Category: Comics
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Comic Books Out 7, 14, 21 October 2015
Butter and Blood (Steven Weissman) [Retrofit] A collection of short stories, mini comics, zine entries, designs, sketches, etc. put together by an individual with impeccable taste and style. The art here ranges (as you’d imagine) from loose sketchbook pages to photoshop-clean but keeps a scratchy, human quality that also bleeds into the pathos of some…
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Comic Books Out 2 October
Bizarro #4 I was not 100% in love with this book at first, to be perfectly honest. I love that each issue has a guest artist for one illustration (this issue has a Darwyn Cooke-drawn Zatanna poster!) But the story, while fun and light-hearted, and the art, though loose and cartoony, have both been a bit on…
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Comic Books Out 23 September
Wolf #3 I am enjoying this book a lot. It’s a true crime/seedy criminal underworld kind of book, set in modern Los Angeles. Pretty standard except there are vampires and Chthonic dudes and maybe even the antichrist. It’s slowly unraveling in a way that just keeps sucking me in and I’m stoked to see what’s going to…
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Comic Books Out 16 September 2015
A bit late. Southern Cross #5 Southern Cross is an incredibly-drawn psychedelic murder-mystery in space. The basic story is that of a woman aboard a vessel trying to investigate the mysterious death/disappearance of her estranged sister. There’s plenty of drama and intrigue of the regular human and of the supernatural/science fiction type, and it’s all combined…
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Comic Books out 9 September 2015
I only picked up three books this week. Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl #2 I get frustrated with books that take work to get into. Books with a lot of history or that require you to have read lots of other stuff beforehand are something I complain about on Four Color Commentary with relative frequency. But if…
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Comic Books Out 2 September 2015
Oops, I did it again: I wrote about the comics I bought this week.
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Comic Books Out 26 August 2015
I bought four books this week. Prez #3 Prez is the best comic book that DC is putting out right now, and, from what I understand, it’s not selling well. I guess people are confused, possibly because it stars a girl and uses bright, pretty colors, and no one punches anyone. No punching. In a…
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Media, September 2014
Inspired by posts like this from guys like Sean Witzke, here’s the media I consumed in September: FILM Tangled (2010) The Lone Ranger* (2013) Equilibrium* (2002) Monsters University (2013) Toy Story shorts (Hawaiian Vacation, Small Fry, Partysaurus Rex and Toy Story of Terror) (2011-2013) Gnomeo & Juliet (2011) Enchanted (2007) Toy Story 2 (1999) Swiss Family…
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Prestige Format Review: Bandette 1-3
Have you read Monkeybrain Comics’ Bandette yet? There are three issues on Comixology for 99¢ apiece. That’s $2.97 for a lot of good comics! Charming and adventurous like a hip Tintin, Bandette is a coquettish rogue who splits her time between stealing, helping put-upon Inspector BG Belgique capture criminals, and building her network of street…
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Prestige Format Review: Multiple Warheads
Multiple Warheads is a seriously bizarre comic by writer-artist Brandon Graham. Known for his epic manga about cat-masters, King City, and his critically-lauded reinvention of the much-derided Rob Liefield science-fiction book Prophet, Graham has a history of occasionally letting his id loose on comics projects. Usually he lets it loose in short stories for dirty…