Okay, so, we’re a week behind on this. We know. We’re still getting the hang of things! Still, this week we’ve got a lot of really great comics for you guys. We have reviews for fourteen comics courtesy of three of our wonderful staff members. We’re looking at some of […]
Deep State Vol. 1 Brings the Moon Landing Home
Deep State Vol 1: Darker Side of the Moon Author: Justin Jordan Artist: Ariela Kristantina Colorist: Ben Wilsonham Release Date: April 14, 2015 Publisher: BOOM! Studios Source: BOOM! Studios Press Site Genre(s): Sci-Fi Rating: ★★★☆☆ Review Spoilers: Mild GoodReads | Amazon John Harrow doesn’t exist, and his job is to make sure that other things don’t […]
The #NerdsRead Pull List: April 1, 2015
Welcome to the very first edition of our new, weekly series of comic reviews! As you all know, we’ve got a lot of avid comic book readers here at Nerdophiles. There are a lot of series we follow each week but up until now we’ve focused primarily on doing trade reviews. […]
UFOlogy #1 from BOOM! Studios Makes Me Want To Believe
UFOlogy #1 (of 6) Writer: James Tynion IV and Noah J. Yuenkel Artist: Matthew Fox Release Date: April 1, 2015 Publisher: BOOM! Studios Source: BOOM! Studios DRC Genre(s): Science Fiction Rating: ★★★★☆ Review Spoilers: Moderate BOOM! Studios had me at ‘James Tynion IV’ with this one. The Woods has been my favorite on-going series […]
Butterfly #2: Looking at the Past
Butterfly #2 Author: Arash Amel, Marguerite Bennett Artists: Antonio Fuso Release Date: October 14th, 2014 Publisher: Boom! Studios Source: Boom! Studios press archive Genre(s): Espionage, spy-fiction Rating: ★★★☆☆ Review Spoilers: Low Butterfly #2 once again presents a typical spy thriller with a slightly atypical lead character. At the end of the first issue, it was revealed that Rebecca’s father […]
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Nerdophiles Picks: Favorite Comics of 2014
From trades, to single issues, to one-shots, to ongoing series, we can’t get enough of comics! Nerdophiles does its fair amount of coverage for comics, but the industry is big and we have barely even scratched the surface here. We’ve got just some of our personal staff favorites picked out from 2014. If […]
Adventure Time: Bitter Sweets is an epic story of friendship and responsibility
Adventure Time: Bitter Sweets Author: Kate Leth Artist: Zachary Sterling Release Date: November 5, 2014 Publisher: BOOM! Studios Source: BOOM! Studios Press Site Genre(s): All-Ages, Comedy, Drama Rating: ★★★★☆ Review Spoilers: Low Comixology | Things From Another World | Amazon Every ten years, Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum has to go on a journey to the outer edges of Ooo […]
Butterfly #1: Enter a World of Espionage
Butterfly #1 Author: Arash Amel, Marguerite Bennett Artists: Antonio Fuso Release Date: September 24th, 2014 Publisher: Boom! Studios Source: Boom! Studios press archive Genre(s): Espionage, spy-fiction Rating: ★★★☆☆ Review Spoilers: Low Espionage, family drama, and guns, oh my! The latest from Boom! Studios, Butterfly #1, is a tale of a young girl trying to figure out the spy world. Set […]
A Tale of Two Dogs: A Review of the First Issues of Teen Dog and Wild’s End
Teen Dog #1 (of 8) Author: Jake Lawrence Artist: Jake Lawrence Release Date: September 10, 2014 Publisher: Boom! Studios Source: Boom! Studios Press Site Genre(s): Comedy Rating: ????? Review Spoilers: Low For a while after reading the first issue of Teen Dog, I had the hardest time understanding the hype behind it. I mean, I think I liked it, […]
Cloaks #1: The Pledge
Cloaks #1 (of 4) Author: Caleb Munroe Artists: Mariano Novarro Release Date: September 3, 2014 Publisher: Boom! Studios Source: Boom! Studios Press Site Genre(s): Action, Mystery Rating: ★★★☆☆ Review Spoilers: Low I don’t know what it is about magicians that make them the perfect stars of capers. Perhaps it is the angle of that you’re never supposed […]
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