Daredevil Season Two
Daredevil is besought on all sides by faceless foes, competent in combat but heartless. Such is true not only of generic gaiden, but of the series’ second season itself.
Obi-Wan & Anakin #3
Sidious is more insidious a devil than Faust. Anakin is not seduced so much by the Dark Side as by the Light.
Superman: American Alien #5
“I teach you the Superman! Mankind is something to be overcome…The Superman is the meaning of the earth.”
Tom Clancy’s The Division
Much like midtown Manhattan in the game’s fiction, The Division is a vibrant and robust play space contaminated throughout by a singular disease.
We’re Living in the Postmodern Age of Comics
The Current Battle for Personal Truth, Social Justice, and a New American Way
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #1
Giant mecha battling killer kaiju could conceivably occur. Standing up Amy Jo Johnson circa 1993? Far less likely.
The Goddamned #3
The Goddamned is a New Testament take on an Old Testament tale, focused on subverting the text to elicit in the reader a deeper contemplation of the question as to who actually constitute the sheep and the goats.
Gods of Egypt
Gods of Egypt is a reverent translation of disparate myths into singular overarching epic by way of Marvel’s Thor, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and Campbell’s monomyth.
Superman: The Coming of the Supermen #1
No comic book reader with even a cursory knowledge of the history of the medium could deny the importance of Neal Adams contributions in the past. Alongside his most notable co-creator, Dennis O’Neil, Adams was instrumental in reestablishing a more serious tone for Batman, a necessary tonic after the high camp of the Adam West…
Star Wars #16
The brief interaction between Solo’s gender-swapped doppelgänger and his former partner-in-crime is a microcosm of everything good and bad, genius and cringe-worthy, since Marvel reclaimed the Star Wars license.
The Hub City Review 