Comic Reviews

While Marvel’s Inhumans characters are visually striking and have a unique conceit behind their concept, as I’ve said before, some of the heroes and villains of the superhuman race can be difficult to...

  X-Men members Rogue and Gambit have had an often tumultuous relationship since the two first met in the X-books decades ago. The two have attributes that have tended to work at keeping the other at...

Transformation is one of the through-lines that we’ve seen over and again in Batman’s nearly 80-year history: reinventing oneself to evolve, to grow, to adapt to ever-changing environments and...

This article contains spoilers for Thanos #16. Be ye warned. One of the most exciting aspects of the early days of Marvel Comics is the creators’ willingness to go big, bold, and bombastic, injecting an...

Whether in pop culture or in mythology, the devil is always the most sinister and unnerving not when he’s snarling and flapping leathery wings and puffing his red-scaled chest, but when he smiles and uses...

  Preview art for page 1 of "Going Down Easy" by Francesco Francavilla. So, I picked up the DC Holiday Special 2017, and came away really pleased. There are eleven very different stories in the...

Aaron, Stewart, and McCaig's The Other Side delivers a strange and terrible beauty where the heat, humidity, fever, stench, and mania of the Vietnam War is palpable. If you don’t already own this one, you...

Knights of the Skull: Barbarossa. Cover by Wayne Vansant. Wayne Vansant’s Knights of the Skull volumes 1 (Blitzkrieg) & 2 (Barbarossa) are young adult graphic histories tracing the development of the...

Johnny Canuck: Compendium, 1942-1946. art by Leo Bachle. Undoubtedly, one of the most famous images in comic book history is the cover for Captain America Comics #1 where Cap marks his premiere by...

The Death of Stalin is a brilliant, darkly funny portrait of the machinations of the powerful, and a deeply moving study of the people who are both the victims of - and victors over - their rulers. In short,...