Advance Review: Confronting The Six(?) Deadly Sins In ‘Exorcists Never Die’ TPB
Greed is a dragon protecting its hoard of gold and riches. Gluttony is a massive mound of revolting flesh. Envy
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Review: ‘Star Trek: Holo-Ween’ #2 Is An Unintentional Nightmare
Talk about a nightmare scenario. The Enterprise is being terrorized by the spirit of Jack the Ripper that has become
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Advance Review: The Suspense Never Lets Up In ‘Blood Commandment’ #1
The tension in Blood Commandment #1 is palpable from the first page all the way to the end. It starts
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Advance Review: An Unwanted Chase Is On In ‘Dark Ride’ Vol. 2 TPB
At the end of its first several issues, Dark Ride was guaranteed to deliver a shocker. Whether it was the
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Advance Review: Oeming And Soma Are The Real Dons In ‘Murder Inc.: Jagger Rose’ #6
On the surface, the final issue of Murder Inc.: Jagger Rose is about a takeover of the five mafia families
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Review: It’s Race Time In ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Scorpius Run’ #2
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Scorpius Run pits the Enterprise crew against other starships in the race of
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Review: Phillips Paints The Old West Red In ‘The Enfield Gang Massacre’ #3
Apparently the West was won with blood. A lot of blood. Fortunately, for readers of The Enfield Gang Massacre, that
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Advance Review: ‘Phantom Road’ TP Vol. 1 Starts In Neutral Then Accelerates
With a creative team as talented as Jeff Lemire and Gabriel H. Walta, you would think that Phantom Road would
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Advance Review — ‘Black Hammer: The End’ #2 Unleashes Multiversal Madness
If you have to tell tired stories about the multiverse, it’s best to really lean into them. That’s the approach
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Advance Review: Pondering What’s Next In ‘Midlife (Or How To Hero At Fifty!)’ #1
For many of us, turning 50 is a momentous – and pretty scary – occasion. It unofficially marks the beginning
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Advance Review: ‘A Haunted Girl’ #1 Helps Its Writers To Exorcise Their Demons
For writers, the art of writing goes far beyond mere communications. It’s a way of coping with an often cruel
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Review: ‘Fishflies’ #2 Explores Childlike Innocence
A child’s innocence is ripe with potential for storytellers. Jeff Lemire, in particular, uses kids to help introduce the reader
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Review: ‘Something Is Killing The Children’ #33 Starts To Return To Form
It’s taken way too long, but in the latest issue of Something is Killing the Children reminds us why we
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Advance Review: ‘Ice Cream Man’ Vol. 9 Shifts From Horror To The Human Condition
From a couple of hobos riding the rails to a man willing to be swallowed up by a whale to
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Advance Review — ‘Bone Orchard: Tenement’ #4 Is A Mystery Wrapped Inside A Conundrum
Every once in a while, a comic book comes along that is so intentionally confusing yet fascinating that you walk
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Advance Review: ‘Time Before Time’ #27 Builds Toward The Series’ Climax
When it comes to time travel, things can get confusing. In Time Before Time, with multiple characters in multiple era
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Advance Review: ‘TerrorWar’ #6 Takes A Long Time To Tell A Short Story
To say that things aren’t quite right in Blue City would be something of an understatement. After all, for years,
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Advance Review — ‘Stranger Things: Tales From Hawkins’ #4 Tells An Atypical Story
Stranger Things is not known for treating its secondary characters very well. (Justice for Barb, anyone?) So when Dark Horse
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Advance Review — Beware The Holodeck (And The Dialogue) In ‘Star Trek: Holo-Ween’ #1
Ah, the legendary Star Trek holodeck – where an untold number of plot points are born and routine leisure activities
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Advance Review — ‘Star Trek: Resurgence’ TPB Is Anything But
With the success of new streaming series like Star Trek: Lower Decks and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Star Trek
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Advance Review — ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture – Echoes’ #5 Gets Too Cutesy
While Spock never took the infamous Kobayashi Maru test, in the final issue of the Star Trek: The Motion Picture
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Advance Review: ‘Swallower Of Shades’ #1 Leaves Readers Hanging
From That Texas Blood to Canary, comics books that mix Westerns with horror have grown in popularity lately. A new
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Advance Review: ‘Junior Baker The Righteous Faker’ #1 Is A Visual Extravaganza
Artist Ryan Quackenbush’s name doesn’t appear on today’s lists of top talent in the comic book industry. But after his
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Advance Review – Soma’s Colors Shine Brightly In ‘Murder Inc.: Jagger Rose’ #5
Like letterers, comic book colorists are often overlooked by readers (and reviewers) unless they make a questionable creative decision that
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Advance Review: A High-Flying Conclusion In ‘Barnstormers’ #3
From its outset, Barnstormers has been about three characters. While the initial focus has been on the two high-flying criminals
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Advance Review: Face To Face With The Devil In ‘Dark Ride’ #8
They don’t call him Danny D. Evil for nothing. The mascot of the amusement park Devil Land takes center stage
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Advance Review: ‘Torrent’ Vol. 1 TPB Tells A Familiar, But Enjoyable, Revenge Story
Michelle Metcalf starts off Torrent at the top of the world. She’s a superhero named Crackerjack who seems to be
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Advance Review: ‘The Enfield Gang Massacre’ #2 Is Not Your Typical Western
No one is going to complain that there isn’t enough action in the latest chapter of The Enfield Gang Massacre.
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Advance Review: The End Becomes The Beginning In ‘Swan Songs’ #3
What happens when the end becomes the beginning? Do Adam and Even get to live in Eden for a time?
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Advance Review: Great Artwork Saves `Exorcists Never Die’ #6
Sebastian Piriz has literally been through hell and back during Exorcists Never Die – and he has taken his readers
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Advance Review: Struggling For Answers In ‘Hexagon Bridge’ #1
If the point of the first chapter in a limited series is to get you curious enough to buy the
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