Review: Eleanor and the Egret #1
By Levi Remington
In John Layman and Sam Kieth's eclectic and surreal ode to classic European fables, Eleanor and the Egret #1 tells the story of Eleanor, a woman who steals art from all across Paris with the help of her magical pet bird, an Egret, who eats the stolen art and consequently expands in size by a significant degree, as birds do. Read ahead for my thoughts on the delightful beginnings of this bizarre miniseries. In the meantime, I'll be pondering the origins of a feather with Cheswick the cat, lamenting the absence of my Bird-Identification specialties, and picking advanced locks with the beak of a mystical heron.
Review: Savage Things #2
By Dustin Cabeal
There is a lot to enjoy about Savage Things as long as serial killers being used as terrorist agents is your cup of tea. In a lot of ways, Savage Things is either the American answer to James Bond or Jason Bourne with psychopaths. Take your pick on which sounds more appealing to you.
Review: Kim Reaper #1
By Levi Remington
It couldn't be more fitting that this comic begins with Becka, our main character, completely ignoring her Fine Art university class in favor of a good ogle at her goth classmate, Kim, a part-time grim reaper. To say Kim Reaper ignores any attempts at being fine art would be an understatement. Sarah Graley doesn't just sidestep the profound, she proudly smothers it with the quirky, pulsing heart of a caffeinated millennial. Read ahead for my thoughts on this week's debut issue while I grow a six-pack on my forehead.
Review: Sun Bakery #2
By Dustin Cabeal
If you didn’t read the first issue of Corey Lewis’ anthology series Sun Bakery, then I feel sorry for you because it’s by far the best anthology being published in comics and it’s all being done by one man. Lewis has crafted four ongoing stories that have varying length this issue, but all of them and I mean all of them, are damn good. What’s nice is that Lewis keeps the series in the same order.
Review: AA Squad #1
By Ben Boruff
AA Squad is a simple comic, but its characters ask big questions. What is the value of history? What is the nature of the butterfly effect? Is Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" wrong? Does my life matter?
Review: Justice League of America #3
By Jonathan Edwards
Justice League of America #3 is the comic book equivalent of a boat springing a leak, and to fix it, the sailor uses material they got from making two more holes. Then, after a moment of realization, makes four more holes to fix the two they just made. So on and so forth. I honestly have no idea what Steve Orlando is doing anymore, nor why he only seems to be able to bring up themes with same three or four ham-handed phrases. "People need to be inspired." "The world can only be saved through oppression." "People not gods." Yeah, Steve, we get it. How about you give as a sensible plot and/or some honest character development? No? Alright, whatever.
Review: Dark Knight III: The Master Race #8
By Jonathan Edwards
I don't like Frank Miller. Not just because he's a shitty person, nor because his writing's gotten definitively worse over the last decade or so. With maybe one or two exceptions, I've never liked his work. Brian Azzarello is a lot more middle of the road. From what I've read, he tends to be decent at the very least (Moonshine, for one, has been pretty good so far, though definitely not the best thing coming out from Image right now). However, I'm pretty sure Azzarello is the only thing keeping this book from taking a straight nosedive into pure awfulness. It's long been presumed that he was taking on the brunt of the writing with this series, and some of Miller's own comments, explaining his writing of a fourth entry in the Dark Knight series, more or less confirms that. It's too bad that he can only do so much here, and it really isn't enough. Despite attempts to veil the rampant Islamophobia Miller threw around in Holy Terror, it still ends up about as subtle as a truck. Well, if you want to call portraying the Kadorians as blatant and over the top religious zealots utilizing suicide bombers "veiled." And if that weren't enough, issue #7 of this shit show advocates for police brutality. Way to go. Yet, can this penultimate issue turn it all around and make this a worthwhile book? Nope, not in the slightest.
Review: The Gamma Gals #1
By Dustin Cabeal
The Gamma Gals is a quaint indie superhero story that’s part Fantastic Four, part high school drama. The origin story is given to us in just a few pages which were nice, but then also a little too quick. Listen, comics are overrun by origin stories, so it’s fine to skip it, but if you’re going to bring it up then cover it. Otherwise, it’s better to skip it than to gloss over it.
Review: At Least You’re Not These Monsters
By Dustin Cabeal
You could add a subtitle of “Things could always be worse” to the title of At Least You’re Not These Monsters. The new book from Devastator and creators Danny Lacy and Mike Levine takes a look at some monsters and some problems with said monsters with the goal of making you feel better.
Review: A.A.I Wars #1
By Dustin Cabeal
Sci-fi is one of the hardest genres to write, mostly because at some point you have to explain the way the entire world works to the audience which can make or break a story. A lot of stories will try and cheat this by having a wall of text to read before starting the story which is the worst possible way to do it. Others, like A.A.I Wars, will use narration to explain the story. There are other ways of course, but I’m by no means teaching, nor am I an expert. I just know what works for me as a consumer of sci-fi.
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