Pages Tagged “Comics”
Reviews
- Birding Is My Favorite Video Game
★★★★★
Rosemary Mosco
A fun collection of cartoons about nature (not just birds!) collected from Bird and Moon. Mostly funny, a few serious. - Chivalry
Beautifully drawn and illustrated, a charming tale of Arthurian legend brought into modern times. - The Comic Bug ★★★★★ Open, inviting, and kid-friendly, with friendly staff and a wide selection. Frequent artist/writer signings.
- Comics Toons N’ Toys ★★★★★ The best comic store I’ve been to in Orange County. The staff is friendly and helpful, and the selection is incredible.
- Dark Knights: Metal
★★★☆☆
Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, and Jonathan Glapion
The art is great, and the scope is ambitious, but the story follows the same beats as Final Crisis. - Final Crisis (Audio and Graphic Novel)
- Final Crisis: Revisiting the Tie-Ins Superman Beyond is essential. Submit and Reqiuem show the street-level perspective. Rogues Revenge is not a good as I remember.
- Flash: Stop Motion (Audio)
The concepts are intriguing, the characters are handled well, and the full cast and sound effects make up for the lack of visuals in superhero novels. - Good Time Travel Comics ★★★★★ Some DC stories I can recommend include DC One Million, JLA: Rock of Ages, Time Masters, and Chronos.
- iZombie (graphic novels)
A horror/comedy that ranges from Scooby Doo to Lovecraft by way of Moorcock, featuring thinking zombies, vampires who run paintball, ghosts, secret societies, and a were-terrier. Off the wall concepts and a clean, sharp art style that contrasts with the monsters and gore. The TV series was loosely based on these comics. - New Spring (Comic Book) #1
- New Spring (Comics): The Long Publishing Saga It’s taken a long time (and three publishers) to complete this adaptation of the Wheel of Time prequel, even though it only covered eight standard-sized comic books
- Pebble and Wren
★★★★★
Chris Hallbeck
Hilarious and heartwarming tale of a girl and the monster who lives under her bed. - Stan Lee’s Starborn
An unpublished writer discovers that the science fiction saga he’s been building since childhood is actually very, very real. And it wants him dead. - Tales From The Bully Pulpit
A sci-fi comedy graphic novel featuring a time-traveling Teddy Roosevelt and the ghost of Thomas Edison, battling a descendant of Adolf Hitler. On Mars. Wearing mecha armor. - Time Breakers
This comic book from the 1990s flips the familiar time-cop trope on its head: Instead of protecting time from paradoxes, the protagonists are trying to create more paradoxes, convinced that the very existence of life depends on it. - Tinyview Comics ★★★★☆ Good comics formatted for small screens.
- A Wizard of Earthsea (Graphic Novel)
Fordham’s watercolor-style art is absolutely gorgeous. The adaptation plays to the medium’s strengths, allowing the visuals to tell the story when possible, keeping Le Guin’s prose when needed. Wide seascapes, rocky coasts, forested landscapes, people (not whitewashed!) and dragons…
Tech Tips
- Moving With a Comic Collection Standard long or short boxes are fine. Just make sure you load them in a way that they won’t tip over.
Les Misérables
- Wolverine vs. Jor-El Les Misérables takes on an entirely new light when viewed as their epic struggle.
- Classics Illustrated: Les Misérables Comic Book (Review) They manage to fit a lot of the story into a 45-page comic focusing on Jean Valjean, but some of the editorial choices are baffling.
- Les Misérables: Classics Illustrated’s Original Comic Book (Review) Classics Illustrated produced two comic book versions of Les Mis. The 1943 version is harder to find, and treats it as an adventure story.
- Manga Classics: Les Misérables (Review) The Manga Classics adaptation of Les Misérables turns out to be a surprisingly faithful adaptation of the novel. Very little is altered except for streamlining, and a lot more is included than I was expecting.
- The Brick…and the Cinder Block I finally picked up a print copy of Donougher's translation, and it's even bigger than the brick-sized book I first read. Plus, I discovered the Takahiro Arai manga version is being translated into English!
- Comics Lost and Found A number of Classics Illustrated digital comics used to be on ComiXology before it was absorbed into the Kindle store. But that doesn't seem to be why they disappeared.
- Manga, Manga, Duck Omnibus 2 of Takahiro Arai's Les Misérables adaptation is already out, and 3 and 4 have release dates...and then there's the Uncle Scrooge version‽
Blog Posts
- It’s a Dream World
I recently found myself in Culver City and spotted a familiar-looking wall. Not because I’d been there often, but because I remember seeing it from the passenger seat of a co-worker’s car over a decade ago as we drove past on the way to…lunch? A bakery? I can’t quite remember. But I do remember Spider-Man […]
- Limited edition soda cans. OK, fine….HOW?
I guess collecting is sort of the point with a lot of media tie-in packaging (well, that and cross-promotion, of course), but I really have to wonder how people typically collect food packages. I mean, do you keep the can unopened and hope it doesn’t leak? Do you drink it even though the can won’t […]
- Safety Record
I want to know who broke that streak.