I had some reluctance before picking up Moonhead and the Music Machine. The thing is, I will check out any comic that has some kind of connection to music. Lately, though, there’s been an incredible dry spell for comics and music. I would have to go back to last year to find something good. Apparently good things come in twos with comics because I found not one, but two music-themed comics that were great this week.
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If there’s one thing most comic readers don’t know about me from reading my reviews, it’s that I love Christmas. No, I’m not, so cliché to follow-up with saying that it’s my favorite time of year, but it is a time in which I love to see the transformation of humanity. In particular, I love things involving Santa Claus and often worry that the lore will be extinct in my lifetime.
Read MoreBefore I read comic books, I read comic strips. To this day I have no idea why the two are considered to be so different to people, to me, they’re both comics. When the “death of print” started and everyone proclaimed newspapers to be on the demise I was mortified. Not because of how many reporters would lose their jobs or how’d we get our weekly ads, but instead because of the comic section. At my house, we had a subscription to the Denver Post just for the comics. I wish that were an exaggeration but my father has never read any other section of the paper and while my mother dabbles, it’s very telling when you start in the comics section and then see what else you paid for, it’s just how we are. The charm of comic strips to me is that it’s daily. Getting just a tiny bit every day of the series you enjoy will always be better than a monthly comic.
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If DC had a slogan right now, it would be DC: Bold As Fuck. Seriously, they’re just trying whatever which sounds like a dreadful thing, but it’s not. It’s what the industry has always done, but at some point, the big two were like, Nah, continuity, it’s all about what’s happening in the world. Screw that; I want what ifs and alternate timelines in which Nightwing is a total dick, pun intended. And I don’t need it to be part of the multiverse, just fun comics starring familiar characters for a few months is nice and refreshing.
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I’ll save you from the boring “I love Clueless” to speech and just jump right into the question I asked myself the entire time I read the new graphic novel from BOOM! Box/BOOM! Studios…
“Who is this for?”
After reading the entire thing, I can confidently say… I'm clueless, and I wish that were an intended pun, but it’s just the truth.
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After my last tongue lashing for this series, I bet you’re wondering why I’m back again? Well, I do like to give things more than one chance because you never know when something could surprise you. That didn’t happen here in case you were wondering. No, unfortunately, it’s just more of the same. Passed on TV scripts being poorly transposed into comic books.
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The Hard Place is clearly a story that’s not meant to be judged by the first issue alone. Which makes a review for the first issue all the more difficult to write. Here we are though, and I can only judge what’s here in this first issue.
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If you read comics and proclaim to love comics, then you should read Hi-Fi Fight Club this week. If I did a pick of the week or some such crap, then this would be it. If I had a spinner rack at a comic shop with recommendations that people “in the know” scoffed at because they already knew the book was cool, this would be in that spot. I would never know it was in that spot, but it would be there.
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This ended up being the second comic about parenting from the male perspective that I’ve read in as many weeks. Fowl Language has some chuckles for sure, but it wasn’t always wildly entertaining.
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Having read the previous two books in the Capstone/DC kids books, I decided to give it one more shot because I really would love a kids Batman book that I could share with my son. The same problem persists in Batman is Trustworthy as it did in Be A Star, Wonder Woman and Bedtime for Batman. The message isn’t subtle and the equivalent of me just telling my child to do something while showing them a picture of Batman and saying the word “Batman” over and over.
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After a lackluster first issue, I decided to give this series another shot. Unfortunately, it’ll be the last shot I give it. It’s not a bad comic. I’m not quitting it because the story is awful or because the artwork is unenjoyable. It’s just a boring comic book.
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Southern Bastards is finally back, after a long hiatus. Both Sebastian Girner, the series editor, and Jason Latour lost their fathers within a few weeks of each other, and understandably this pushed back publication of the book. But I’ll be selfish and won’t lie: it’s good, damned good, to finally have this series back. We’re in the middle of several different threads of narrative payoff even as new ones take their place. All of the different factions and people around Boss want him dead, and he’s running out of ways to make himself indispensable to them. For once, his biggest problem isn’t going to be what happens next on the gridiron.
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Corsair #1, currently on Kickstarter, is an interesting piece of uniquely British horror work, for all the good and all the bad associated with that subgenre. It follows Agent Corsair, a man tasked with investigating the nastier side of the occult. It’s a sound, entertaining premise, with a lot of potential to explore a range of different aspects of both horror and Britain itself.
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Scarlet Rose is an ongoing French series of comics, currently ten years into its run, but only newly available in English. Apparently very successful in France, it’s something of a shame that it’s taken so long to make it over here. It’s a thrilling child-friendly historical adventure about a girl, her sword, and her obsession with a highwayman known as The Fox.
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I have meant to check out Quince… Well, since the first two issues released. They’re not well past that, but I wanted to get a review down before the series ended and I missed out completely. The concept is that a young girl has her quinceañera and then obtains superpowers for a year.
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After getting caught up on the first issue, I’m jumping in for a review of the second issue. Please feel free to check out our review for the first issue… here.
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There is so much potential to Mi Sweetheart. The first few pages gave me flashes of Sexcastle, but that quickly faded when the story got going. It starts off clever enough with a hit team being sent to take out an impossible target. The main character of our story is a woman with incredible abilities, but she’s gone “rogue,” so they’ve been sent to kill her. Instead of doing that they drug the driver and leave the country. Then we spend time with the main character and the story trails off from there.
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Doctor Crowe #2 came out a month or so back, but I’m just now getting the time to catch up on the series. If you’re unfamiliar, and you likely are, it’s a series of short stories that are all written by Corey Fryia and illustrated by different creators. It’s a lot like Hellboy or Baltimore in that the stories connected, but don’t rely on you having intimate details of each tale. It's revealed as you read and so really all you have to do is start reading.
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It’s not often that I read a graphic novel that I truly dislike. Unfortunately, A Castle in England is one such graphic novel. I can appreciate what it was attempting to do, but ultimately the end product was one that ended up being dull and reparative.
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Do you have a child? Then this book is for you. Seriously, it’s the most relatable comic I have ever read because it captures what I go through on a daily basis. Truly Christopher Grady is the voice of every father in the modern era.
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