Tag: graphic novel
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Spaceman by Brian Azzarello – A Book Review
With art by 100 Bullets collaborator Eduardo Risso, Azzarello has created a bleak, unsettling landscape where the very rich are well taken care of, and the rest of us are left to survive by any means necessary. Spaceman follows the story of Orson, one of a group of genetically engineered astronauts meant to explore Mars. …
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The Manhattan Projects: Science. Bad. by Hickman and Pitarra – A Book Review
I’ve heard a lot of very good things about The Manhattan Projects, so I thought I’d head to my local library and see if they had the first volume. Luckily for me, they did! I’m fascinated by the concept of the book. As we all know, The Manhattan Project introduced the first atomic bomb. This…
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Batwoman: To Drown the World by J.H. Williams III – A Book Review
After giving Batwoman: Hydrology a rave review, I’m saddened to report that To Drown the World is the exact opposite of its predecessor. Hydrology had astonishing art, extraordinary characterization, and an interesting plot. To Drown the World has none of that, which is odd, considering it’s a continuation of Hydrology. I think a major component…
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Wonder Woman: Guts by Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang – A Book Review
Guts is the second volume of Wonder Woman’s New 52 iteration. Now, I have to admit, I’ve never particularly been a Wonder Woman fan. I mean, sure, as a young boy, I liked her just as much as the next young boy, but I never read her comics. But, when DC decided to (sort of)…
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Chew: Space Cakes by John Layman – A Book Review
I’ve been a huge fan of Chew since I ran across it in the public library soon after the first volume’s release. An intelligent, action-packed, wickedly funny epic, Chew is the story of Tony Chu, a cop who can basically see the past of anything he eats – and I do mean anything. By this…
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The New Avengers, Vol. 6: Revolution – A Graphic Novel Review
I really enjoyed this volume of New Avengers. The title gets a bit of a shake-up after the events of Civil War with a revamped, underground Avengers team featuring a black-suited Spider-Man, Luke Cage, Wolverine, Spider-Woman and the welcomed additions of Iron Fist, Dr. Strange and Ronin (a much-missed old friend wearing new duds). The…
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier – A Graphic Novel Review
I’ll never forget when I first read The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I knew Alan Moore was a god among men in the comic book world, but even I wasn’t prepared for the majesty of his storytelling, the potency of his intelligence, or the power of his inspirational imagination. Thus, when news surfaced that a…
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Y: The Last Man: Motherland – A Graphic Novel Review
In case you’re not familiar with Brian K. Vaughan’s Y: The Last Man, the premise is that a catastrophic plague has wiped every man on the planet but one, Yorick Brown. For an inexplicable reason, Yorick and his pet monkey, Ampersand, were spared. Now Yorick desperately wants to traverse a planet in chaos as women…
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Preacher, Volume I: Gone To Texas – A Graphic Novel Review
This is the first volume in a nine volume series collecting the acclaimed Vertigo series. For those of you who don’t know, Vertigo is a division of DC Comics, those folks who bring you Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. However, Vertigo is certainly not for kids, typically dealing with very mature subject matter and adult…
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