I’ve generally tried to organize the weekly columns around some sort of theme, but sometimes themes just serve to hide the variety and depth of the comics world (whatever country it might be from). So, this week, I picked three books with nothing at all in common (except a Japanese origin), just because: Nightmares for…
This is the last segment in this month long saga. If you are anything like me, you are sick of this. I mean four weeks of me reliving history is a bit much even for a guy who LOVES history. To that point, all I watch on TV is All My Children (the greatest show…
That’s how creator James Watson describes his damsel in distress heroine, Paula Peril, who is already making her way from the indy comic series to live action films, as you can see here We cover the origins of Ms Peril, plus: Spider-Man sells out in less than 24 hours Virgin heads west ABC welcomes Nathan…
Apparently the end of August has been designated as catch up week, at least in the land of comics and DVDs. Over the next few days, you have the opportunity to jump into a number of critically acclaimed series, contained in trade collections or DVD sets . We lay them all out for you, plus:…
The past few months have brought a swell of attention to indie comics writer Elizabeth Genco, who scored a coup by having a story included in the Tori Amos Comic Book Tattoo collection from Image Comics, and then her graphic novel Blue — a modernization of the Bluebeard legend — sold well in part thanks…
Lately, my wife Linda and I have been watching the Maverick reruns on one of the many Starz channels IDW’s owners foists upon our cable system. Maverick was one of the very few live-action teevee shows I enjoyed as a kid, and I’m amazed to discover that it is actually even better than I remembered…
By my count, there are four good reasons to buy [[[The Sandman Presents: The Dead Boy Detectives]]], now out from Vertigo. First, it’s cheap, at a slight $12.99 for some 100 pages of comics. Second, it’s a heckuva good mystery yarn with plenty of occult elements. Third, it’s part of The Sandman world, and there…
This is just one of the secrets we uncover as we talk to the people who move the coolest things on the planet, Heritage Auctions, plus: The latest on the Watchmen battle More Secret Invasion blow outs Stargate:Atlantis goodbye and hello So dig in your closet, find some old comics you want to sell and…
Poking through the stack of manga to be reviewed, earlier this week, I noticed several books featuring characters with wings of one kind or another. Quick to sense a theme, I dragged them together, and here they are: Koi Cupid, Vol. 1 By Mia Ikumi Broccoli, April 2008, $9.99 Koi Cupid is an all-ages series…
Between now and this year’s Christmas Special, you might be blessed with a Doctor Who RPG, the first in over 15 years. We’ve got the details, plus: Voltron shuffles toward the screen A big month in the comic stores for Secret Invasion and Batman John McCain said what about D&D? And we turn you on…
There’s a lot of buzz on the Internet this last week stemming from new Image partner Robert Kirkman’s video-taped manifesto calling for … well, I’m not exactly certain what he called for. A subsequent article/interview on Newsarama said it was “a call to arms for fellow creators to focus solely on their original stories, instead of…
Red Colored Elegy By Seiichi Hayashi Drawn & Quarterly, July 2008, $24.95 [[[Red Colored Elegy]]] is like no other manga you’ve ever seen, a blast of pop art- and film-inspired storytelling from 1971 that was hugely influential to a generation of Japanese youth but has never been published in English until now. It’s like the…
