The final issue of Pretty Deadly: The Rat is out this week. With that in mind, I want to look at the first two installments of the series, The Shrike and The Bear. The comic […]
The 2010s are no more, but we can look back fondly at some of the outstanding comics from the decade. This list is restricted to one comic per year, so some comics that I love, […]
With the 2019 holiday season in full swing, let’s take a look at who made the naughty and nice list. There are plenty of good hearted heroes and dastardly villains, but these ones stuck with […]
Last week The Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child came out and became another challenged comic book. Rafael Grandpa’s artwork, which paints a colorful yet haunting image of Gotham, has lead to controversy overseas. His […]
Happy Halloween! To celebrate my favorite holiday, here are some tricks and treats from several sub-genres of horror. Green River Killer, for fans of slasher flicks and true crime Slasher films are my favorite horror movies. […]
In the near future, none of us will have only one job. We’ll have one big job and a couple small jobs, or eighteen small jobs that amount to almost one big one. The “gig […]
Tabletop gaming is having its greatest renaissance since the Satanic Panic of the 80’s and Tom Hanks made that movie that said Dungeons & Dragons was going to make your kids kill people in the […]
Picture for me your four favorite comedians. Whoever they may be, put them in a room. And imagine they’re playing an action/fantasy RPG like Dungeons & Dragons. Wouldn’t you want to be there for the […]
Brace for impact! Secure the doors and ready your pull lists! There is another stunning #1 coming your way from Image Comics. Bless my soul, that company is on a roll with a line-up of […]
The following originally ran in the Weekly Planet 10/10/18. It’s that classic comic success story. A team of creators release a passion project #1. There’s no superheroes in it. It catches fire. Word of mouth […]
The following originally ran in the Weekly Planet 9/26/18. It’s the near future. A mutation causes menstruating women to transform into murderous cat people. Easily provoked. Extremely deadly. It’s an Anchorman joke given life. For […]
The following originally ran in the Weekly Planet 9/12/18. When people come into Forbidden Planet looking for new comics, I always recommend they follow creators over companies. If you fell in love with a story […]
The following originally ran in the Weekly Planet 6/27/18. You can read the issue in question in Sex Criminals Volume 5. Sex is taboo. Birds do it. Bees do it. You can’t walk down 4th […]
The following originally ran in the Weekly Planet 6/13/18. Imagine if you will a dystopian future where your personal information is no longer secure online and everything about you is being sold off to the […]
Sometimes we want a little escape in our lives. The world we live in is one we become too intimate with and it’s nice to read about a place far away. Maybe a world like […]
Every week there’s a new slew of graphic novels that come onto the scene. And there’s an argument to be made that the lifeblood of the comic book industry is still single issues. And that’s […]
Gideon Falls reunites one of the best creative teams of the last several years in writer Jeff Lemire and artist Andrea Sorrentino. This is the first foray for Lemire into the realm of horror and […]
Dave Lizewski became the vigilante known as Kick-Ass. The bullied bumbling high schooler became the hero he always dreamed of being…sort of. I mean, for a little while until something would go really wrong and […]
Rocket Girl Vol. 2 launches onto shelves this week. Will the timey-wimey, wibbly-wobbly saga of DaYoung Johansson have a happy ending? Will the future be saved? Which future? And what qualifies as saved? The answers […]
‘Tis the season for a crazy drunken ex-cop turned hit-man to track down a monstrous child killer in a Santa suit. And a tiny blue horse called Happy. It’s just another twisted hilarious tale from […]
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