Ash: Zen Pencils
I don't usually like to read long-form comics on a screen, but I am a fan of certain online comics, or maybe cartoons is a better term,...
5.0
Review: ‘Big Damn Sin City’ is a Must-Read Journey to a Dark Place
I was too young at the time to pay attention to details on comic book splash pages like writer credits, but I still remember that moment -- the issue...
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Review: ‘The Killing Jar’: It’s zombies. It’s a B-movie. We want to get to the action.
I love zombies. I love zombie stories. I don’t like much other horror, but there’s something about zombies—I think that they serve, easily, as...
3.0
Review: ‘Deathless’ is better than most of the Big Two superhero stuff coming out lately
One way to avoid the mess that the Big Two comics publishers have created, with the question of how their 50-plus-years-old superheroes fit in with...
3.5
Review: ‘How The World Was: A California Childhood’ Ordinary Life Turned Magical
American publishers First Second call How The World Was: A California Childhood by Emmanuel Guibert a “nonfiction graphic novel biography,” which...
2.0
Review: ‘Judge Dredd: The XXX Files’: This Sexy Farce Neither Amuses Nor Tittilates
After delving into some fairly serious and high-artsy graphic novels lately, I was actually looking forward to some more light reading, some pure...
4.0
Review: ‘Glacial Period’ is a beautiful, magical look at art
Imagine a parallel universe where the field of comics and graphic novels was not dominated by superheroes. That would be France, where the graphic...