Tag: Comics

When I started reading Rob Harrell’s Monster on the Hill, I definitely expected a lighthearted, childlike story; a town terrorized by Rayburn, a monster with chicken legs, a pig butt…

Injection, the newest series by Eagle Award-winner Warren Ellis, is the story of five crazy people poisoning the entire 21st century to the point that reality is decaying and the…

Everyone has an opinion about the sudden increase in female and otherwise non-cismale readership in comics, and there is nothing more annoying than a person with an opinion. Especially an…

Without a doubt, RunLoveKill would be perfect as a movie. Jon Tsuei and Eric Canete really managed to make a comic that evokes what’s best about both mediums. The pacing and…

What happens in the generational divide between superheroes and their progenies? That’s exactly what the comic books Jupiter’s Legacy and Jupiter’s Circle are about. The first volume of Jupiter’s Legacy…

As much as I hate the word psychological as a way to describe writing (as if anything made by humans can be devoid of psychology), Becky Cloonan’s Southern Cross comic…

Meredith McClaren’s series Hinges started its life on Kickstarter, where the first book got funding to be brought into the physical world in late May of 2013. Now the book,…

Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky’s Sex Criminals has finally come out with its second volume, aptly titled Two Worlds, One Cop, and it’s as perfect as the last one. Sex…

It’s been a long time since I’ve opened up a book to find a map in the front—and a fictional map, instead of some sketch of the migration of the…

Kieron Gillen, writer of the Iron Man series “Believe,” is even better when writing original fiction. The Wicked + The Divine is our world, but one in which every 90…

Ted Naifeh’s Princess Ugg is a ridiculous delight and a real breath of fresh air. In Princess Ugg, Princess Ulga of the highlands Grimmeria and sole child of the king,…