Comic Reviews
Review time! with The Bean volumes 1 and 2
If Greg Hatcher likes this, it must be good!
What I bought – 11 April 2012
“An empire that can provide a prince, one who might end up succeeding to the throne, a life of childish foolishness and happiness until the age of twenty-nine is necessarily doomed to collapse, dissolution, and annihilation.” (Orhan Pamuk, from The Black Book)
Review time! with Afrika
Oh, those wacky Belgian comic book creators! Can’t they just write in English like the rest of the civilized world?
Review time! with Band #1-3
- by Greg Burgas
- in Comic Reviews
I have a plan to review all the comics I got in Seattle plus the many other stuff I already had, and it begins with this book! Three issues, no waiting!
What I bought – Special Emerald City Comic Con edition!
I bought a bunch of big comics in Seattle last weekend, but I also got several single issues, so I thought I’d review them all in one post. You know you love reviews of obscure, self-published comics! Yes you do!
What I bought – 4 April 2012
Those slightly heavy, slightly watery eyes are enough to make me realize that the drama between the two has not yet ended: he continues coming to this café every evening to see her, to open the old wound again, perhaps also to know who is walking her home this evening; and she comes to this [...]
Avengers vs. X-Men #1 Review
One of the hardest things it seems for the first issues of major events to handle is the ability to balance setting up the overall story (which is a very important part of such events) and giving the first issue heft of its own. Typically, the end result is that you have first issues which [...]
Jinx Review
Today, Archie Comics is releasing an original graphic novel, Jinx (collecting stories that originally appeared in digital-only stories outside of the first chapter, which was serialized in three issues of Life With Archie). Written by J. Torres, with pencils by Rick Burchett, inks by Terry Austin, colors by Mark McNabb and letters by John Workman. [...]
Trade paperbacks, older editions, and miscellaneous for March 2012
And … we’re back! Let’s see what’s what under the cut, shall we?
What I bought – 28 March 2012
“No, she’s sincere enough – ain’t we all – but like the rest of us she doesn’t want to pay too high a price for it.” (George MacDonald Fraser, from Mr. American)
What I bought – 21 March 2012
And so I stood perfectly still with folded arms, allowing my eyes to receive the tracery of apian flight, so like curling silver strings in the air. White butterflies, faint as powder on a mirror, yet imbued with the mysterious force of life, hovered and flitted, half-powered by their own efforts and half-carried by the [...]
Review time! with Whispers in the Walls
Oh, Gothic horror. No one can stay mad at you!
What I bought – 14 March 2012
‘We are happy lovers. Aren’t we? And happiness makes one stupid. Happiness and wisdom do not go together, just as body and thought do not go together. Because only pain is the thought of the body. In other words, happy people become stupid people. It is only when they get tired of their happiness that [...]
Review time! with Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes
- by Greg Burgas
- in Comic Reviews
It’s a Bryan Talbot book, so you know it will look nice!
Review time! with The Silence of Our Friends
I got this for the Nate Powell art, but I stayed for the racial tension!
