Star Trek: Deep Space Nine OmnibusBy Various384 pages/IDW Publishing/$24.99 While Star Trek: Deep Space Nine may never achieve the commercial success of Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation, it is, for many, the best of the many series. Produced while the focus was on TNG and the development of Voyager, it allowed the…
You gotta love Warner Archive. They find interesting, thematically linked titles and place them together on an affordable Blu-ray for fans and collectors alike. Among the February releases was this one, an assortment of film adaptations of1950s Broadway smashes, each with their pluses and minuses. Collected on Broadway on the Big Screen are Brigadoon (1954),…
Godzilla Rulers of EarthBy Chris Mowry, Matt Frank, and Jeff Zornow592 Pages/IDW Publishing/$13.99 I grew up in the 1960s when the first Godzilla movies became part of the monster movies frequently found on television at all hours of the day or night. I recall being thrilled to be taken to see Destroy All Monsters because…
Prime Time Television all too often reduces great ideas to easily digestible concepts, often resulting in police procedurals of one sort or another. As a result, when the Vertigo Comics interpretation of Lucifer Morningstar was optioned by Fox in 2014, they quickly announced that the devil would be running a piano bar, like in the…
The Shadowed Circle CompendiumEdited by Steve Donoso180 pages/Renaissance Arts Press/$30 softcover, $50 hardcover) There is no excuse for why this review is so late, and I owe editor Steve Donoso a major apology. The Shadow has endured for 92 years, first as a radio voice, then in pulp magazine exploits, selling so furiously that it…
When I started writing for the Tom and Jerry syndicated newspaper strip in 1990, I was given three rules: 1. Tom could chase Jerry but not catch him. 2. No violence! Not none, not never! 3. No puns. The first two rules contravened fifty years of animated history, spanning more than 160 anvil-dropping, tail-chopping, dynamite-explosive…
There were three major comics memoirs by women in the fall of 2025, all about the same cluster of topics: eating, cooking, family, and how those things are connected. I don’t know if it’s going to be surprising to anyone that many women have issues around both eating (their bodies are often policed by others)…
Wake Now in the FireBy Jarrett Dapier and AJ Dungo464 pages/Ten Speed Graphic/$38 (hardcover) $24.99 (softcover) For several years, I taught Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis in my high school English classes, a chance to introduce readers to the graphic novel storytelling style while helping see what people their age endure in other countries. Last year, after…
A Brief History of a Long War: Ukraine’s Fight Against Russian DominationBy Mariam Naiem, Yulia Vus, and Ivan Kypibida112 pages/Ten Speed Graphics/19.99 As the horrific Ukraine War continues, nearing its fourth anniversary, along comes this wonderful graphic novel. A Brief History of a Long War: Ukraine’s Fight Against Russian Domination niftily blends a contemporary account…
In a city somewhere, there’s a tall man, bald on top. We don’t know his name. We don’t know his job, or if he has one. We know he lives in a small apartment, plagued by a mouse he keeps trying to catch, and that he eats some kind of canned food, maybe exclusively, and…
The Awakening of RokuBy Randy Ribay279 pages/Amulet Books/$21.99 I was once again invited to the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender with the most recent offering in their Legends series of young adult novels. After previously entering this world, with no prior knowledge, with City of Echoes, I am now tasked with evaluating Roku’s story,…
Globetrotters: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s World TourBy Julian Voloj & Julie Rocheleau184 pages/Abrams ComicArts/$25.99 Elizabeth Jane Cochran liked to write under various names, beginning her journalism career as “Lonely Orphan Girl” for the Pittsburgh Dispatch before adopting the more familiar name Nellie Bly. As Bly, she checked into New York City’s Women’s Lunatic Asylum…
