Comics
Comic Review: Angel Season 11 #3
The third issue of Angel is a little less action-packed, though there are still some big, exciting moments. Angel, Fred and Illyria are still stuck in the past while Illyria tries to stop herself from...
Comic Review: Dark Horse/DC: Justice League Volume 2
As a huge fan of crossovers, especially between properties you would not necessarily expect to cross over, I loved this book. It’s a collection of several miniseries from the 1990s that crossed over m...
Comic Review: Angel, Season 11 #2
The first issue of Angel ended with Angel, Fred, Illyria and the readers being sent on a journey into the titular character’s past. It was a solid setup for a new kind of arc that the series had never...
Comic Review: Buffy Season 11 #3
Issue 3 of Season 11 is all about fallout, from both the aftermath of the attack and the aftermath of the decisions made in its wake. Things that were decided on by the US government in the previous i...
Comic Review: Puppet Master #20
Puppet Master has not only made it to its 20th issue, its completely gone off the rails—in the best way possible, of course. This series has done some extremely inventive things with the franchise’s u...
We Already Have the Perfect Template for a Halloween Reboot (And it’s a Comic)
Rebooting a franchise can be a tricky thing these days. The new approach seems to be to tell a new story that stands completely on its own but doesn’t necessarily negate what came before. The 2009 reb...
Why Swamp Thing Worked So Well in Comics (But Not on Film)
If you’re not a comic book fan, you’re at least probably familiar with the name Swamp Thing. Maybe you remember it from the campy-but-fun Wes Craven movie. With that film, its sequel and subsequent TV...
Comic Review: Puppet Master #19
Puppet Master continues to provide a near-impossible balance of tying together even the most far afield holes in continuity, keeping incredibly faithful to everything that has come before, while also ...
Comic Review: Aliens: Life and Death #1
Aliens: Life and Death #1 continues the Alien saga releases by Dark Horse Comics. The book starts where the previous comics left off, following the surviving humans of LV-223 who have just faced off a...
