By Lisa Fary
John has been bugging me to read Love and Rockets for years. I haven’t resisted just to be contrary; it’s just that his collections on our bookshelf, Locas and Palomar, weigh about twenty pounds. There’s just no comfortable way to read a hardcover book that big.
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By Rhea Dee
One of my biggest, geekiest dreams is to someday see slasher films (like Friday the 13th) and girl revenger flicks (like I Spit On Your Grave) fuse together to create a super slasher-revenger movie that takes the final girl past survivor into revenger. How awesome would it be if at the end of Texas Chainsaw Massacre the final girl stopped screaming and asked the guy who rescued her to take her back to the house so she could finish off the killers that killed her friends?
By Sonia Aurora
Oh Ash, how I love thee…let me count the ways…
But first I have one bone to pick…where my purchase of Evil Dead Issue #4 went unshipped for 4 months (I swore I pre-ordered it), and then I realized it had not only been published but I never got it, and now it was out of stock.
Damn, damn technology. (And thank you, Ebay).
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By Jessica Pepper
Who knew that spandex tights and iron suits were in this season? Apparently the curators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art knew and they also asked some of the comic book world’s most famous names to lend a few choice fashions from their wardrobes.
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By Lisa Fary I’ve always thought Sherlock Holmes was a tool, and finally someone is overtly showing him as such. Thank you, Omaha Perez. Related Stuff:
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By Lisa Fary Pigeons are creepy. My sophomore roommate came from an affluent, immaculately landscaped sub-development in South Florida where, apparently, she had never seen a pigeon. My roommate had the genius idea of putting a birdseed bell out on our balcony ledge, which drew a mini-flock of permanent pigeon squatters (and all the pigeon [...]
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By Sonia Aurora I love Bruce Campbell. That’s not even the heavy statement it once was for me, seeing as I also love my dog Chewy (yes, short for Chewbacca) and my amazing boyfriend who lives in Iowa (not Ottawa, silly friend Melinda). But my love for Bruce precedes both of those, probably my first [...]
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by Teresa Jusino Alas, Y: The Last Man has completed its 60-issue run. I would argue that it’s not only one of the best comic series ever, but also one of the best pieces of reading, period. You’ve seen in my previous reviews that there are certain collections/issues I enjoyed more than others, but as [...]
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by Teresa Jusino The final five-part story arc of Y: The Last Man, created by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra. Related Stuff:
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When we first spoke to Ace Masters, publisher of Masterpiece Comics, at the 2007 Phoenix Comicon, he gave us an upbeat rundown on his books, clearly excited about the stories he was telling. At the 2008 Phoenix Con, Masters had a different story – that of an indy guy in a tough market that’s closing [...]
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Comic artist Patrick Scherberger broke into Marvel after winning the first Comic Book Idol contest in 2004. Since then, he’s become best known for his pencils on Marvel Adventures Spider-Man. We caught him sketching at the 2008 Phoenix Comicon. Related Stuff:
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As a high school student, I met with my guidance counselor once, and that was to drop band class for another study hall. I’d already been accepted to FSU, but asked her to help with, you know, guidance on picking a major. She snarled and said, “I do class schedules. Just pick something you like.” [...]
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I can’t help but love Blazin’ Brandy. She’s a 16th century girl with a split personality – one of which is a trigger happy big game hunter – stuck on a monster inhabited island. We first discovered Blazin’ Brandy and her creator, Stephanie Lesniak, at last year’s Phoenix Comicon. We caught up with Lesniak at [...]
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by Lisa Fary Slop is really disturbing. The collection, published by 803 Studios, is an anthology of shorts centering on Remus, a pig farmer with a nasty habit of murdering hookers and feeding them to his pigs. The most horrifying part is that the stories in Slop are inspired by an actual guy. Robert Pickton, [...]
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by Teresa Jusino This month brings us another issue written by Joss Whedon before he turns the series over to Drew Goddard for a highly-anticipated four-issue story arc. Issue 11, A Beautiful Sunset, is a solid standalone. Related Stuff:
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by Lisa Fary Five Shots, published by Creative Elamentz Studios, collects five short comics telling the stories of private investigator Jocasta “Jay” Nova. Written by Jemir Johnson and drawn by a variety of artists, Five Shots shows off Johnson’s promising style of storytelling, but falls short in some areas. Related Stuff:
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By Teresa Jusino Now that Y: The Last Man is at an end, you have all the time in the world to read the 60-issue series, and you should. Here is a glimpse of the remaining collections of Y and what I thought of them. Related Stuff:
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by Teresa Jusino Important Characters: Agent 711, the Setauket Ring, Leah and the Sons of Arizona, P.J. Yorick and Co. travel to Allenspark, Colorado in Safeword (issues #18-20), where 355 and Allison take Ampersand to a hospital to get him necessary medicine while 355′s friend and retired Culper Ring, Agent 711, forces Yorick to confront [...]
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