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Review: Highspot #1
By Dan Traeger
Scene 1: Fade in on a comic book opened to its splash page, showcasing the artwork. The pages of the comic reveal a slight patina of yellow, marking it as having a little age and a little usage but still eminently readable. The pages begin turning slowly one by one as a voiceover chimes in.
Review: Catapulted #1
By Dan Traeger
I love it when comics teach me something without actually beating me over the head with it. Catapulted does just that. Writer/Artist Sebastian Chow has a soft touch with heavy subject matter, and he spins a good yarn in the process. The central conceit of Catapulted is rooted in the real world French space program that in 1963, in an effort to make themselves appear as contenders in the burgeoning space race, sent a cat into orbit because, you know… cats. Apparently, the United States and the Soviet Union had all the dogs and primates pre-scheduled for missions already, so you know… cats.
Review: Rocko's Modern Life #5
By Hunter T. Patrick
Such a fun time. Rocko’s Modern Life #5 does something very hard to do, it both holds the legacy of its past but also embraces the future (our present). Rock gets a cell phone, never having one before. This occurrence has something all too familiar for most people as he gets addicted to his phone and thus comes the humor. Rocko quickly becomes a success online with help from his dog. Rocko being mixed with everything has a lot of great laughs. Rocko fans will be happy with this comic, but maybe not the easily forgettable back-up included. Read this and expect fun similar to the television series.
Review: Isola #3
Isola #3 adds a little of the magic mystery back and moves things along, but does not fully clear up just what is going on. We get some more information about Rook’s past and a little about the current situation in the land, but not a whole lot more. This is a slow burn kind of story so far, in which it seems like we are supposed to really be invested in the journey, not just the ultimate goal.
Review: Quantum and Woody #6
By Robert Ramos
Funny man Eliot Rahal is taking over for other funny man Daniel Kibblesmith on Valiant’s Dynamic Duo, Quantum, and Woody. I’ve been a closet fan of Eliot Rahal since his heyday outings with now bigshot Donny Cates, so it’s nice to see his name out there, on his own, on a widely renown title. So how did his big debut fair? One word: Eh.
Review: Sacred Creatures vol. 1
By Jonathan Edwards
If Ales Kot’s Wolf taught me anything (other than that a mediocre series can still get you back into reading comics), it’s that I’m a sucker for extra-sized first issues. So, when Sacred Creatures #1 came out in July of 2017 boasting a whopping 66 pages on top of a contemporary fantasy story (a subgenre I already prefer), I was more than a little intrigued. I picked up the first issue, as well as the other issues in the first volume as they came out, but they all ended up unread and in my backlog. That is until I signed up to review this trade.
Review: Royal City #11
By Ben Snyder
Royal City #11 picks up exactly where it left off prior to its flashback arc; with Patrick and his recently discovered niece awaiting his estranged wife Greta as she joins him in the titular Royal City. It’s hard to give this entry a positive review when it leaves the reader in a state of perpetual malaise. But one hallucinatory character says it best near the end of the chapter, “That’s what this place does to you… leaves you in between.” That is why this chapter is successful; Jeff Lemire is totally in control of the story and flexing his artistic muscles by forcing the reader to join the characters in this semi-purgatorial rotting steel town.
Review: Green Lanterns Annual
By Cat Wyatt
Green Lanterns Annual is an interesting issue, to say the least. The Lost Lantern is the first time in a long time that we’ve seen Simon, Jess, Hal, and Jon Stewart all working together for any length of time. This should be pretty exciting for those fans that have been hoping to see more interactions between our Green Lantern groups.
Review: Aquaman/Jabberjaw Special #1
By Garrett Hanneken
Aquaman Jabberjaw Special #1 plays its homage to both storylines in a fun and heartwarming tale, but the issue references a horror movie that started the comic out wonderfully.
Review: Barrier #5
By Cat Wyatt
The final issue of Barrier is here, and with it will likely be a bittersweet ending. Brian K. Vaughan isn’t exactly known for his happy endings, so this is something to keep in mind as we explore Barrier #5 today. The last time we saw Liddy and Oscar they were trapped on an alien planet, but rather than letting that fact defeat them they had stepped up and started fighting. Here’s hoping that fight ends up taking them somewhere good.
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On December 2nd, we unleash LANCER #1, a brutal near-future action thriller. LANCER is ALIENS meets the gig economy: military veterans use an app to hunt dangerous species for cash, until one job beneath New York City hunts them back.