Comics

Echoes #1 – Review

This comic asks the question, “What if you found out your father was a serial killer?” This book is as chilling as it is good as it dives deep in the psyche of a serial killer and takes you along for the ride. If you have a weak stomach you may want to stick with “Dexter” since this book will probably make you sick.

Brain looks like a normal person. He acts for the most part like a normal person. He has a wife and a new born son and a father with Alzheimer’s. Brian also has a medical condition that causes him to lose control of himself and see hallucinations and hear voices where there are none. He also must take a pill in order to avoid the hallucinations.

Kirby: Genesis

Jack Kirby: the “King of Comics.” Writer, artist and editor in all three ages of comics until his death in 1994, Kirby not only designed but created some of the most prolific characters of DC and Marvel including Galactus, the Fantastic Four, Etrigan the Demon and New Gods. Now, Dynamic Entertainment will bring all of Kirby’s characters together in a new limited series – “Kirby: Genesis.”

Buy, Pass, Read Marvel Edition

It’s been a while and due to the holiday’s I’m a little behind on my reading, but I’ve finally caught up! So this first batch is everything Marvel that I’ve read and expect another two editions to follow. Just as a refresher: “Buy” means you should pick up a copy because it’s either an instant classic or just a great book that you should be reading. A “Read” means if you have a friend who bought it then do so, but don’t go out of your way to get it. A “Skip” is for people that are following a certain title, but the issue may be a filler and not worth them picking up. And finally “Pass”, means that you shouldn’t waste your time or money on the book. Now on with the Marvel books!

Today The Human Torch Died

Today the Human Torch died and so did Marvel’s courtesy for their fans. Yesterday the internet and news outlets flooded with the news that today the Human Torch would die. Of course they didn’t say how or why, just that after fifty odd years the characters life would be over. The problem here is the fact that readers of Fantastic Four that have been following Jonathan Hickman and Dale Eaglesham’s run on the series for over a year now… didn’t know that. They weren’t supposed to find until today when the comic is actually released.

An Elegy For Amelia Johnson Leads The Way For Archaia’s OGN in 2011

Following the critical acclaim and success of titles like Tumor, Return of the Dapper Men, Syndrome and Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard in 2010, Archaia is excited to announce the first title that will kick off its original graphic novel slate for 2011: AN ELEGY FOR AMELIA JOHNSON, written by Andrew Rostan with art by Dave Valeza and Kate Kasenow. 

 
AN ELEGY FOR AMELIA JOHNSON (digest-sized, 5.25” x 8.25”, black and white, 128 pages, $14.95) tells the story of a young woman dying of cancer who asks her two best friends to travel across the country to hand-deliver personalized goodbye messages to individuals from her past. A moving portrait of friendship, hope, coping and loss, AN ELEGY FOR AMELIA JOHNSON speaks to all readers who have ever had to say goodbye to a loved one.

Savage Beauty #1 – Review

If you’re looking for a sexy jungle story about two women fighting the crimes of Africa then you’ll only be half right. This story is anything but goofy and uses the comic to look at a very realistic problem in the world, while presenting it in a very accessible way. Simply put this isn’t a kid’s comic, but it’s still really good.

Lacy and Liv are on their way to Africa to cover the Savannah for their magazine. They are two very beautiful women that look fresh out of college and act as such too. Meanwhile, in Africa a French man and his troops raid a UN food supply and murder the villagers. The French man has his way with a young girl as she begs for Anaya to save her. Anaya is a local myth about a female protector that helps the weak and innocent.

The Infinite Vacation #1 – Review

If you’re into ironic live-action in comics, parallel universes or mundane dialog from a character that is not only uninteresting, but boring as well… then I invite you to take the Infinite Vacation. If none of those things interest you because you’ve read it all before then take the issue and seal it away in the hopes that it will be worth something in twenty years when Nick Spencer is writing everything in comics.

Welcome to five comic pages explaining that you shouldn’t take off your name badge, because otherwise you’ll be lost to a life that you may not like. Or otherwise as Mark would say, “The difference between being spanked and spanking.” Then you’ll be greeted with three more pages of photo-shopped images of an actual person pitching the Infinite Vacation app to you. Of course the app is for your iphone 4 (they can travel to parallel worlds now if you didn’t know; it was with the last update that you didn’t do because you were waiting for the jail-broken version). The very creepy gentleman breaks the fourth wall and stares at the reader explaining the world of the Infinite Vacation in his generic sales pitch.