This Comic Is Good
New comic strip by A. David Lewis!
A. David Lewis, the writer of last year’s best graphic novel, Some New Kind of Slaughter, has a nifty new webcomic strip running in The Boston Phoenix. It’s called Brave Play, and it’s drawn by Matt Roscetti. It takes place over the course of the 1948 baseball season (it began running just when the season [...]
Maybe a few more people will actually buy it this time!
Casanova is back, baby! And it’s at Marvel, through their Icon imprint. Whoo-bleepin’-hoo!!!!!!!!! Sadly, it will probably sell many, many, many more copies even though the original was $1.99 per issue and this … won’t be (to be fair, the issues will be combined, so the price won’t be too prohibitive). But damn, this is [...]
This “Comic” Is Good – Super Martian Robot Girl
Super Martian Robot Girl is a frequent segment on the popular children’s television series, Yo Gabba Gabba. Originally designed as a live action segment, it was reworked as a short animated story with artwork by Evan Dorkin and Sarah Dyer. A sample story has the young hero called to help a group of people on [...]
Death Note: You Guys Were Right, this Comics is Good.
Short one. Not much to say, I guess, but I am full of enthusiasm. Honestly, I did have some trepidation when I picked these up. This series was recommended in the comments to Burgas’ Fun Comics post, and it sounded interesting enough to overcome my anti-Manga bias. Which is pretty strong. (Except for Astro Boy.) [...]
1) I Killed Adolf Hitler and 2) The Living and the Dead: These Comics Are Good
1) Ya know, drawing good is kind of overrated. All that ultra-detailed George Perez crap, or that Jaime Hernandez thing where the figure drawing is note perfect every single time? “Meh,” sez I. We don’t need it. I figure this out ’cause I’m reading Jason’s “I Killed Adolf Hitler,” and I’m doing this thing that [...]
This Comic Is Good – Mr. Stuffins
Today, a new book comes out from Boom! Studios called Mr. Stuffins, and I think it quite nicely demonstrates the differences between a comic book story and a film script. This is the exact sort of high concept story that, as a film, would be so dumbed down and ruined by “too many cooks in [...]
This Comic Is Good – ‘The Mighty Skullboy Army’
‘Mighty Skullboy Army’ is a comic by Jacob Chabot (http://www.beetlebugcomics.com) which I first spotted in a Dark Horse anthology trade highlighting up-and-coming cartoonists. For ages, I mourned of ever seeing more. The art was crisp, the gags funny, and hell, I have a real weakness for monkeys and I’ll be damned if Unit 2 isn’t [...]
This Comic Is Good – Graphic Classics: Rafael Sabatini
Graphic Classics has now done more than a dozen comic collections adapting the works of great writers, and each one has been highly entertaining and quite affordable ($12) for the amount of story contained in each volume. Their most recent entry, devoted to the work of Rafael Sabatini, is no exception to this trend.
This Comic Is Good – The Lone and Level Sands
Ever hear the story about how the film Speed was originally intended to be a sequel of Die Hard? As it were, Die Hard, as such an interesting action film, completely changed the realm of action films in the scope of its influence, to the point where there was a cottage industry made up of [...]
This Comic Is Good – Action Philosophers
I hope you have your ceremonial Fred Van Lente wreathes lit up, for it is time to learn why I think that Action Philosophers (specifically, the first three issues), the comic that Fred Van Lente writes (and Ryan Dunleavy draws) from Evil Twin Comics, is a good comic.
This Comic Is Good – The Silencers: Black Kiss
As Fred Van Lente Day draws to a close for this year, after you have put out all the ceremonial Van Lente candles and cleared up all the wrapping paper from the presents, I will now explain to you why Silencers: Black Kiss, a comic from Moonstone Press, written by Fred Van Lente, and illustrated [...]
This Comic Is Good: The Surrogates
On a recommendation from beloved comicblogger Neilalien and a thirst for something different, I picked up the first two issues of Top Shelf’s new sci-fi miniseries The Surrogates. Dang. It’s good.
This Comic Is Good – Fin Fang Four
I am sure a bunch of good books came out this week, like Amazing Joy Buzzards, Astro City, Authority: Revolution and Conan, but I am confident enough in saying that, even before reading those books, that I think that Fin Fang Four was the best book of the week.
This Comic Is Good – Smoke and Guns
On the inside front cover of Smoke and Guns, the new graphic novel from AiT/Planet Lar, there is the following quote from the series, “That’s it. Nobody shoots my shoes.” That quote was an excellent choice to place there, as it sums up the spirit and style of this comic perfectly.
This Comic Is Good – Adventure Classics
Tom Pomplun sent me a copy of the latest collection of Eureka Productions‘ Graphic Classics series (Volume Twelve, to be precise), Adventure Classics, and I am really glad that he did, because it is a wonderful collection.
