The Beauty #1 review What if beauty was a disease? What if catching that disease meant having sex with an attractive person? Would you contract a sexually transmitted disease just to become "beautiful"? The Beauty #1 from Image Comics dives directly into these questions. The Beauty #1 is an intriguing story from Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley that follows two detectives … [Read more...]
We Stand on Guard #1. Defend the North
We Stand on Guard #1 review What better way to celebrate the 4th of July than writing a review about our invasion of Canada in the year 2112. I'm of course talking about Brian K. Vaughan and Steve Kroce's We Stand on Guard from Image Comics. We Stand on Guard #1 starts off with a bang, or with many many bombs exploding over Canadian territorial soil in retaliation to a … [Read more...]
Airboy #1. May Your Conscience Be Your Guide.
Airboy #1 review Airboy, the 4 part mini-series written by James Robinson, penciled by Greg Hinkle and published by Image. That was the easy part of this whole review, the rest of it, well, it's hard to explain. Bringing back a hero from the Golden Age of comics always sounds like a good idea, "sounds" like a good idea, I'll tell you in my experience it never turns out real … [Read more...]
Spawn #250 and Al Simmons Resurrection
Spawn #250 review Ah yes, Spawn, my childhood's coming back in view already, the book that didn't start it all but one I accepted as my favorite. I was nine or 10, those were better times. So Spawn #250 and Spawn: Resurrection are out, did you know that? Of course you did, it was kind of a big deal, but did you understand the point of having a one-shot Spawn: Resurrection? Did … [Read more...]
Descender #1. Outlaw Android.
Descender #1 review A united galaxy of over 6 million citizens in harmony with AI is met by Galactus size alien robots who aren't exactly there to celebrate coexistence. As a reactive species, humans outlaw androids for a decade, but one somehow manages to survive, and thus the continuing struggles of androids and humans begins in Descender #1. Image Comics describes … [Read more...]
Nameless #1. Zirom Trian Ipam Ipamis.
Nameless #1 review Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham team up again for something a little more cryptic and messed up than the Batman and Robin we've seen in the past. Nameless #1 explores the dark worlds of the occult and the doomed distant future. "Nameless", while he points out is still a name, has the unique ability to transcend dream states. This makes him particularly … [Read more...]
Bitch Planet #1. Caged and Enraged!
Bitch Planet #1 Bring on the sexploitation plots of the 60's and 70's in Kelly Sue's latest book, Bitch Planet #1. I love almost all of Kelly Sue DeConnick's work, from Ghost to Captain Marvel she's always impressive, but I like to compare her also to Maude Lebowski with her work being strongly vaginal. Bitch Planet #1 does have some feminist undertones and it's definitely … [Read more...]