Advance Review: Revisiting A Really Bad Year In `The Silver Coin’ #14
For many people, 2020 was the year from hell. The pandemic, the toilet paper shortage, the civil unrest following the
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Author: Tom Smithyman
The Eyes Have It: An Interview With `The Silver Coin’ #14 Writer Pornsak Pichetshote
Multiple Eisner Award-nominee Pornsak Pichetshote, known for his work on The Good Asian, Daytripper and The Unwritten, recently joined the
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Exploring Artificial Intelligence and Art: Dave McKean Talks ‘Prompt’
From his collaborations with Neil Gaiman on The Sandman and Violent Cases to his seminal work painting 120 pages for
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Advance Review: Sending Demons Back To Hell With A Song In `The Roadie’ #1
Roadies have a lot of responsibilities – from helping to set up concert venues to prepping the musicians’ instruments. Fighting
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Advance Review: Celebrating The Final Frontier In `Star Trek’ #400
From a new starship captain’s first moments in the center chair, to Miles O’Brien’s early conflict with the Cardassians, to
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Advance Review: Deanna Schemes And Plots In `Star Trek– The Mirror War – Troi’
The real fun in Star Trek’s mirror universe is getting to see normally well-behaved and predictable characters act like they
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Advance Review: Targeting Our Gun-Obsessed Culture In `Survival Street’ #2
Popular media’s use of thinly veiled references to satirize or comment on the real world is a tried-and-true storytelling technique.
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An Interview With `The Roadie’ Writer Tim Seeley
In Tim Seeley’s newest series, The Roadie, long-time heavy metal band stagehand Joe D. gets pulled back to his old
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Advance Review: `That Texas Blood’ #17 Delivers A Terrific Tale Of Humanity And Suspense
No capes. No superpowers. No problem. Midway through its third story arc, That Texas Blood continues to deliver a nuanced,
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Advance Review: Returning To Simpler Storytelling In `Time Before Time’ #16
Confusing a reader is a common storytelling technique. Multiple plot lines and characters with mysterious pasts that are slowly revealed
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Advance Review: Art Imitates Life In `The Ward’ #4
A highly infectious disease ravages the population. Hospitals are overwhelmed. Healthcare workers are at their breaking point. Meanwhile xenophobia runs
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An Interview With `Unbreakable Red Sonja’ Writer Jim Zub
Writer Jim Zub returns to his sword and sorcery roots in the upcoming Unbreakable Red Sonja, which will hit comic
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Advance Review: Revisiting Jean-Luc’s First Command In `Star Trek: Picard – Stargazer’ #1
For Jean-Luc Picard, before there was the USS Enterprise, there was the USS Stargazer. Picard’s first command, years before he
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Talking With Ryan Stegman About ‘Vanish,’ His New Creator-Owned Series With Donny Cates
After finding phenomenal success drawing Venom, artist Ryan Stegman re-teams with writer Donny Cates on a new creator-owned series Vanish.
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Advance Review: ‘The Walking Dead’ Meets ‘Dungeons And Dragons’ In `Dead Kingdom’ #1
The zombie apocalypse has invaded nearly every aspect of our culture, from video games to movies to television’s The Walking
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Advance Review: It All Starts And Stops With Benjamin Morse In `August: Purgatory Underground’ #2
There’s having creative control over a project, and then there’s Benjamin Morse. Morse is not only writing and drawing the
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Advance Review: Masterful Storytelling In `Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel To Be Kin’ #4
Changing direction in the middle of any narrative is a difficult task. In comic books, it typically results in an
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Advance Review: The Sins Of The Father Dominate `Public Domain’ #3
When adult children make serious mistakes with their lives, who is to blame? Is it the parents who may have
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Advance Review: Touched By An Angel In `Sins Of The Black Flamingo’ #3
What is a recently resurrected atheist to do when encountering an angel? Chances are, your first guess wasn’t to sleep
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Advance Review: Family Matters In `Stranger Things: Kamchatka’ #4
The bonds that connect family members some of the strongest, most emotional motivational devices in storytelling. When a story attempts
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Advance Review: D-Listers Save The Day In `Minor Threats’ #1
For every Joker and Thanos, there is a Condiment King and Stilt-Man. These D-list villains pose a minor threat to
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Advance Review: `Lower Your Sights’ Raises Money for Ukraine’s Children
A young Ukrainian refugee teaches her mother a lesson in faith. A letter carrier delivers devastating news from the battlefield,
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Advance Review: (Sort Of) Concluding `Star Trek: The Mirror War’ #8
When is an ending not an ending? After a year-long story composed of nine issues (including an issue #0) and
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Advance Review: Shifting The Nature Of Unreality In `Parasomnia: The Dreaming God’ #1
Dreams can morph in the most unexpected ways. Settings change in an instant. Characters appear and disappear. Suddenly you can
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Advance Review: Searching For The Truth In `Seven Sons’ #3
Fanatical religion and truth don’t always go hand in hand. But when a would-be messiah starts a search for the
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Advance Review: Dialing Up The Gore In `The Silver Coin’ #13
All comic book gore is not created equal. There’s the more ‘run-of-the-mill gore’ of seeing someone’s head cut off, or
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Advance Review: Death Haunts The Vampires In `Blood Stained Teeth #5
Death and vampires go together like politicians and corruption. But it’s usually the vampires doing the killing, not the dying.
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An Interview With `Shock Shop’ Writer Cullen Bunn
Cullen Bunn, known for writing such horror stories as Harrow County, The Last Book You’ll Ever Read and The Damned,
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Review: Tension Abounds In `There’s Something Wrong With Patrick Todd’ #2
Patrick Todd is not having a good day. His mom is sick, and he’s been using his mind control powers
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Advance Review: Getting Some Badly Needed Answers In `Astronaut Down’ #3
Writing a monthly comic book is an exercise in balance. Write too much action, and you run the risk confusing
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Advance Review: Artist Andres Ponce Delivers in `The Ward’ #3
Nothing like a cave-in to force a little exposition. That’s the situation in The Ward’s third installment, as protagonist Natalie
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