Dark Horse, $3.50 Story: Mac Walters Script: John Jackson Miller Art: Omar Francia Colours: Michel Atiyeh The universe Bioware have forged for Mass Effect is nothing short of magnificent, but it doesn’t take a particularly keen eye to spot the problem in expanding this blossoming space opera franchise into other media. While the promotional material […]
Titan Books have been kind enough to provide shelfabuse.com with 3 copies of the new Iron man prose novel by Alex Irvine, ‘Virus,’ which fills in the blanks between the first movie and the upcoming sequel. More info at Titan Books. Hopefully this synopsis should whet thine appetite: Iron Man: Virus In the clear blue […]
Top Cow, $2.99 Story: Robert Kirkman Pencils: Nelson Blake II Inks: Sal Regla Colours: Dave McCaig Often considered more “content writers” than literary artistes, comic writers seem destined to grab at whatever conventions are currently popular and craft tales that are familiar enough to sell to fans of the fictional fad of the moment (at […]
Image, $2.99 Story: Mike Oeming Script: Dan Berman, Mike Oeming Art: John Broglia Colours: Dan Berman You only have to glance at the first issue of God Complex, the new series by Oemin, Berman and Broglia, to appreciate who the series’ target market is. From the TV animation inspired artwork to Oeming’s dialogue-heavy script, God […]
Script: Glenn Møane Pencils: Edson Alves Inks: Marcelo Dantas, Edson Alves Frank Manning makes movies for a living. You wouldn’t guess this by looking at him or his dilapidated home, but this is because Frank keeps his profits concealed from prying neighbours and the authorities. His lucrative speciality is snuff movies, which Frank produces with […]
Love comics? Wear Clothes? Of course you do, otherwise: a) you probably wouldn’t have found yourself stranded on these here shores in the first place, and b) there’s something irrevocably wrong with you. Anyway, Swedish fashion designer Katarina Emgård has opened her Kisenja Superhero Store, which features outfits modelled by her characters in the webcomic […]