Advance Review: Devouring A Visual Smorgasbord In `Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel To Be Kin’ #5
Everything you need to understand Geof Darrow’s work can be found on the first panel of the first page of
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Advance Review: Set Phasers To Fun In `Star Trek: Lower Decks’ #1
The success of the streaming series Star Trek: Lower Decks caught many by surprise. After all, the Star Trek franchise
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Advance Review: The Predictable Truth Slowly Emerges In `Seven Sons’ #4
After three issues of introducing readers up a country as obsessed with the second coming of Christ as it is
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Advance Review: Zeus Is Loose In `There’s Something Wrong With Patrick Todd’ #3
If ordinary people are judged based on the company they keep, then comic book heroes are only as good as
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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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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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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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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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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: ‘Ghost Planet’ One-Shots It
The main cover is by artist/letterer Sean Von Gorman and colorist Omar Estevez. It features an ominous atmosphere thanks to
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Advance Review: ‘Mega Centurions: Mega No More’ #2 Dips Quality
Artist Dexter Wee does a mostly great job with the interiors. However, Wee uses an unnecessary and jarring dutch angle
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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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Advance Review: `Time Before Time’ #15 Provides A Good Jumping-On Point
All comic books series run the risk of losing their audience after so many issues. For independent creator-owned books that
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Advance Review: The Monster To The Rescue In `Frankenstein: New World’ #1
When the world goes to pot, turn to Frankenstein. The venerable monster returns to the Mignolaverse, this time as its
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Advance Review: Struggles Bring Out The Best In `That Texas Blood’ #16
After more than a dozen issues of That Texas Blood, readers have had the opportunity to learn more about Ambrose
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