Month: December 2009

  • Daytripper #1 Review

    Daytripper #1 Review

    Vertigo, 2009 By: Fabio Moon, Gabriel Bá Colours: Dave Stewart Eisner Award winning Brazilian duo Fabio Moon and Gabriel Bá’s new series Daytripper is a mature title in the truest sense. And by that I don’t mean that this is a comic that feels the need to shove tits and incest in the reader’s face…

  • Avatar Movie Review

    Avatar Movie Review

    2009 Director: James Cameron Script: James Cameron Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoë Saldaña, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Sigourney Weaver In 1986, James Cameron gave us Aliens, a movie which climaxed with Sigourney Weaver going head to head with a queen Xenomorph in a power lifter – despite the acid-spitting extra-terrestrial’s superior design it was…

  • Grim Crew Presents: Dead Future #3 Review

    Grim Crew Presents: Dead Future #3 Review

    2009, Grim Crew Writers: Martin Brandt II, Tiffany Brandt, Adam Wilson Artists: Gaston Pacheco, Drake Harris, Michael Stewart, Mark Dodson See also: Grim Crew Presents: Dead Future #1 and #2 Review Martin Brandt and company continue to forecast the undead apocalypse in this anthology series by writers and artists from around the world. As with…

  • Justice Society of America: The Bad Seed (JSA) Review

    Justice Society of America: The Bad Seed (JSA) Review

    DC, 2009 Writer: Matthew Sturges, Bill Willingham Art: Jesus Merino Colours: Allen Passalaqua So… imagine you’re a comic book publisher. Superheroes inspired by the Golden Age are the trend of the moment, so you take a series renowned for its old school crime-fighters and you let Geoff Johns go mad with it, cramming as many…

  • Dark Reign: Elektra TPB Review

    Dark Reign: Elektra TPB Review

    2009, Marvel Writer: Zeb Wells Pencils: Clay Mann Inks: Mark Pennington Colours: Matt Hollingsworth When Elektra was the first major character to be exposed as a Skrull in the run-up to Secret Invasion she seemed a good choice of character to send to spandex heaven. Take a look at the numerous series Elektra Natchios has…

  • Dark X-Men #1 Review

    Dark X-Men #1 Review

    Marvel, $3.99 Story: Paul Cornell Art: Leonard Kirk, Jay Leisten, Brian Leber Norman Osborn’s own band of merry mutants get yet another miniseries. As with much of Marvels’ Dark Reign related material, it’s decently written, nicely illustrated… but somehow feels completely unnecessary. Whereas the central plot element of the Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men Utopia crossover was…

  • JSA All-Stars #1 Review

    JSA All-Stars #1 Review

    DC, $3.99 Story: Matthew Sturges Art: Freddie Williams II, Richard Horie, Tanya Horie Matt Sturges and Bill Willingham’s recent ‘The Bad Seed’ arc in Justice Society of America, ended with the destruction of the Brownstone and the downcast team’s decision to split in two. Much like the JSA itself, the All-Stars line-up consists of both…

  • Fall of the Hulks: Alpha Review

    Fall of the Hulks: Alpha Review

    Marvel, $3.99 Story: Jeff Parker Art: Paul Pelletier, Vicente Cifuentes, Guru eFX Like the green goliath himself, the Hulk series and its offshoots have grown out of control, and currently exist in a state of flux that nobody seems able to fix. Fortunately, Jeff Parker, whose immensely enjoyable Agents of ATLAS has been a definite…