Category: Graphic Novel Reviews
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Whiteout TPB Review
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Originally published 1998, Oni Press Writer: Greg Rucka Art: Steve Lieber Whiteout: a weather condition in which visibility and contrast are severely reduced by snow and diffuse lighting from overcast clouds. U.S. Marshall Carrie Stetko feels the same way about her current predicament; emotionally vacuous and struggling to lose her past, she is only given…
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DC: The New Frontier TPB Review
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DC Comics Story, Art: Darwyn Cooke Colours: Dave Stewart It would be easy to dismiss Darwyn Cooke’s The New Frontier as another retro inspired reinterpretation of the currently stagnated superhero genre. Essentially, that is all it is. Comparisons to James Robinson’s The Golden Age are also inevitable, but Cooke avoids that book’s descent into darker…
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Young Avengers vol. 1: Sidekicks TPB Review
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Marvel Writer: Allan Heinberg Pencils: Jim Cheung Inks: John Dell, Mark Morales, Drew Geraci Colours: Justin Ponsor In the genre specific confines of the comic medium it is so rare to be surprised by a superhero book, let alone one published by Marvel. Sidekicks is everything it shouldn’t be, fresh, energetic and intelligent. I cannot…
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JSA: The Golden Age TPB Review
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DC, 1993 Story: James Robinson, Paul Martin Smith Writing: James Robinson Art: Paul Martin Smith Colours: Richard Ory Letters: John Costanza The DC universe has become a daunting, temporally retarded place of late, never moving forward, always looking back. While this is not essentially a bad thing – the costumed vigilante has changed very little…
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The Immortal Iron Fist: The Last Iron Fist Story TPB Review
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Marvel, 2007 Writer: Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction Art: David Aja, Travel Foreman, Derek Fridolfs, Russ Heath, John Severin, Sal Buschema, Tom Palmer Colours: Matt Hollingsworth, Dean White, Laura Marti Every great superhero has his defining moment, an essential work which all fans of that hero will have read. Some of the greatest have several. Miller’s…
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Iron Man Disassembled TPB Review
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2004, Marvel Writer: John Jackson Miller, Mark Ricketts Pencilers: Jorge Lucas, Tony Harris, Scott Kolins Inkers: Tom Feister, Charles Wallace Colours: Antonio Fabela, J.D. Mettler Though Marvel’s finest would soon reassemble under the New Avengers title, the ‘Disassembled’ plotline saw the team exit with more whimper than bang. This book sees Tony struggle with the…
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Batman and the Monster Men TPB Review
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Originally published 2006, DC Vertigo Writer: Matt Wagner Artist: Matt Wagner Colours: Dave Stewart Matt Wagner presents the Dark Knight’s first foray into the bizarre, in this Frankenstein flavoured pseudo-sequel to Miller’s Year One. The Batmobile, Robin and crew are all absent, and Batman’s relationship with James Gordon, not yet commissioner, is under development. Wagner’s…
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Civil War: Iron Man TPB Review
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Marvel, 2006 Writers: Christos N. Gage, Daniel Knauf, Charles Knauf, Brian Michael Bendis Pencilers: Jeremy Haun, Patrick Zircher, Alex Maleev Inkers: Mark Morales, Scott Hanna Colours: Morry Hollowell, Guru EFX, Jose Villarrubia This is an odd volume, occurring both before and after the death of Marvel’s finest, Captain America, but like the Frontlines series it…