Advanced Review — Darrow Raises Sophomoric Humor To New Heights In ‘The Shaolin Cowboy: Staying A.I.Live’ #2
There’s a pretty simple test to know whether you would like Geof Darrow’s approach to storytelling. Read the opening pages of the
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Advance Review: Darrow Returns True To Form In ‘The Shaolin Cowboy: Staying A.I.Live’ #1
Not many writers can pull off a damning indictment of modern times — ranging from ICE detentions to the rise
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Something For The Weekend: Your Regular Dose Of Popular Posts
The sun’s out, and it’s Free Comic Book Day. I’ve already been to my local store, World’s Apart in Birmingham,
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LCCAF 26: He Fights Monsters And Crap — Discussing ‘Shaolin Cowboy: Staying A.I.Live’ With Creator Geof Darrow
You can’t look at a piece of writing or art and a business process and not wonder if it’s been
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NYCC 2024: The Batman Original Art Collection Grows Unexpectedly Larger
At every con, I manage to add to my collection of (mostly) Batman pieces. The 2024 edition of New York
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Mecha-Hellboy Meets Mega-Monsters This Fall In ‘Giant Robot Hellboy’
Welcome to the table, I like giant robots and I like Hellboy. So when I got an email that said…
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Lake Como Comic Arts Festival 2023 – The Ultimate Exclusive Con Experience
There are comic-cons. There are comic art shows. And then there is the Lake Como Comic Arts Festival. Known as
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Advance Review: `Don’t Spit In The Wind’ #2 Relies Heavily On Its Visuals
Sometime the visuals alone are enough to get you through a comic book. In the case of Don’t Spit in
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Review: The Whole Hog In `Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel To Be Kin’ #7
Geof Darrow doesn’t really do subtle. Whether it’s his unique, over-the-top visual style or his witty, pull-no-punches scripts, Darrow is
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Advance Review: `Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to be Kin’ #6 Starts with a Bang
If the goal of an opening splash page is to set the tone for the rest of an issues, then
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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: 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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Review: `The Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel To Be Kin’ #3 Is Pure Geof Darrow
Only Geof Darrow. Only a mind a wickedly and wonderfully demented as Darrow’s could pull off something like Shaolin Cowboy
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Advance Review: It’s a Battle Royale in `Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to be Kin’ #2
Leave it to a creative genius like Geof Darrow to combine a talking baby Komodo dragon, a martial arts-trained cowboy
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Advance Review: Embracing The Visual Extravaganza Of `The Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to be Kin’ #1
Geof Darrow’s work is always something to behold. Known for his visual collaborations with Frank Miller in Hard Boiled and
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Dark Horse To Publish Geof Darrow’s ‘Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel To Be Kin’
This year, Dark Horse Comics will publish Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to Be Kin, an all-new, seven part comic book series
Read moreKickstarting Comics: Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month With This New Take On ‘The Monkey King’ Saga
This May sees the comic book world appreciate and celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with a variety of
Read morePreview: ‘Chaos Agent’ Is A Splatterpunk Successor To ‘Hard Boiled’
“Philip Blank is the top agent for the scifi spy organization W.O.R.L.D.E., keeping capitalism safe from aliens, time travellers, and
Read moreComics That Should Be Adapted Into Animated Films By Blur Studios
After delivering an animated anthology that broke all the rules, Blur Studios showed what they were capable of. That got
Read moreComicon’s 7 Best Comic Artists Of 2018
Welcome to Comicon.com’s Best of the Year Awards, gathering the best comics and comics talent of 2018. This year we
Read moreKickstarting Comics & Culture: Interviewing IDW’s Dirk Wood On Full Bleed Volume 3
I think you’ve got to admire any publishing company still trying to keep the medium of print alive and robust,
Read more‘Where We Live’ Delivers Eye-Opening Stories For A Good Cause
On October 1, 2017, Las Vegas, Nevada suffered the worst mass shooting in modern American history, resulting in 58 deaths
Read moreSwag! The C2E2 Special Geof Darrow Edition
I’m way behind on posting my swag shots, partly because of luggage packing and delayed flights, partly due to the
Read moreClassic Shaolin Cowboy Series ‘Start Trek’ Gets Collected By Dark Horse
We’ve been in a bumper season of Geof Darrow’s work, with a new series of Shaolin Cowboy in 2017 from
Read moreCrafting A ‘Super-Violent’ Showdown – Conversations With Geof Darrow Part 3
This week you’ll find the glorious hardback collection of The Shaolin Cowboy: Who’ll Stop The Reign? in shops, and have
Read moreOur World Is A Three-Inch Screen – Conversations With Geof Darrow Part 2
Towards the end of this month of October, the hardback edition of The Shaolin Cowboy: Who’ll Stop The Reign? arrives
Read moreGeof Darrow And 3A Release Shaolin Cowboy 1/6 Scale Figure Next Week
Folks. Next week is going to be a very good week. The 1/6 scale, masterfully detailed Shaolin Cowboy figure announced
Read more‘Everything’s A Western Anyway’ – Conversations With Geof Darrow Part 1
The past few months have been the season of Geof Darrow for comics fans, with the release of the four
Read moreCelebrating Comic Artists In Their Own Time – Lead Poisoning: The Pencil Art Of Geof Darrow
I’m not an expert on the work of Geof Darrow, but increasingly you can see his influence on a
Read moreThe Path Always Ends Here – Shaolin Cowboy: ‘Who’ll Stop The Reign?’ Concludes
Four issues, hundreds if not thousands of signs and ads, hundreds of bodies for sure, and as many animals
Read more‘Everything From Sharp Edged Weapons To Social Media’ In Shaolin Cowboy: Who’ll Stop The Reign
By Hannah Means-Shannon The much-anticipated return of Shaolin Cowboy with “Who’ll Stop The Reign” has a nice ambiguity in
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