Tag: sci-fi comics

  • Fighting Crime and Raging Hormones in Shadoweyes in Love

    Fighting Crime and Raging Hormones in Shadoweyes in Love

    Second volume of critically-acclaimed series by Ross Campbell due out in April Press Release: Scout Montana has just started to come to terms with turning into a mutant and becoming a superhero, but fate decided that isn’t enough complication in the life of the teenage vigilante. In the second volume of Ross Campbell’s critically acclaimed…

  • Interview: Artist Echo Chernik at NYCC

    Interview with comic artist Echo Chernik at the New York Comic Con.

  • Magnus: Robot Fighter #1 Comic Review

    Magnus: Robot Fighter #1 Comic Review

    $3.50, Dark Horse Story: Jim Shooter Art: Bill Reinhold, Raymond Swanland (cover) Colours: Wes Dzioba With Dark Horse’s new retro-fitted Magnus: Robot Fighter, Jim Shooter takes us back to the year 4000 and the futuristic city of New Am, a technological haven where robots fulfil every duty from policing the streets to working as effeminate…

  • Maximum Lifespan – Dr. Ed Park Interview

    Maximum Lifespan – Dr. Ed Park Interview

    A few months back I reviewed Dr. Ed Park’s Maximum Lifespan, an intelligent and multifaceted sci-fi thriller set in world where medical technology is close to unlocking the secrets of immortality. Ed, a Californian physician practicing Ob-Gyn, Laser Aesthetics and Anti-Aging, financed the book himself, and it has to be one of the slickest self-published…

  • Maximum Lifespan Graphic Novel Review

    Maximum Lifespan Graphic Novel Review

    2010 Story: Edward Park Art: Jan-Ove (Jove) Leksell “I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying,” begins Maximum Lifespan, with a little help from the ever judicious wit of Woody Allen. Dr. Ed Park presents us a world where immortality through science is a reality, where…

  • Warlord of Io Graphic Novel Review

    Warlord of Io Graphic Novel Review

    2010, Slave Labor Graphics Story, Art: James Turner Wander through Covent Garden or Soho for more than ten minutes and you’ll likely pass one of several stores selling little collectible vinyl models; hyper-stylised toys for adults that are generally produced in limited quantities and act as showcases for their creator’s design prowess. Warlord of Io…

  • 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…

  • After Dark #0: Radical Premiere Review

    After Dark #0: Radical Premiere Review

    Radical Comics, $1.00 Story: Antoine Fuqua, Wesley Snipes Script: Peter Milligan Art: Jeff Nentrup, Sara Biddle Radical Comics is a relatively new publisher that prints thicker, 52-page books with high production values and movie adaptations in mind. The company has also been beset with plagiarism accusations (Nick Simmon’s Incarnate) and a lawsuit concerning unpaid wages,…