Comic Review: Starve #1

Starve surprised me. Like most Image #1 issues, I didn't know anything about it that I couldn't get from the cover. When I started reading it, I was disheartened by the first few pages, looking like a sort of story I'm too familiar with and do not enjoy reading. Then it starts to change.

Comic Review: Angel and Faith Season 10 #15

This is a difficult issue to have much to say about, since at the same time it feels like an almost standalone story, but also serves as some connective tissue between the previous issue of this series and the most recent issue of the Buffy series.

Comic Review: Groot #1

Probably the biggest surprise from the Guardians of the Galaxy movie was how much everyone loved Groot; I had expected Rocket to come out as the "surprise" favorite of the movie, but Groot took that place, an impressive feat for a character with such a limited vocabulary. Whether a direct result of that success, it no doubt factors into this new series, where giving a talking tree with a three word vocabulary the lead in an ongoing series, but Marvel has managed to make a lot of crazy work, so why wouldn't they try it here?

Comic Review: Airboy #1

The problem with trying to review this comic is that I am probably going to oversell it. I have so much enthusiasm for it that, if I just let it out in words, I'm probably going to convince you it is the simultaneous return of Jesus and Gandhi or something like that. If you want the short version, just go and read this comic. Seriously, just get it - it will be worth it. Do you need convincing with some specifics? Okay, fine, I'll give some, but not complete spoilers, because one thing in this should be for you to discover.

Comic Review: Sons of the Devil #1

(I tend to read every #1 issue that comes out from Image Comics. Are they all good? Well, let's find out.)

Reading this comic gave me a feeling that was distinctly like when I read Low for the first time. That's not because of any similarity when it comes to content, style, or anything tangible in the comic itself. In both these books, I read it having no idea what was going on in the story, just kind of following a series of events as they went along. Then, when I get to the end, there's a letter from the author, in which they explain the inspiration for the story and the premise, at which point my reaction is both "Now it makes sense" and "Why the hell didn't you put that in the book?"

Comic Review: Material #1

(I tend to read every #1 issue that comes out from Image Comics. Are they all good? Well, let's find out.)

The way I'll explain this is to summarize, as far as I can tell, the storylines in this book:

1) We start with a philosophy professor, giving a lecture about how technology is destroying us, somewhere in the vein of Henry David Thoreau or Ted Kaczynski. When pushed about it by his daughter, who suggests he just go out and live in the woods, he claims that he cannot because he is addicted to porn, and she tells him that he's going to be a grandfather. While he is despairing about what kind of world this is to bring a child into, he is contacted by someone claiming to be the first self-aware artificial intelligence.

Comic Review: Wayward #8

Technically, this is an Image Comics series by American creators, published in full size and full color. Despite that, I call this series manga. I know a lot of people will disagree with me, but at a certain point, when you take enough cues from something else, including the setting, character types, worldbuilding, general style, and tone, it’s useless to try and make a distinction between them.