Month: July 2010

  • Shadoweyes Graphic Novel Review

    Shadoweyes Graphic Novel Review

    2010, Slave Labor Graphics Story, Art: Ross Campbell Ross Campbell’s Shadoweyes is the tale of teenage misfit Scout Montana, who after a failed attempt at vigilantism is clumped on the head with a brick and finds herself transformed into the eponymous blue-skinned creature. Scout is initially able to return to her human form, but she…

  • Neo Geo Battle Coliseum Xbox Live Arcade Review

    Neo Geo Battle Coliseum Xbox Live Arcade Review

    You’ve got to feel for the few surviving SNK stalwarts out there. While Capcom not only revitalised the fighting genre with Street Fighter IV but continues to tease gamers and comic geeks alike with the dream match extravaganza that is Marvel vs. Capcom 3, SNK Playmore has only further alienated its niche fanbase. The most…

  • Largo Winch: Deadly Revenge DVD Released 23rd August

    Largo Winch: Deadly Revenge DVD Released 23rd August

    Optimum Home Entertainment has announced that the 2008 French action flick Largo Winch: Deadly Revenge will be released in the UK on DVD on the 23rd August. This is just one of several adaptations of Philippe Francq and Jean Van Hamme’s popular and enduring Belgium comic character of the same name, who also saw a…

  • Cognito Comic’s Operation Ajax Debuts on iPad Active Reader

    Cognito Comic’s Operation Ajax Debuts on iPad Active Reader

    While digitally distributed comics are nothing new, it arguably took the unveiling of the iPad to not only get the medium some much needed mainstream attention, but to give us geeks something to read said digital comics with on the go. All, while flaunting that super slick, super shiny screen, naturally. Emerging publisher Cognito Comics…

  • New Site, New Direction. Sort Of…

    Last week I decided to give the writing a break and redesign shelfabuse.com from scratch. The idea was to design the site around a pile of notebooks and sketchpads strewn across a tabletop; this new look would stand out from the crowd, and emphasise the more personal direction I planned to take the site in.…

  • ‘Isness’ Fotonovel Project Seeks Donors

    ‘Isness’ Fotonovel Project Seeks Donors

    A bunch of Brooklyn creatives led by multimedia artist Stavit Allweis need your donations to help fund Isness, a gruesome fotonovela chronicling the last 24 hours in the lives of the sole surviving family of a post-apocalyptic future. For those unaware of what exactly a fotonovela is, the format was essentially a comic book with…

  • New Titan Book Site Launched

    Graphic novel and movie tie-in publisher Titan Books has launched its new website at www.titanbooks.com, timed to coincide with the San Diego Comic-Con. Unlike your average publisher website, however, there’s a great blog section here that’s already brimming with interviews with such creators as Mike Carey and Frank Quitely. From the press release: As part…

  • The Royal Historian of Oz #1 Review

    The Royal Historian of Oz #1 Review

    Slave Labor Graphics, $1.00 Story: Tommy Kovac Art: Andy Hirsch The perpetual regurgitation of public domain properties is something you either reluctantly enjoy or thoroughly despise. For every Wicked or League of Extraordinary Gentlemen there’s a dozen Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. With SLG’s The Royal Historian of Oz, Tommy Kovac and Andy Hirsch take…