Recently I finished reading the Madman Gargantua, a pleasantly hefty volume collecting the adventures of Mike Allred’s ginchiest creation. There will be a full review later, but suffice it to say it’s about a re-animated hitman named Frank Einstein and his mad scientist pals and it’s overflowing with aliens, robots, time travel, and other awesome [...]
Never bring a knife to a bone breaking fight. Never go up against a Frenchman when getting your eyeball ripped out is on the line. Bahlactus knows that. This from Global Frequency Vol. II: Detonation Radio written by Warren Ellis, drawn by Tomm Coker.
I’ve been waiting for this one for a while. I love The Question, and I have ever since I learned that he was the basis for the character of Rorschach in Watchmen. I always thought it was kind of weird that DC had never collected any of their Question comics from the mid to late [...]
Somewhere deep inside me lurks the soul of a full on Comic Book Guy. I like comic books, and I’m not ashamed to admit it. I’ve been reading them for most of my life, and I’ve accumulated a fair amount of comics knowledge, though I try to keep from foisting it upon the uninterested. I [...]
Have you ever found one of those little comics laying around somewhere? You know, the ones with the hilariously over-the-top fundamentalist warnings against the evil of rock music, abortion, and science? Well, chances are it came from Jack Chick. I remember I found multiple copies of the witchcraft one slipped in between the shelves of [...]