THE BULLETPROOF COFFIN: DISINTERRED #3 Written by David Hine Art by Shaky Kane Release Date: March 28, 2012 Bulletproof Coffin is a trip through the sordid underbelly of a depraved society. A beat poet film-noir. With every page turn, I expect to see Stan and Jack sitting in a bar, ingesting who knows what,…
Review: NO PLACE LIKE HOME #2
NO PLACE LIKE HOME #2 Written by Angelo Tirotto Art by Richard Jordan Release Date: March 21, 2012 The second chapter of this series didn’t get me much further to figuring out why we need yet another version of Wizard of Oz. Though the angle of Oz as a horror is intriguing, there’s still a…
Review: THIEF OF THIEVES #2
THIEF OF THIEVES #2 Written by Robert Kirkman & Nick Spencer Art by Shawn Martinbrough Release Date: March 14, 2012 When I read issue #1 of Thief of Thieves, I had been only so-so on the book until the final page twist. That cliffhanger gets teased further as Nick Spencer tells stories in two time…
Review: PETER PANZERFAUST #2
PETER PANZERFAUST #2 Written by Kurtis Wiebe Art by Tyler Jenkins Release Date: March 14, 2012 Kurtis Wiebe has not slowed down in issue 2. As with the first issue, I found myself saying out loud after finishing this issue “that was really good!” Then I went back and read it again. The framing device…
Review: QUEEN CRAB HC
QUEEN CRAB Written by Jimmy Palmiotti Art by Artiz Eiguren Release Date: March 14, 2012 I have no idea if you’ll like this book. Not the best way to start a review, but it’s the most honest in this case. Funded through Kickstarter, Queen Crab is a graphic novel by Jimmy Palmiotti published through Image.…
Review: SAGA #1
SAGA #1 Written by Brian K. Vaughan Art by Fiona Staples Release Date: March 14, 2012 Saga….what an appropriate name for what could be the most epic comic of 2012. I don’t mean that in the bastardized form of the word as is used in ‘epic fail’ – I mean it for what it truly…
Review: HELL YEAH #1
Hell Yeah: The Last Generation of Heroes #1 Written by Joe Keatinge Art by Andre Szymanowicz Release Date: March 7, 2012 Image is cranking out the debut issues faster than anyone can keep up, and it has been fantastic. Keatinge and Synmanowicz are playing in the sub-genre I call “post-super-hero.” Super powered individuals exist, but…
Review: THE MANHATTAN PROJECTS #1
The Manhattan Projects #1 Written by Jonathan Hickman Art by Nick Pitarra Release Date: March 7, 2012 Jonathan Hickman is among the top names in comics today but so far I haven’t been a convert. I thought his Fantastic Four/FF work was fine but it didn’t hold my interest. I just didn’t know what all…
Review: PROPHET #22
PROPHET #22 Written by Brandon Graham Art by Simon Roy Release Date: February 22, 2012 Desolation. If this was a ‘use one word to describe the entire’ comic game there would be no other word that fits as well as ‘desolation’. Brandon Graham does a fantastic job in Prophet #22 of evoking a sense of…
Review: GLORY #23
GLORY #23 Written by Joe Keatinge Art by Sophie Campbell Release Date: February 15, 2012 As someone who has never read a single Glory comic, I was a little apprehensive about this Extreme ‘relaunch’. Being that the numbering wasn’t starting over at #1, would that mean I’d need to know previous history? Would this comic…