Try the Sampler Platter

My latest trip to the library not only yielded me around $20 in overdue fines (damn the man!) but also a stack of about 20 tpb/graphic novels to consume. I’m going to forego lengthy blogs about each for a review snack pack of three books in particular.
#1
American Born Chinese written and illustrated by Gene Luen [...]

Nabbing The Goon

I picked up this comic book for Dan because it was published by Dark Horse (publisher of Hellboy and BPRD to name a few ). I also remembered reading a little blurb about it in Wizard a few years ago. The cover caught my eye, and it seemed amusing in a bizarre way, which is [...]

Warming up to Wall-E

I was not pleased to be pestered by my husband at 6:00pm on a Friday evening to go watch a Kid’s movie with my three nephews, and entire family in tow.
“But it’s Pixar!” he pleaded, not realizing my lack of caring.
I told him fine - if we could sneak into a double feature and I [...]

The Hulk’s Incredible OR The Incredible Hulk

I watched The Incredible Hulk last night - with the expectation that I never envisioned Edward Norton as Bruce Banner (but to be honest, I don’t do much envisioning of Bruce Banner period) and also understanding that Iron Man was good, but not my personal favorite comic book movie. Basically - the expectations were low-ish, [...]

Love and The Apocalypse

It’s a Saturday two-fer.

In the Small by writer/artist Michael Hague is gorgeously conceived with delicious color and picturesque panels. The concept and plot are amazing too - a sudden and bizarre “flash” changes the entire world population into pint-sized versions of themselves. This seemingly eradicates a good chunk of humanity - those who are trapped [...]

Old-iana Jones

Or rather - Harrison Ford is old. And therefore, it’s rather frightening to watch him leap about like a monkey, take punches to the face, and swing around on vines. As I watched him (or his stunt double) performing these heroic feats, in “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” I couldn’t help [...]

Whiteout: Comic Adventures in Antarctica

Just wanted to clear things up - this is not a blog about the ingenius correction fluid otherwise known as ”liquid paper“ created by a secretary Bette Nesmith Graham - mother of Monkees alumni Michael Nesmith.
Nope - this is about “Whiteout” the comic book written by Greg Rucka and artist Steve Leiber.

This series was originally suggested to [...]

Girls on Film

This one goes out to all the ladies.

I just read a New York Times article, on the advice from another comic obsessed woman blogger, about the lack of good roles for women in Hollywood movies and Hollywood comic movies. I immediately got on board with the idea presented in the article. It’s something that I [...]

FREE Comics! And Iron Man

Today is one of the happiest days o’ the year: Free Comic Book Day.

The only day of the year that you can wander into your local comic book store and pick up a free book. The idea is to get the kids hooked while receiving a free comic book. There are lots of choices available [...]