I’ve found that when it comes to Hack/Slash your either a fan or your not, nobody really falls in between. Incidentally the same can be said for the Hatchet series of horror films starring everybody’s favorite Jason Voorhees knock off Victor Crowley. Now whereas I am very much a fan of Hack/Slash, I have always been a bit lukewarm towards Hatchet. Still, when I heard that both of these decisive titles in the world of horror were going to be occupying the same thirty six pages of sequential splatter action I knew I had to check it out. For the…
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“Colonel Steve Austin. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology.” If you grew up in the mid to late ’70s then you probably watched The Six Million Dollar Man starring Lee Majors. I missed out on watching the series by a few years, but eventually watched it in syndication and the television movies that followed.  As a kid, Col. Steve Austin was a favorite of mine and a character I pretended to be every chance I got as a kid playing with friends. I have always had a place in my heart for this…
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Brian Lee O’Malley may be best known for the Scott Pilgrim series, but Lost at Sea (published in 2003) was his first original work. I recently stumbled upon a 2008 second edition which turned up in the library where I work. I love the Scott Pilgrim film but wasn’t overly impressed by the graphic novel series, as I thought it was far too drawn out and featured (like life, I know) too many inconsequential elements. Lost at Sea is a smaller, self-contained story with an intriguing premise, so I thought I should give it a go. Our protagonist is a…
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Is there any meat left on the shambling corpse of the zombie genre?  Because Boom Studios/Evil Ink Comics newest mini-series Key of Z certainly makes a compelling case that there is. Granted a lot of comic fans, myself included, believe that after The Walking Dead no other comic series can possibly do anything with zombies that hasn’t been done yet or done better. Which is why whenever I see a solicitation for a high concept zombie tale I always make sure to pick it up. Good or bad high concepts are good for comics, but the amazing thing about Key…
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I always thought Haunt was a weird title to come out of Image. Alright, maybe not weird that it was coming out of Image, but weird that it was coming out of Image at this point in its history. In the last few years Image has proven itself as the place to go to find innovative and challenging creator owned books such as The Walking Dead, I Kill Giants, and Chew after growing up from its original incarnation as a sort of skater punk artist studio. Original Image titles such as Spawn and Savage Dragon are being published (and depending who…
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It seems like just yesterday I wrote up a review of a little Kickstarter project trying to raise money for an eccentric little comic book called Footprints. Since that review, the Kickstarter has closed after successfully hitting its fundraising goal. Now, having been even more successful than anticipated, the budding creative team composed of Joey Esposito (writer) and Jonathan Moore (artist) has recently released Footprints issue 2. Not everyone might think a cryptozoological mystery series is for them, but thanks to Kickstarter and now publishers 215ink, you get the opportunity to find out. One hundred and ninety-nine different pledges gave…
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For better or worse, you can thank Ghostbusters for the ginger haired caffeine addicted bearded wonder you see typing before you. Viewing it for the first time all those years ago was one of the more profound “ah HA!” moments I have had over the course of my life, acting as the catalyst for the comedy nerd I was in high school and the horror hound I have become over the last couple of years. For those reasons, you can understand why I was a little hesitant when IDW announced they were making an ongoing Ghostbusters comic. I read the…
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It can’t be easy being a werewolf in popular culture. Whereas their blood sucking pointy fanged brethren have invaded movies, television and comics the lycanthrope has languished. Sure they have a couple of notable contributions under there belt: An American Werewolf in London, The Howling, and Wolf (Which is awesome until the last thirty minutes) but those are films. What about comics? If I dig deep I can think of two off the top of my head: Marvel’s Werewolf by Night and Archaia’s recent miniseries Feeding Ground. Now Famous Monsters of Film Land is adding to this furry little corner…
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Chris Sims isn’t a name everyone is familiar with, but those of us who know him are generally big fans. Having started out blogging over at his personal site The Invincible Super Blog and eventually being hired by AOL’s Comics Alliance, Sims has made a name for himself for both being the Internet’s foremost Batmanologist and ripping apart comics that can at best be described as supremely lame. Sims also creates his own Comics on the web in the form of the faux medical drama Awesome Hospital, in addition to various other projects under the Action Age, the latest of…
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I love this book. There are so many awesome things about it that I don’t even know where to start. In case you have a short attention span, I’m gonna go ahead and spoil the Final Verdict: BUY. BUY. BUY. IDW publishing’s re-imagining of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had brought together everything I love about TMNT. Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman (Heavy Metal) is back writing stories for the fearsome foursome for the first time in, well, quite a while. (Eastman and co-creator Peter Laird have had their differences.) Joining him is script writer Tom Waltz, artist Dan Duncan, and colorist…
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