I’m sure this will sound foreign to a lot of readers, but Solomon Kane: Death’s Black Riders #1 read like the opening half hour of a GURPS quest, which is to say the story style will be readily digestible and recognizable to the seasoned fantasy reader. It’s a dark and violent first issue for this … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #70: ‘Solomon Kane: Death’s Black Riders’ #1
The way Jeff Smith puts a book together makes the process feel so effortless from the reader’s seat. Rasl #6 stars off on an odd note. You almost get the sensation that you accidentally bought Smith’s condensed biography of Nikola Tesla with Rasl #6. Literally, the historical narrative he offers at first feels slightly disjointed … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #69: ‘Rasl’ #6
At nine pages of story with a some script pages from Alan Moore’s August 2010-launching series from Avatar, the Neonomicon Hornbook did make me crunch my forehead for a few seconds before laying down the $1.99 in the same stack of bills that bought Joe the Barbarian #1 for a buck, but I really do … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #68: ‘Neonomicon Hornbook’
Well, one issue into Grant Morrison and Sean Murphy’s Joe the Barbarian #1 I neither thought it was as deeply constructed as David Brothers over at Comics Alliance concluded or as cataclysmically phoned in as MarkAndrew over at CBR articulated. Instead, I think I’m somewhere in the middle and of the mind that the story … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #67: ‘Joe the Barbarian’ #1
I actually had to sit on this one for a couple of days to digest as the final scene is easily the most disturbing sequence that King City has thrown at me thus far. From the beginning of Pete’s storyline it was implied that his neck-horned employers had nefarious plans for his sea monkey girlpal, … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #66: ‘King City’ #4
There are so many artists in comics who have no idea how to use negative space and abuse the privilege without a second thought. Thankfully, Brandon Graham is not one of these artists, and King City #3 should be a lesson to any offenders out there on how to use places with no ink effectively. … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #65: ‘King City’ #3
As of the end of issue #2, King City has a solid drumbeat going, introducing the story piecemeal and not keeping any type of pacing that feels it needs any adherence to the issue so much as each issue just turns on the faucet and lets out a little more story. Joe’s ex-girlfriend Anna gets … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #64: ‘King City’ #2
I picked this issue up eons ago — not during its original printing, but when Image Comics began reprinting the series. Somehow, I managed to never come into contact with the next three issues until a couple of weeks ago at Chicago Comics, though, so expect to see a few King City posts pop up … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #63: ‘King City’ #1
Eric Powell really puts a lot of creators — writers and artists alike — to shame with his ability to keep his work pared down but constantly surprising and effective. The movement and characterizations in Chimichanga #1 had all the energy of a Steamboat Willie-era Disney cartoon and all the horrific nuances of a Mark … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #62: ‘Chimichanga’ #1
So story true here, I admit to being completely ignorant of this book beyond the title and creators, knowing that based on Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon’s names being on the cover I would need to read it. I just never read past the headlines to find out what it was about. Thus occurred my … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #61: ‘Daytripper’ #1