Tag: Vertigo Comics
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Trillium by Jeff Lemire – A Book Review
All the accolades celebrating this book are accurate – it is a very special work. To briefly summarize, Trillium is a story that takes place in both 1921 and 3797. William Pike is a soldier trying to find himself again after the Great War, and Nika Tensmith is a scientist trying to use the plant…
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Fables: Cubs In Toyland (Vol. 18) by Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham – A Book Review
Perhaps the most satisfying Fables volume I’ve read in some time, Cubs In Toyland is also the most emotionally potent. In this edition, Bigby and Snow White’s child, Therese, travels to Toyland in search of adventure after she missed being named the North Wind. When first she arrives, the toys treat her as royalty, and…
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Prince of Cats by Ron Wimberly – A Book Review
Set in Brooklyn, Prince of Cats lauds itself as The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet’s B-Side. Though it uses Shakespeare’s classic work as the inspiration, Prince of Cats is its own entity, a graphic novel unlike any other, an adaptation, a reimagining, a twist on a story that was already a twist itself. And though…
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DMZ: On The Ground (Volume I) – A Graphic Novel Review
I picked this up on a whim while visiting my local library and DMZ: On The Ground grabbed me by the jugular and wouldn’t let go within two pages. Even though the premise of DMZ has been done before, author Brian Wood delivered his take on a second American civil war with such adrenaline and…
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The Sandman: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman – A Book Review
I’ve heard much about The Sandman series for many years, and so last summer I finally decided to experience it for myself. The first volume was adequate, but it didn’t “wow” me as much as I expected. Probably because, by this point in time, Gaiman’s concepts had been copied and recopied so many times by…
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