The annual Comic Con blew into Tyler this late October with a fury seldom seen in pop culture events. Of course it brought the usual assortment of celebrities, cosplayers, dealers and entertainers, but this year it also brought something less expected: torrential rain and winds that turned a simple nerd-fest into an adventure. It tested […]
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Two books again this week. I can’t say for sure yet whether this will become the norm, but right now the comic industry is just so bursting with wonderful things, it’s hard to pick just one book to talk about each week. Hell, this week, it was tough to pick just two, […]
So, we’re going over two books this week – I knew I was gonna want to talk about the start of Meredith and David Finch’s run on Wonder Woman, good or bad, but while it wasn’t enough for a full article, I was also moved to write about Ray Fawkes’ intriguing new Image title, Intersect. […]
Ivan Brandon has been waiting quite some time for his due. For years, he’s been saddled with various books that were ill-fated from the start, from tie-in miniseries like Final Crisis Aftermath: Escape and X-Men: Nation X to a couple of “big chance” books like the New 52’s Men of War that unfortunately went nowhere. […]
Greg Pak is one of the great mysteries in the world of comics. Like a lot of people, I first discovered him through the now-classic Planet Hulk storyline, and loved every minute of it. This was the work of a strong new voice in comics, someone who was able to take an old concept straight […]
So, it’s been a few years since I last wrote any of these reviews. But for those with particularly long memories, you may recall that the last one I wrote here was for the first issue of a fledgling indy title called Harbinger. Now, here we are, many moons later, and the initial reservations I […]