Advanced Review: It’s a Good Day to Die in `Star Trek: Klingons’ One-Shot
The Klingons of Star Trek have consistently been the franchise’s most intriguing characters. Introduced in the Cold War-era original series,
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Author: Tom Smithyman
Advance Review: Unconnected Story Lines Bog Down `Swamp Dogs: House Of Crows’ #2
Swamp Dogs: House of Crows #2 is your typical road trip, lesbian romance, zombie horror. And yet weaving those seemingly
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Advance Review: `Decorum’ Hardcover Showcases Artist Mike Huddleston’s Amazing Work
When Image Comics’ Decorum #1 premiered in early 2020, it instantly sold out at local comic shops. Then the pandemic
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Advance Review: The Heat is On in `78 MPH’ #1
Talk about global warming! 78 MPH, the latest series from Red 5 Comics, deals with a crazy post-apocalyptic future straight
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Advance Review: Friendship Rules In Sina Grace’s ‘Rockstar And Softboy’
Sina Grace’s latest story, Rockstar and Softboy defies genres as easily as it defies explanation. Part buddy story, part mythical
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Advance Review: Truth is in the Eye of the Beholder in `Fictionauts’ #1
Imagine Moby Dick concluding with Ahab killing the whale, or MacBeth having a happy ending or an episode of The
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Advance Review: `Rogue Sun’ #1 Is Not Your Father’s Superhero Story
If you’re looking for a dynamic opening to a comic book series, Rogue Sun delivers. The opening pages pit the
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Advance Review: Silence is Golden in `Step By Bloody Step’ #1
It would be easy to say that Si Spurrier, the writer of Step By Bloody Step #1 left all the
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Rich Douek Opens Up About ‘Sea Of Sorrows,’ Releasing This Week In TPB
Sea of Sorrows follows the crew of the appropriately named SS Vagabond, which is set on plundering a sunken U-boat and
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Advance Review: `Speed Republic’ #1 Stalls From the Start
It is counterintuitive for a story called Speed Republic to get off to a slow start. Unfortunately, the latest title
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Three Years Later, Vaughan and Staples Shine in `Saga’ #55
Three years in comic book continuity can be a lifetime. Characters are created, killed and are resurrected. Love is sought,
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An Interview With `Blood On Sunset’ Writer Mark D’Anna
Blood on Sunset is a compelling mix of genres – a vampire tale set in 1940s Los Angeles against the
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Advance Review: Exploring the Power of Words In `Ice Cream Man’ #28
What is truth? Is it the power to move mountains or a sense of inner peace gained from understanding how
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Advance Review: Too Much Blood-Sucking Exposition In ‘Blood on Sunset’ #2
After introducing readers to vampire-infested 1940s Los Angeles in a strong first issue of Blood on Sunset, the second installment
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