Comic Reviews

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,...

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...