The Life and Times of Ricky Lawless— Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips Giant Size Criminal #1
Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillip explore the tragedy of living under the sins of our fathers.
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Die Loaded #1 by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans— The Bones Continue to Roll
Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans remind us that some stories just don’t end.
More Than Just Another Crisis— a look at Deniz Camp and Eric Zawadzki’s Assorted Crisis Events #3
This comic is not apologetic about being a bit preachy.
“The music of the future needs a future to exist in.”— Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard’s The Power Fantasy Volume One: The Superpowers
The question in The Power Fantasy isn’t if the world is going to end but how is it going to end?
The Power Fantasy #3– Mini Review
In this issue, we learn so much but realize that we know so little about this world.
Transformers Volume 1: Robots in Disguise— Mini Review
Daniel Warren Johnson makes you feel something for these toys.
It’s About The Ethics of Super Powers in Gillen and Wijngaard’s Power Fantasy #1
Relaxed but always on edge until the narrative bomb drops, you can see how far Gillen and Wijngaard are willing to go with this story.
Finding the Truth in Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips’ The Enfield Gang Massacre
The title gives away what’s going to happen but The Enfield Gang Massacre is about stories as much as it is about the massacre.
Daniel Warren Johnson Gets To Play With Some Cool Toys in Transformers #1
This issue functions not as a reimagining of the Transformers story but as a reestablishing of it.
The Seductive Dive into the Underbelly of Desire and Escapism in Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' Night Fever
Brubaker and Phillips enter some real Hitchcockian territory, exploring an ordinary man entering into extraordinary circumstances.
Playing By The Rules in Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefenkgi’s The Good Asian
If any book can live up to the legacy of “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown,” it’s Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefenkgi's The Good Asian.
The Empty Writing of Todd McFarlane
Todd McFarlane’s two recent books lack one critical thing— actual writing.