Rich Douek and the creative team, including Brett Barkley, Jules Rivera, and Nic Shaw, have come together with IDW Publishing to bring the previously self-published Gutter Magic to your local comics shop this January! Gutter Magic is an urban fantasy series that takes the unique approach of magic as a commodity, rather […]
The #NerdsRead Pull List – December 2, 2015
Sam found the penultimate issue of John Flood to be somewhat of a letdown, but continued to enjoy The Woods, both from BOOM! Studios. Kylee tried out Mystery Girl, a new series offering from Dark Horse, that impressed her with the boring, everyday bits more than the story itself. Jackson continues to enjoy East […]
Answers and Intrigue Guaranteed – No Questions Asked in ‘Mystery Girl #1’
Mystery Girl #1 Author: Paul Tobin Artists: Alberto J. Albuquerque Release Date: December 2, 2015 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Genre(s): Mystery Rating: ★★★☆☆ Review Spoilers: Moderate In a twist on the classic detective story, Trine Hampstead already has all of the answers to the mysteries – the catch is that no one can ask her […]
The Dark Knight III isn’t the Comic You Want to Love or the One You Want to Hate
For better or much, much worse, Frank Miller’s reputation has proceeded him in comics for something like 30 years. At its best, Miller’s name is a reference to a genre-blending master of form and function, who re-branded Daredevil as a character before permanently redefining Batman as a character and concept. […]
The #NerdsRead Pull List – November 25, 2015
Fight Club 2 continues to be the bane of Kylee’s existence and she continues to read it out of sheer spite. At least Jackson enjoyed DC Comics’ The Omega Men and Grayson. He also is still on board the Saga train with the rest of us comics readers. All of his comics fro this week’ […]
How to Prepare for Star Wars: The Force Awakens
There are only nineteen days to go before the Force awakens here in the United States – and even fewer for some of our international readers. Ten years ago most of us had simply assumed the saga was complete and that we had all the Star Wars movies we would ever […]
The #NerdsRead Pull List – November 18, 2015
Sam took a look at BOOM! Studios’ offerings this week – with Giant Days reeling her back in and Lumberjanes continuing to impress. Kylee looks forward to every new issue of The Paybacks, if only to see what z-team hero the creators can come up with next. Jackson looks at a rather niche Batman Europa from […]
Holiday Gift Guide 2015: Comics For the Comic Book Nerds You Love
For years, the comics market has expanded, with more independent publishers and the biggest publishers putting out more and more books. Finding what’s good and what would make the ideal gift for the comics lover of your life can be difficult, especially if you’re not a comics fan to begin […]
The #NerdsRead Pull List – November 11, 2015
This week from BOOM! Studios, Sam reviewed Lantern City and Kylee is enjoying the latest offering of Zodiac Starforce. She also reviewed Dark Horse’s new series Last Sons of America and continues to enjoy Harrow County, though this issue may have been the series’ first stumble. Jackson wasn’t thrilled with the first issue of Superman: American […]
Marvel Takes Wildly Different Approaches on All-New Wolverine #1 & Illuminati #1
The line-wide relaunch that is All-New All-Different Marvel is giving an interesting look at the way the company approaches its marquee characters and teams versus the way it takes on riskier characters and concepts. For their biggest characters, Marvel’s making marked, exciting changes but grounding those changes with fairly conservative […]