I began reading comic books in the early nineties. There was no local comic shop in my tiny town, but I was able to use a mail-order service, and a few weeks later a package would arrive at home with my new issues, catalog, and if I was lucky a free promotional comic. One such time, I received a copy of Bone #1 (8th printing), and I was transported into the adventures of the Bone cousins. All those years ago I was able to read […]
Return of the Dark Knight
I was introduced to Frank Miller’s work in the 80’s when I was given some issues of Daredevil. His art is his own style, but his storytelling – the way he wrote and his panel by panel flow – drew me in and I became a fan. Back then I had to purchase most of my comics via mail-order with my hard earned cash (part-time job as a teenager), so I wasn’t able to collect much of Miller’s work. My next Miller purchase would be […]
“Oh there ain’t no other way. Baby I was born this way.”
With graphic novels, you can unashamedly say that you bought a book based entirely on its cover. What intrigued me about the cover of Monstress was the stunningly beautiful artwork juxtaposed with the title, which clearly implied something, well, monstrous. What’s inside is a beautifully written high fantasy story that blends Eastern and Western art and deals with issues like war, racism, and slavery and also features wonderfully complex female characters. The story is centered around Maika Halfwolf an Arcanics. Arcanics are human-animal hybrids […]
“We’re all wired into a survival trip now.”
The first volume of Transmetropolitin is almost twenty years old and is still as disturbingly as relevant as it was in 1998. Warren Ellis’ twisted dystopian future doesn’t seem so far fetched given current events. I didn’t catch it at in its original release, much to my shame. I was worried that it wouldn’t hold up over time. I can’t say I’m 100% pleased to discover I was wrong. Spider Jerusalem a journalist who, by Ellis’ own admission was modeled after Hunter S. Thompson, […]