Sam Rhodes (101)
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Richelle Mead’s Storm Born Issue #4 is really ratcheting things up. You can tell that by the cover alone. A tornado swirls around our raging and tearful protagonist, Eugenie Markham, as her mother lies bloodied in her arms.
Issue #4 picks up with Markham, also known as Odile, a freelance shaman, and her ragtag crew attempting to rescue a human from her Otherworldly captors. I don’t want to spoil anything, but I’ll say that she learns a lot about herself in this issue and about the people around her.
Right off the bat, I was a little confused about this comic. The title font is, forgive me, horrible. I can barely read the title at all, and if I didn’t know what it was called before I actually saw it, I might still be wondering! Not really, but close. It also doesn’t really fit the tone of the comic, but maybe I’m missing something. Okay, so there’s that, but, then, there’s the cover art. There’s a ghostly figure made of moaning faces hovering ominously over the earth. Alright. You won me back. So, here I am opening to page one, and already I’m torn about this comic.
The hits just keep on coming with the latest issue of Pariah from creator/writer Aron Warner, writer Phil Gelatt, and artist Brett Weldele. We learn the history of the socially deficient Franklin Hyde and why he needs all the “Vitros” to be gathered together. We learn why he’s so darn odd and what his parents are like. We learn what he wants and what he’s willing to do to get it. We learn all this, but, by the conclusion of the issue, we haven’t learned all we really want to know, which is: when can I get Issue #5?!
The DC reboot is upon us, comic book sniffers! Welcome to the new DC universe! In an effort to help bring new readers into the world of comics, the Fanboy Comics staff has decided to review at least five new #1 issues each week of September, DC’s reboot launch month.
Maybe it’s just a matter of personal taste, but The Flash #1, written by Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato, leaves me feeling underwhelmed. The story is wholesome and fun, with humor and a healthy dose of blurry, orange action sequences. The plot here is intriguing, if a little predictable, and the art is really good, so why am I not singing “Zip a dee do dah?” (Get it? Zip?)
The DC reboot is upon us, comic book sniffers! Welcome to the new DC universe! In an effort to help bring new readers into the world of comics, the Fanboy Comics staff has decided to review at least five new #1 issues each week of September, DC’s reboot launch month.
By Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti (Back to Brooklyn with Garth Ennis), this book is roughly twice as long as any other DC #1 I’ve read. It also has a good amount of fresh material, with some pretty obvious references to the current DCU.
Do you like a good haunted hayride or haunted house? Do you love scary movies? Is Alice Cooper your own personal Jesus? If at least two of these three things are true, then you’ll probably have an amazing time at Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights, which opened for 2011 this past weekend. For years now, every autumn Universal has turned its theme park into one big haunted house adventure, within which you will find six giant haunted mazes, a terror tram, an entire city block overrun with zombies, deranged clowns roaming around wielding everything from little, creepy noise makers to roaring chainsaws, and what seems to be a yearly tradition: a variety show called Bill and Ted’s Excellent Halloween Adventure. It’s a shocking, scary, and unbelievably fun, full-immersion Halloween experience!
The DC reboot is upon us, comic book sniffers! Welcome to the new DC universe! In an effort to help bring new readers into the world of comics, the Fanboy Comics staff has decided to review at least five new #1 issues each week of September, DC’s reboot launch month.
Wonder Woman. Yes, I have a hopeless, helpless crush on this fictional character. I also, after reading 100 Bullets, have a man crush on Brian Azzarello. So, put those two together and I’m completely at maximum crushable capacity. What could go wrong?! (He says as he picks up Wonder Woman Issue #1 by Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang...)
I have two words to say about Batman #1. But, before I tell you what those two words are, I’m going to throw a lot more words your way to explain why those two words apply (or, you could just skip to the last sentence of this review... slacker).
Well, I finally got my hands on the 3rd issue of Richelle Mead and Grant Alter’s Storm Born series, and I just devoured it. In this installment we follow freelance shaman Eugenie Markham, known also as Odile, into the dangerous Otherworld, as she attempts to find and rescue kidnapped Jasmine Delaney from the fairy-like beings called the Gentry. To do this, Eugenie has to cross into the Otherworld with her own physical body, rather than doing it psychically. This presents an extra danger for Markham, so she enlists the help of her fiends/enslaved and cursed souls who are forced to do what she says. Volusian, a demon-looking soul who is “about as damned as a soul could be,” has a love-hate relationship with Eugenie, except without the love part. He is enslaved to her and bound to protect her, but he makes no secret of his disdain. We meet another soul, less a slave and more an indentured servant, named Nandi. Nandi is a tormented soul cursed to roam the earth in endless suffering, but has agreed to serve Markham for three years in return for peace. Finn is the final member of the entourage who is a fun, pixie-looking being with a big mouth, who mainly just hangs around because he thinks it’s fun. And, together they head off into the Otherworld to find this missing girl.
The DC reboot is upon us, comic book sniffers! Welcome to the new DC universe! In an effort to help bring new readers into the world of comics, the Fanboy Comics staff has decided to review at least five new #1 issues each week of September, DC’s reboot launch month.
I first heard about this comic about a year ago at Comic-Con when I picked up a DC sampler. Demon Knights takes place in the dark ages, 400 years after the fall of Camelot. It is the story of a demon, Etrigan, captured by Merlin and imprisoned in a mortal body belonging to Jason of Norwich. The two have a Jekyll-and-Hyde relationship, except, as far as I can tell, Jason controls the switches and usually calls for Etrigan before battles and things. When he does call on the demon, his whole form changes to that of a giant, monstrous, yellow-skinned, red-eyed beast. Despite his appearance, Etrigan is less a villain and more a roguish, anti-hero who cannot deny his nature. It’s understandable; he is a demon.