Review: Grimwood Crossing #1
By Dustin Cabeal
From the start of the issue, I wasn’t sure if I really needed to read Grimwood Crossing. It’s about vampires, zombies, and the old west to give you an idea as to why. You need to be interested in those genres to be then interested in the combination of them. I’ve been reviewing indie comics for five years, going on six and have lost all interest in vampires, zombies and the old west due to reading a lot of comics about them and at this point I don’t feel obligated to cover them just because they’re indie. Thinking that way is the reason why I’m burnt out on reading comics like Grimwood Crossing.
CBMFP 259: The Last One For A While
By Dustin Cabeal
That's murder she wrote folks. The CBMFP will be taking a break while I recharge my battery. We thank you for listening every week and hope that you've enjoyed 259 episodes of the CBMFP, more if you count all those movie ones and shit that we did. Steve and I still have a hell of a show for you this week. Lots of comic book movie news because let's be honest... that's all there ever is.
Mobile Suit Gundam: Thunderbolt vol. 1 Out Next Week
By Dustin Cabeal
Well I reviewed this manga hella early. I'm going to point you in the direction of my review (see Review: Mobile Suit Gundam: Thunderbolt vol. 1) and you will know that if you love Gundam or mech suits in space... or thunder; that you should check this book out next week on the 15th when it releases.
Unboxing: Loot Wear – October 2016
By Dustin Cabeal
Yes, it is November, but I just got this. I'm assuming the underwear delayed the roll out. That's right, Loot Crate/Wear is making undies now! Hell, they even have a separate subscription to get just the underwear or just the socks! I recommend the socks. I'm wearing the underwear right now, and they're all right, but if you just need generic nerd underwear, you can get that at Target. These are dryfit... I guess that makes them better. That means there's no pee hole! The matching socks were for women by the way... make that shit unisex already dammit! They dropped the ball on the horror them and their weird choices in shirt styles. Who the fuck is going to wear that Alien shirt? No one, you'll look like an asshole in PJ's. I'm looking forward to next month because you know they're going to shit the bed on Christmas.
Images Translates Garcia and Rubin's Beowulf
By Dustin Cabeal
I don't care about Beowulf at all. It's one of those stories we all read and some people love it and I don't. Mainly because I don't need to see or read everyone's version of it. Then I saw this cover and David Rubin's name on the cover and I couldn't get over how incredible the art was. I'm a huge fan of Rubin's work. I've suffered through some stories just to look at his art. I hope that's not the case here, but with that art, I'll be checking this out regardless.
Review: Bitch Planet #9
By Robert Larson
This was the first issue of Bitch Planet that has failed to grab or affect me in a really strong way. Every issue is so visceral and so full of subtext, references to the present, and complicated intersectional feminism that I always have plenty to think about when I finish the issue. But I finished reading this particular issue, and it had no real impact on me. It just advances the plot, and it doesn’t even do that to the normal standards of Bitch Planet. Perhaps it’s just an off issue? I hope so. Warning: I will be discussing spoilers here.
Review: The Big Book of Superpowers
By Dustin Cabeal
I’m going to echo a lot of what I said in my review for The Big Book of Girl Power, here in my review for The Big Book of Superpowers. The main reason being that they have all the same strengths and weaknesses, which is funny since that’s what this book is about.
Review: The Big Book of Girl Power
By Dustin Cabeal
The Big Book of Girl Power is essentially an encyclopedia of female characters in the DC Universe. Gives their origins, powers and occasionally their main villain. It is targeted towards children and it’s almost perfect in that regard.
Review: Flash Gordon: King's Cross #1
By Laramie Martinez
Flash Gordon: King’s Cross #1 is a great introduction to a team up series. More often than not you’ll find team up books falling into the same traps. They bog themselves down by going to all kinds of lengths to show us how and why each of the team members decided to join forces. Often there will be some kind of misunderstanding that must be brought to a head and then resolved before the team can actually focus on the true problem. King’s Cross skips all that, instead the issue focuses on showing the readers who the heroes are as individuals, giving us glimpses into their personalities and styles.
Review: Walking Dead #160
By Robert Larson
The war with the Whisperers becomes more serious in this issue. At first, it was a battle between the Whisperers and Rick’s army, and the people who were dying were soldiers. Their deaths could be expected to a certain extent. But now that both the Whisperers and Rick’s men have split up, the individual communities are being forced to man their own battlements against the enemy. Just how violent it will be is still unclear, but it’s going to be hard to undo this damage, especially since Rick is now facing a new internal challenge. Warning: I will be discussing spoilers here.
VIZ Media Announces New Digital Manga Titles & Debuts For November
Press Release
VIZ Media kicks off November with a notable digital manga update that features the debut of RWBY in WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP magazine, several new series premieres as well as updates to more than a dozen other popular continuing titles.
