Comic Reviews

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,...

Review: Dark Days: The Forge #1 "If Dark Days: The Forge #1 is any indication of what’s to come in Dark Nights: Metal, it’s clear that DC’s Rebirth era has firm grasp of what makes for a big, bold,...

Review: Hawkeye #7 "Hawkeye #7 demonstrates once again that the creative team has a keen grasp of who their characters are and where they want those characters to move narratively, while never forgetting...

Marvano’s juxtaposition of the sun-drenched fields of England and the explosion-ripped pitch of the nights above Berlin is beautiful and terrible, and his portrayal of loss and love in a world gone savage...

Review: Jem: The Misfits #5 "Jem: The Misfits #5 is a gorgeous concoction of the sweet and the salty, just like we like our Misfits, and the creative team could not have let the rockers belt out a more...