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Jonas hasn't had the easiest eighth grade year. He just lost his mother in a house fire. His father won't tell him which high school he'll be going to. And he spends most of his time doodling and daydreaming when he should be doing schoolwork. But his talent for imagination may come in handy when he finds himself on a journey through a magic mirror. More »
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When an older woman becomes pregnant, there are always a lot of concerns. Will the baby be born healthy? Will the labor be difficult? In Ryan Andrews' short and sweet webcomic Sarah and the Seed, a woman's pregnancy results in something her husband never thought to worry about: a giant seed. More »
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Have you ever met a guy who embodies darkness? A man whose shirt is always half unbuttoned, whose disheveled hair blows in the nonexistent wind, and who is accompanied by a melodramatic caption box? A fellow whose vampire-esque brooding has women flinging themselves at him from halfway across the block? Jonas is just such a person — and his roommate is sick of it. More »
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Even in post-apocalyptic world where men can transform into human resources bears and brain slugs can edit out disturbing memories, you can't escape the mindfuck that is office politics. In the webcomic adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's darkly comic story The Situation, a lowly fish designer is thrust into a world of traitorous brain-linking coworkers and steampunk automaton managers who just want his love. More »
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If young adult novels teach us anything, it's that the fated hero who battles back evil will be a child with a pure heart. Given that those meddling kids are always thwarting their plans for world domination, wouldn't it be easier if those would-be world conquerors loaded the dice of fate and ensured that someone less than worthy got the mark of destiny? Maybe an adult who care more about models and bottles than the wonders of magic? More »
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If he could, would Hugh Hefner upload his consciousness into the Playboy Mansion, and live out the rest of eternity as the pleasure palace of his own creation? In Tom Walker's webcomic, SS Myra, the wealthy hedonist Myra does just that — except her pleasure palace is her spaceship, a spacefaring wonderland filled with talking sex toys and spunk-eating plants. But the SS Myra's new owners are Myra's worst nightmare: a pair of newlyweds who were planning to spend their honeymoon in the missionary position. More »
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In the early 1980s, way before he was famous for absolutely anything, Alan Moore was tapped to pen a series of science fiction strips for the now-venerable British comic mag 2000 AD. Dubbed Future Shocks, these 2000 AD staples were one-and-done stories with diabolical twist endings and a quirky cast of aliens, time travelers, and ill-mannered mutants. More »
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After five or so years of gestation, the graphic novel that was once titled Holy Terror, Batman! is finally in stores. Was it worth the wait? Goodness, no. More »
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It's the final week of the DC relaunch! What's in store for you? Reptiloid erotica, a groovy vampire book, and The Flash looking dapper. Let's tier these suckers — comics will be judged on quality, overall accessibility, and whether or not I fell asleep midway through reading. More »
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In this week's offerings from DC, the clear winners were two of the Big Three. And on an unrelated note, Catwoman's rack. More »
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We're into the second week of the DC relaunch! In these offerings, the DC Universe's supporting cast won the day. More »
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We've already crowned Animal Man as the best thing to come out of the DC relaunch, but what about the other twelve titles from last week? More »
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Last Wednesday, DC's fired off its first salvo of relaunched first issues. Of the thirteen rebooted books, some worked, a bunch didn't, and one debut absolutely knocked it out of the park. That comic was Jeff Lemire's and Travel Foreman's superhero-horror yarn Animal Man. More »
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Brian Ralph's graphic novel Daybreak takes a phenomenological approach to survivalist horror. Like the participant in a pick-a-path novel, the reader is abruptly plopped down in the middle of a garbage-strewn hellhole. More »
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Kagan McLeod's new graphic novel Infinite Kung Fu seemingly occupies the nexus of every martial arts film ever made. There are hyper-stylized wuxia techniques, unbeatable Shaolin monks (and their giant training robots), and a town out of a 1970s blaxploitation flick anachronistically plopped down in an ancient China overrun by the walking dead. More »
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century - 1969 sees Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's Britannic literary superteam in Love Generation London, where Aleister Crowley analogue Oliver Haddo conspires with Terner Purple, a thinly veiled reference to Mick Jagger's role in the rock-and-roll drama Performance. More »
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SVK is the latest comic collaboration by Warren Ellis and artist Matt "D'Israeli" Brooker, who previously worked together on the cyberpunkish Lazarus Churchyard. This one-shot comic has been gaining press for a totally unabashed gimmick: it comes packaged with a handheld UV light device that allows the reader to discover hidden dialogue bubbles rendered in invisible ink. More »
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How do you wrap a cohesive plot around Godzilla? IDW proves your best bet is to not even try – just let the monsters trash the world and see how the humans cope with the carnage. The new Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters comic series is pure monster mayhem. More »
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In Oni Press' graphic novel The Tooth, a massive mystical tooth takes up residence in a poor sap's mouth and leaps out only to eviscerate criminals. Sounds like a straightforward tale, but it's not that simple. More »
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To capitalize on the new Thor flick, Marvel recently released a $125, 1192-page, and approximately 8-pound omnibus of Walter Simonson's 1983-1987 run on The Mighty Thor. Is it worth the ducats? Forsooth, ye varlet. Forsooth. More »
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J. Michael Straczynski's new hardcover graphic novel Superman: Earth One portrays Superman as an extraterrestrial who forces himself to masquerade as a human twentysomething. Here's our review and interview with DC Comics co-publisher Dan DiDio. More »
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In upcoming miniseries Terminator 1984, Sarah Connor's just destroyed the time-traveling cyborg that's ruined her week, but the story doesn't end there. No, she must now contend with a shocking revelation from Kyle Reese's comrade-in-arms, Ben. Here's our spoiler-free review. More »
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Reviewing Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour is difficult given that the SP sextology's one of most "either-you-get-it-or-you-don't" series I've encountered. Which is a pity, as it's a pop gem and Scott's such an intriguingly crappy protagonist. More »
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Lucid, an urban fantasy miniseries from writer Michael McMillian (True Blood) and editor Zachary Quinto, is an enjoyable yarn about a covert agency of magicians employed by Uncle Sam. Lucid contains some savvy worldbuilding, but its generic protagonist isn't that magical. More »
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I recently perused the Absolute editions of Warren Ellis' seminal shared universe comic series Planetary all in one sitting. And you know what? For as much as Ellis loves penning curmudgeons, the series is a panacea for doom'n'gloom superheroics. More »
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This week, Identity Crisis and Justice League writer Brad Meltzer takes over the Buffy The Vampire Slayer comic, bringing a more superheroic tone. Why does it make the book the best it's been in years? Here's our spoiler-free take. More »
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Grant Morrison's new series Joe The Barbarian may be about the power of imagination, but it's the realism that artists Sean Murphy and Dave Stewart bring to it that makes it such a magical reading experience. Spoilers ahead. More »
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Imagine a place filled with giant robot pizza boys, cardboard time machines, hideously mutated crime-fighting mole rats, and apocalyptic destruction. That place is the Perry Bible Fellowship, and now you can visit it with The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack. More »
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The first issue of Dynamite Entertainment's Buck Rogers promises a potentially bright future ahead... as long as we can all get past the difficult launch. Spoilers (and deadly bears) ahead! More »
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