Tag: Robert Kirkman

  • The Walking Dead Weekly #4-6 Review

    The Walking Dead Weekly #4-6 Review

    Image Comics, $2.99 Writer: Robert Kirkman Art: Tony Moore With Robert Kirkman’s seminal zombie series making the transition to lucrative multimedia franchise, the first few issues of Image’s weekly reprint have served to remind us just how humble this series’ beginnings were. Yet even by issue 4 of the The Walking Dead it’s clear that…

  • Pilot Season: Murderer #1 Review

    Pilot Season: Murderer #1 Review

    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…

  • Haunt #1 Comic Book Review

    Haunt #1 Comic Book Review

    Image Writer: Robert Kirkman Pencils: Ryan Ottley, Greg Capullo (layouts) Inks: Todd McFarlane Colours: FCO Plascencia When Grant Morrison described his early creation Zenith as a reaction to torment superheroes, he could easily have been implicating Haunt, a new series from Images that is utterly joyless, humourless and devoid of that sense of magic and…

  • Marvel Zombies TPB Review

    Marvel Zombies TPB Review

    Marvel, 2006 Writer: Robert Kirkman Art: Sean Phillips Colours: June Chung Covers: Arthur Suydam The two big ones do thrive on gimmicks. If it’s not the next Death of A Nobody, it’s the obligatory annual Big Event, the repercussions of which are never anything but minimal. Dragging its rotting corpse onto the back of the…