First Second Books Reveals Spring 2017 Releases
By Dustin Cabeal
Ah... spring is in the air... of publishing. While we're getting our much-needed winter on, book publishers are getting their spring releases together. Below, you'll find a cover gallery for all of First Second Books' spring releases, but if you want to look at the full details you can actually download the catalog from us by clicking the following word: Yo.
Review: Unfollow #13
By Chris Tresson
Unfollow is the best series Vertigo has going right now, hands down. The series is an interesting read and I’ve enjoyed what I’ve read previously. Saying that, up until a few weeks ago, I did have a big stack of back issues piled up on my reading table (I don’t call it that because I read at it, it’s just a table covered in books that I haven’t had a chance to read yet.) I've read this series in big chunks at various points but I’ve managed to catch up now, hence me deciding to review the latest issue. So like myself staring down at that reading table o' mine, let’s stop stallin’ and get on with it… Unfollow, issue thirteen. Doin' it.
Review: Battlestar Galactica: Gods and Monsters #1
By Laramie Martinez
I must be feeling nostalgic this month, because I’ve got another review of a comic series based on an old T.V. show. Battlestar Galatica: Gods and Monsters is a pleasant, albeit somewhat jarring trip down memory lane. I haven’t watched the series for a few years now so when I was dropped back into the fleet it took me awhile to get my bearings. So much happens in the show that it can be confusing to try to remember what events happened or have yet to happen in the timeline. This issue shows promise, but it lacks a fundamental characteristic of the Battlestar Galactica franchise, which make it a little less interesting than it could be.
Review: Hellchild: The Unholy #1
By Dustin Cabeal
Hellchild reminded me a little of BOOM!’s Lucifer series, but with a Wolverine movie twist to it. I didn’t read the first Hellchild series, and frankly, you don’t need to have read this new series. There’s a nifty full page recap in the middle of the comic that gives you all the details about Hellchild which is a good thing since readers will walk away with knowledge about the character that’s not presented in the comic.
Review: Catwoman: Election Night #1
By Justin Wood
Okay, I have no real idea where to start with this. Presumably, to cash in on the repulsive election we're suffering through right now, DC Comics decided to jam out some sort of 'topical' response quickly. This thing is a genuine oddity folks. There hasn't been something so desperately political and equally confused about its subject in the Dark Knight's library since 1971's 'Batman' #230.
Review: Myopia #1
By Dustin Cabeal
Since I’ve been reviewing comics, Dynamite has always been a strange publisher to review. Overall, there’s no consistency to their product which makes them hard to compare to other publishers. Perhaps being all over is what works for them. It’s how they can produce titles that I find dreadful, but then also produce something like Myopia that I love. At the end of the day, though, it’s hard for me to say “Oh man, I hope they make more books like Myopia” because I know they won’t. I don’t know what they’ll do next… probably more Smosh or some shit.
Review: The Solar Grid #2
By Patrick Larose
To put this simply: The Solar Grid is the best science fiction comic coming out of anywhere right now.
If you haven’t read either of the two issues yet and want to go in spoiler free or just want to escape before I start throwing around phrases like “consequential dissonance” let me just stress how good this comic is.
Review: The Wicked + The Divine #23
By Robert Larson
The Wicked + The Divine #23 radically breaks with prior format in this issue. In fact, it breaks away from just about every comic book convention you can think of. Instead of being a traditional comic, this reads like a miniature magazine, and the entirety of the book is devoted to interviews with various members of the pantheon. There’s barely any art in this issue at all, and the art that exists would be more suited to an issue of Vanity Fair. It’s an interesting gimmick, and one that gives us a new look at the pantheon. But it’s also a limited approach, in part because the picture that emerges of the pantheon members is all roughly the same, it lacks the brilliant art that makes up this series, and we ultimately end up no closer to the characters of the Pantheon.
Review: Sonic: Mega Drive - The Next Level #1
By Mike Badilla
Sonic. He's a hedgehog. Blue. Runs fast. Star of (too) many video games, cartoons and comic books. I don't know how many people out there don't know who this character is, but if you don't know I basically just told you all you really need. Did I mention Eggman? Or is it Doctor Robotnik? He makes animals into robots, for reasons. Thanks to the comic series there are many more characters in the world of Sonic, some of which I'm sure we will find in this comic.
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By Justin McCarty
I picked up Transdimensional having no prior knowledge of the subject. Not even the Kickstarter description. If I had, I probably would have skipped it. I am probably one of five comics fans that don't get into sci-fi horror. The Kickstarter describes the comic as being a sci-fi horror in the same family as Alien and The Abyss. I’ve seen Alien maybe (just the one - sad face from you probably), not The Abyss. I wasn’t the proper audience for this comic. However, if I was into this type of story, I could see its appeal.