• Bluewater Productions is headlining a new round of controversy that they’ve since responded to with many words regarding how their talent is and isn’t paid. Comics Worth Reading has responded with a pledge to no longer cover their books, and my friend Chris Ward entered the conversation in the comment thread there. (His Obama … Read moreLink Sausage: 1/26/2010
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
• Sad news this week as the Poe Toaster failed to show up at Edgar Allan Poe’s grave in Baltimore, breaking a 60-year tradition. • I must have missed this when it was popular, but someone spliced together scenes from A Goofy Movie to make it look like David Lynch was the director. • Firearms … Read moreLink Sausage: 1/19/2010
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