Comic Picks – Week of 23/08/2017
Sif: Journey Into Mystery Complete Collection Kathryn Immonen & Kelly Sue DeConnick (w), Valerie Schiti, Ryan Stegman, Pepe Larraz (a) Marvel Comics Liz says: Though it was always meant to be a finite…
Sif: Journey Into Mystery Complete Collection Kathryn Immonen & Kelly Sue DeConnick (w), Valerie Schiti, Ryan Stegman, Pepe Larraz (a) Marvel Comics Liz says: Though it was always meant to be a finite…
Henry & Glenn Forever + Ever HC Tom Neely, Various (w/a) IWDY Comics Liz says: Tom Neely’s Henry & Glenn series imagines the two eponymous punk icons (Black Flag’s Henry Rollins and Glenn…
A modern hero blockbuster with a Brat Pack blueprint, Spider-Man: Homecoming scales back the bombast to tell a humbler story that’s as much about the hardships of high school as the perils of being a…
Shade The Changing Girl Volume 1: Earth Girl Made Easy Cecil Castellucci (w) Marley Zarcone (a), Kelly Fitzpatrick (c) DC Comics Liz says: Loma Shade of the planet Meta is restless and looking…
Based on the number of customers we have on a weekly basis asking us, “Where’s the best place to start with [insert character here]?” – we’ve started a series of reading lists, recommending…
Holy Rotten Tomatoes, Batman! The DC Extended Universe is in trouble! Their freshness scores are plummeting to critical levels: 55% and dropping! 27%… 25%… Things aren’t looking good! This looks like a job…
Spider-Man: Brand New Day Complete Collection vol. 3 Various (w,a) Marvel Comics Liz says: Brand New Day got a lot of hate in the beginning for wiping Peter and Mary Jane’s marriage from…
Iceman #1 Sina Grace (w), Alessandro Vitti (a) Marvel Comics Liz says: In 2015, writer Brian Michael Bendis outed original X-man Bobby Drake (AKA Iceman) as gay. This week, as part of ResurreXion…
Deadly Class Volume 5 Rick Remender (w), Wes Craig (a) Image Comics Liz says: Wow! ‘Worth the wait’ is a massive understatement. After the mind-blowing, heart-shattering fourth volume of this series, I decided…
Just because a film is dark doesn’t make it deep; in the post-Christopher Nolan landscape of superhero films, ‘dark’ can just as easily mean ‘dreary’. Violence for the sake of violence is dull…