Category Archives: Graphic Literature

Matt Wagner’s Grendel: Devil by the Deed

Posted on 5th August 2016 by Robert

Matt Wagner’s Grendel, as I’ve mentioned before, was in many ways revolutionary. In spite of the initial, mostly negative, reaction, it proved to be one of the milestones in the development of comics as a form. Some of the thematic … Continue reading →

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Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt, and Alberto Ponticelli’s Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E.: Volume 1: War of The Monsters / Volume 2: Secrets of The Dead

Posted on 2nd August 2016 by Cat Eldridge

When DC created the first wave of what they called the “The New 52!”, they mined the more obscure corners of their character archives to find properties interesting enough to be worthy of their own title. Now I’ll admit that … Continue reading →

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Matt Wagner’s Grendel Archives

Posted on 28th July 2016 by Robert

Matt Wagner was one of a generation of writers and artists who essentially remade comics in the 1980s. This does not count R. Crumb and the others who opened comics up to new modes of expression (and content) in the … Continue reading →

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Paul Dini, Dustin Nguyen, and Derek Fridolfs’ Batman: Streets of Gotham: Hush Money

Posted on 20th July 2016 by Robert

Streets of Gotham: Hush Money is another installment in the Batman Reborn series (or should I call it a “universe”?), and another in which Tommy Elliott, the villain Hush and Bruce Wayne’s good friend and bitter enemy, plays a large … Continue reading →

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Paul Dini and Carlos D’Anda’s Batman: Arkham City

Posted on 20th July 2016 by Robert

Splashed across the bottom of the dust jacket to Arkham City is “The lead-in to the highly anticipated video game!” Let that be a warning. Batman and the Joker got into it in a big way a year ago, with … Continue reading →

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Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson’sTransmetropolitan: Back on the Street

Posted on 15th July 2016 by Robert M. Tilendis

Transmetropolitan is another of Warren Ellis’ spiky and superbly wrought stories that, in many important respects, turns comics on their head. Back on the Street incorporates the first three numbers in the series in the tale of Spider Jerusalem, journalist. Spider Jerusalem is … Continue reading →

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Paul Dini and Guillem March’s Gotham City Sirens: Union

Posted on 15th July 2016 by Robert

Gotham City Sirens is another installment of Batman Reborn and, like Batman and Robin, it seems to be marking time until something significant happens, somewhere. Catwoman is rescued from an encounter with Boneblaster, Gotham’s latest would-be crime star, by Poison … Continue reading →

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Andy Diggle and Jock’s Green Arrow: Year One

Posted on 14th July 2016 by Robert

To re-invent an ongoing character who has been in existence since 1941 is no small undertaking, although in the case of Green Arrow, a.k.a. Ollie Queen, there was a lot of history to draw on — this is not the … Continue reading →

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Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith, The Chronicles of Conan, Vol. 1: The Tower of the Elephant and Other Stories; The Barry Windsor-Smith Archive: Conan, Volume 1

Posted on 7th July 2016 by Robert

Once upon a time there was a young English illustrator who wanted to draw comics. He wanted to draw comics badly enough that he came to America with little more than the clothes on his back and a sheaf of … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 3rd of July: Reese’s Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups, SF from Lavie Tidhar and Warren Ellis, de Lint has a song for a us, a Charles Vess gallery in a book and other goodies as well!

Posted on 3rd July 2016 by Iain Nicholas Mackenzie

She is our moon. Our tidal pull. She is the rich deep beneath the sea, the buried treasure, the expression in the owl’s eye, the perfume in the wild rose. She is what the water says when it moves. ― … Continue reading →

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