Tag Archives: Graphic Novels

Review of The Walking Dead Vol. 31 by Robert Kirkman

Posted on March 19, 2019 by H.P.

A long-term comics story requires a certain ebb and flow.  Not every volume of The Walking Dead can have massive set pieces.  Nor would we want it to.  And the comics do a much better job than the show at … Continue reading →

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Review of The Walking Dead Vol. 30 by Robert Kirkman

Posted on September 12, 2018 by H.P.

Volume 30 of The Walking Dead picks up where Volume 29 left off.  An expedition from Alexandria et al. discovers a new community—the largest one The Walking Dead has ever seen.  It looks to be fascinating, allows for one big reunion(!), … Continue reading →

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Rat Queens vol. 5 is a disjointed, hot mess

Posted on August 15, 2018 by H.P.

*Sigh*  This graphic novel is a hot mess. The first issue focuses on Orc Dave.  It is interesting and good worldbuilding, but it is also repetitive and tangential.  Why include a flashback at what will be the beginning of a … Continue reading →

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Review of The Walking Dead Vol. 29: Lines We Cross by Robert Kirkman

Posted on March 27, 2018 by H.P.

I hope you’ll excuse me if I use my review of Vol. 29 of The Walking Dead comic to draw a contrast with the TV show.  If you’re smart, you have long since abandoned the show.  I never said I … Continue reading →

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Rat Queens is always at its best when it’s having fun

Posted on October 18, 2017 by H.P.

The strengths of Rat Queens is the interpersonal dynamics among the group, the dungeon crawls/monster-killing quests, and poking fun at both modern life and D&D murder hobo propensities.  Volume 4 has a lot of that, and it is all enormously … Continue reading →

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Review of The Walking Dead, Vol. 28: A Certain Doom by Robert Kirkman

Posted on October 4, 2017 by H.P.

I am on record with my complaints about Volume 27: The Whisperer War.  I will leave those complaints to that volume.  The setup is screwy, but what we get here—the execution?  Oh man!  Our fearless heroes survived the immediate threat … Continue reading →

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Review of Moonshine vol. 1 by Brian Azzarello

Posted on May 31, 2017 by H.P.

Moonshine is a new comic about a Prohibition-era gangster sent deep into the dark hills of Virginia to recruit a hillbilly moonshiner to work for the organization. If the copy and the silhouette on the back cover don’t clue you … Continue reading →

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Throwback SF Thursday: The Autumnlands Vol. 2 by Kurt Busiek

Posted on March 23, 2017 by H.P.

Why should you be reading The Autumnlands?  For one, the art is gorgeous.  I’ve got copies of the new Darth Vader comics, Ms. Marvel, Rat Queens, Saga, The Walking Dead sitting on my bookshelf.  Only Saga has artwork that even … Continue reading →

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Review of The Walking Dead, Vol. 27: The Whisperer War by Robert Kirkman

Posted on March 8, 2017 by H.P.

Life After the Zombie Apocalypse is Nasty, Brutish, and Short. You…probably know what is going on in Vol. 27.  I would warn about spoilers, but what is there to spoil that hasn’t already been spoiled by the title and the … Continue reading →

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Review of Ms. Marvel vol. 6: Civil War II by G. Willow Wilson

Posted on January 10, 2017 by H.P.

Ms. Marvel is great!  As a character, and as a comic as a whole.  This volume is not.  It has issues, several issues.  The story is as disjointed as we have come to expect the art to be (my kingdom … Continue reading →

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