Comic Review: Angel and Faith Season 10 #18

• Script by Victor Gischler
• Art by Cliff Richards
• Colors by Michelle Madsen
• Letters by Richard Starkings and Jimmy Betancourt
• Cover by Scott Fischer
• Variant Cover by Mike Norton and Michelle Madsen
• Published by Dark Horse Comics

This season of Angel and Faith has been a little strange. It started with the title characters on different continents, and that came back for this arc focusing on how Faith fares in London without Angel. With his arc in the Buffy series coming to an end, this arc had to come to a close to bring him back. Unfortunately, it ends rather abruptly, causing an awkward end to an otherwise solid arc.

Comic Review: Death Head #1

This was originally posted as a review for Word of the Nerd. Reposted here with slight modifications.

• Writer: Zack Keller and Nick Keller
• Artist: Joanna Estep
• Colors: Kelly Fitzpatrick
• Letters: John J. Hill
• Cover: E. M. Gist
• Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Dark Horse has a long and proud history with horror comics, and Death Head #1 is just their latest entry in that genre. I've never been the biggest horror fan, but I'm always willing to try anything. Unfortunately, this first issue ends up being more than a bit of a let down.

Comic Review: Aliens vs. Zombies #1

This was originally posted as a review for Word of the Nerd. Reposted here with slight modifications.

• Story: Joe Brusha and Ralph Tedesco
• Writer: Joe Brusha
• Artwork: Vincenzo Riccardi
• Colors: Grostieta
• Letters: Micah Myers and Ghost Glyph Studios
• Cover: Sean Chen and Ivan Nunes
• Publisher: Zenescope Entertainment

Sometimes, a story can sell me with the premise alone. Whether it can be summed up in a couple sentences, or just in the title, if it's a short premise that can get me excited, it will take me a long way. For that, Aliens vs. Zombies #1 hits it right on, with the premise fitting nicely in the title, and the longer premise hooks me further, past even a somewhat lackluster beginning.

An explanation and apology for lack of posts

It's been a little while since I've posted anything here, and it's not something that I feel good about. I like writing, and I like writing here, and I spend a lot of time here with comics, which is something else that I love. The problem, as always, is that life gets in the way.

As of yesterday, I have moved from Michigan to Georgia, a very long trip that involved a lot of things taking way more time than I expected them to, which is just how it always works when you're moving. I've barely had the time to read the comics that I was going to review, no less actually review them, and whenever I've tried to work on other writing (I promise that I, some day, will write more than just comic reviews), I've never had enough time for it. Even when I had time to write or something, I was just too exhausted to do it.

I know that I don't have a lot of readers, but I like the fact that I get anyone reading this at all. To those of you who read this, I'm sorry that I've fallen behind. I cannot promise it will get back up to speed right away, but I will do what I can to get it back up and running as soon as possible. I might have another week of nothing getting posted as I continue getting moved in and start working on writing again, getting articles back in the pipeline, but hopefully this will be back on its feet again soon. Moving is hard, especially moving so far, but now that it's done, hopefully I pick back up and start writing and posting consistently again.

Comic Review: Batman '66 #25

Despite not realizing it, this is an issue that I've been waiting on for a while. Well, half of it is; this is one of the issues with two stories in it, and the first one is something that I've been looking forward to. Night of the Harlequin features the return of Harley Quinn (spelled Harlequin here, but I just prefer using the other spelling), and I've wanted to see more of her since she first appeared. The second one, Bad Men, is probably the better of the two stories in this issue, but the first is the one I have been waiting for.

Comic Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Ten #17

At risk of spoiling my opinion of this issue, I liked it well enough. It's not bad, it's not badly constructed or headscratchingly weird or anything like that to make me dislike it. The thing is, I've read this issue before, or seen it in an episode of either TV series. Everything in the Archeus arcs we've dealt with has been oddly repetitive, and it's feeling like they think they're running out of new things to do.

Comic Review: Wolf #1

I don't understand Ales Kot. I've read a couple of his comics before, and even reviewed one before, but I didn't get it there either. Maybe he's a genius that I'm too stupid to get, maybe he just works in a style that I don't really like, or some combination or variation on those, but Wolf is yet another comic of his that I just don't get.