Posted by Marylou on March 3, 2010 · 2 Comments
Girl Comics is a three issue series from Marvel, written, edited, and penciled by some of the top women in the industry. Issue one consisted of six short stories, an introduction, a pin up of She Hulk, two spotlights on women who helped shape Marvel in the early days, and bios on all the creators [...]
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Posted by Marylou on February 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The Michael Turner cover alone is enough to get you excited about this issue, the fact that the original Supergirl Helen Slater co-wrote the origin story only adds to that excitement. But what really made the issue for me is Sterling Gates. Supergirl has become my favorite comic to read out of the Superman series [...]
Posted by Marylou on January 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Hell’s Blood follows Hector, who in one terrible night looses both his grandmother, and his own life. If that were not enough he also finds himself fighting creators from hell, including a fire haired werewolf bent on bringing Satan back to earth. Two mysterious beings show up to help guide Hector as he finds himself [...]
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Posted by Marylou on January 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Com.x’s 45 is a 132 page graphic novel that follows journalist and soon to be father, James Stanley. When he and his wife decide to forego a test that would determine whether or not his unborn child has the Super-S gene (a gene that gives a person superhero abilities), James embarks on a mission to [...]
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Posted by Marylou on November 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment
“Risers” is a 130 page graphic novel that puts an interesting twist on the zombie genre. Instead of fearing zombies you actually find yourself empathizing with them.
“Risers” are the living dead, but unlike the unarticulated monsters we are used to seeing they can communicate with the living. Most Risers live civilly in a compound, of [...]
Posted by Marylou on November 4, 2009 · 1 Comment
Indego Blue takes place in a future, where a totalitarian government’s experiments with splicing human and animal DNA together has gone wrong. Most of their subjects did not survive, those that did where thrown back into society as second class citizens. Now the government is tracking them down. Their one success, Indego Blue has turned [...]
Posted by Marylou on September 16, 2009 · 2 Comments
The guys at Saint James have published the first story in the Ex Occultus series, the one shot: Badge of Langavat.
It’s 1864 and village children have gone missing. Occult hunter Francis Wakefield (the series lead) and Fergus Duff are determined to rescue them from the cursed Langavat clan. The Langavats believe that sacrificing the children [...]
