Read my review of cartoonist Rick Geary's latest "true crime" graphic novel The True Death of Billy the Kid on the No Flying, No Tights website.
Read more…The Beauty Vol. 1
Jeremy Haun, Jason A. Hurley: story; Jeremy Haun, art; John Rauch, color
Image Comics, 2016
I'm late to the party with this series (fortunately it's available for free download from the library Hoopla service, and is still ongoing).
Read more…Grass Kings Vol. 1
Matt Kindt, writer; Tyler Jenkins, illustrator
BOOM! Studios, 2018
The Grass Kingdom is a small secessionist community, intent on living their lives free of government influence. They occupy a plot of land with a long history of r
Read more…Skin & Earth Vol. 1
Lights: story, art & lettering
Dynamite Entertainment, 2018
Singer/songwriter Lights created this debut graphic novel as part of a multimedia project to accompany a concept album of music portraying the same themes. Probably not m
Read more…The Royals: Masters of War
Rob Williams, writer; Simon Coleby, pencils & inks (Chapters 1-3); Gary Erskine, inks (Chapters 4-6); J.D. Mettler, colors
Vertigo Comics, 2014
As a longtime Vertigo fan, I've always had a special fondness for their miniser
Read more…Gideon Falls Vol. 1: Black Barn
Jeff Lemire & Andrea Sorrentino; Dave Stewart, colors
Image Comics, 2018
The quiet village of Gideon Falls is a haunted place. Some believe in the existence of a black barn, a supernatural place that reappears periodica
Read more…Reviews for books shipping Jan. 25, 2017, including:
• ALIENS: DEFIANCE VOL 1
• DANTE #1
• DETECTIVE #949
• FORBIDDEN BRIDES OF THE FACELESS SLAVES IN THE SECRET HOUSE OF THE NIGHT OF DREAD DESIRE
• FUTURE QUEST #9
• HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERN
Read more…Descender Vol. 6: The Machine War
Written by Jeff Lemire; illustrated by Dustin Nguyen
Image Comics, 2018
The big machine war arc begins with first contact with machine society by a human scientist, four thousand years in the past. It establishes a
Read more…The Kitchen
Ollie Masters, writer; Ming Doyle, artist; Jordie Bellaire, colorist
Vertigo Comics, 2015
Set in the 1970s in New York City's Hell's Kitchen, this eight-issue miniseries tells the story of three women married to Irish mobsters, and what th
Read more…Kill or be Killed Vol. 4
Ed Brubaker, writer; Sean Phillips, artist; Elizabeth Breitweiser, colorist
Image Comics, 2018
The series finale begins with Dylan in a mental institution. After months of no vigilante activity--and not seeing the demon--the
Read more…Reviews for books shipping Feb. 15, 2017.
Sadly, I was assigned much overtime this week, so I don't have time for capital-R reviews -- I didn't even have time to read very much. But we can still be friends, right? We can talk. It's not like I'm just
Read more…Redlands Volume One: Sisters By Blood
Jordie Bellaire, writer & color artist; Vanesa Del Ray, artist; Clayton Cowles, letterer & production
Image Comics, 2018
Colorist Jordie Bellaire makes her writing debut with this series about a trio of witches ru
Read more…A dark story that takes the famous stock market crash of 1929 as its starting p
Read more…Royal City Vol. 1: Next Of Kin
Created, written & illustrated by Jeff Lemire
Image Comics, 2017
A new series that centers around a family--like Lemire's previous books Essex County and Roughneck. Royal City is a factory town which is dealing with a
Read more…Clean Room Vol 1: Immaculate Conception
Gail Simone (Writer), John Davis-Hunt (Artist), Quinton Winter (Colourist)
Vertigo Comics, 2016
Clean Room is centered around a self-help movement/cult run by a horror fiction writer named Astrid Mueller. The
Read more…My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book One
Emil Ferris
Fantagraphics Books, 2016
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional diary of ten year old Karen Reyes--it's even presented on lined school notebook paper, complete with spiral wire binding and
Read more…Reviews for books shipping Feb. 8, 2017, including:
• ALL STAR BATMAN #7
• BLACK HISTORY IN ITS OWN WORDS
• DIVINITY III: SHADOWMAN & THE BATTLE OF NEW STALINGRAD #1
• EARTH 2: SOCIETY #21
• EMPOWERED AND THE SOLDIER OF LOVE #1
• HAL JORDAN AND THE
Read more…Winnebago Graveyard
Steve Niles, script; Alison Sampson, art & design; Stephane Paitreau, color art; Aditya Bidikar, letters
Image Comics, 2017
Horror master Steve Niles created this four-issue miniseries with artist Alison Sampson. It's a classic r
Read more…Moonshine Vol. 1
Brian Azzarello, writer; Eduardo Risso, art & colors
Image Comics, 2017
So great to see the 100 Bullets creative team reunited. The gangster theme
here has similarities to the clandestine organization in the Vertigo
series, as do th
Reviews for books shipping Jan. 18, 2017, including:
• AQUAMAN #15
• ARCHIE #16
• BATMAN #15
• BLACK HAMMER GIANT-SIZED ANNUAL #1
• CAVE CARSON HAS A CYBERNETIC EYE #4
• COUGAR AND CUB #1
• CURSE WORDS #1
• DIVINITY III: ARIC, SON OF THE REVOLUTION #
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