Sheltered is a book with a solid concept as its foundation. What Brisson, Christmas and Chankhamma have done is created a scenario that has tension, action, characterisation and thematic strands. Sheltered is quite simply a compelling read. Brisson uses this second issue to play up the grief and confusion of the main characters, with the exception of Lucas. As the books antagonist Lucas comes across as a calm and charismatic psychopath, which makes him quite the terrifying adversary for our hero Victoria.
Welcome to the Six Shooter! This is a weekly column that will review six specific comics. Big new releases, small interesting titles and random curiosities. All will be looked at. This week DC Comics begins its restoration of its Vertigo Imprint, as two new comics hit the shelves. Are they any good? Find out below! (Also other comics were released this week)
This new Crow series has the benefit of having the Crow’s creator James O’Barr in the driving seat. This is certainly a different tale than the one fans will be familiar with, but that doesn’t mean it is inferior. In fact this miniseries is utterly gripping. O’Barr once again looks at violence, grief and the search for justice. This time around the story follows Detective Salk as he tries to find who is responsible for the brutal murder of a young girl called Carrie.
As the new shepherd of the X-Universe Bendis has created something interesting in the pages of All-New X-Men and Uncanny X-Men. However more often than not Uncanny seems to be behind its sister title when it comes to quality. Bendis delivers another one of his famous talky scripts in this issue. It is concerned with setting up the next arc and introducing the reader to a new team member. Now this isn’t a bad thing, but the whole issue falls under the weight of its own dialogue. The constant chatter becomes so much that even the art gets swallowed up by it.
It is a given that nearly everyone is familiar with the 60s Batman TV show. It was high camp and trippy fun that made household names of Batman and Robin. Adam West’s Batman is everything that is odd and silly about the character. What Jeff Parker and Jonathan Case have done is recreate the TV show and embrace the ridiculousness of it all. As a result we have a comic that captures the TV show’s camp feel and that is a good thing.
The author of World War Z adds another zombie tale to his bibliography. But this has a twist as Brooks decides to tackle another highly popular supernatural creature, the vampire. From the off Brooks wasted no time in introducing everything you need to know about his new concept. Vampires are arrogant and have underestimated the threat zombies present. Brooks criticises previous popular incarnations of vampires, but crucially he doesn’t build a unique angle for his own interpretation.
Another good mix of comics this week. Life lessons are learnt, villains beaten and herculean feats are achieved (and that’s just in My Little Pony). So how did they do? Welcome to the Six Shooter! The weekly column that reviews six specific comics. Big new releases, small interesting titles and random curiosities. All will be looked at.
Welcome to the Six Shooter! This is a weekly column that will review six specific comics. Big new releases, small interesting titles and random curiosities. All will be looked at. The way it works is that there will be a brief review of the comics followed by our rating system. This week i’ll be looking at Age of Ultron #9, Mice Templar IV: Legend #3, Virga: Sun Of Suns #1, Miss Fury #3, Shadowman #7 and Astro City #1.
Welcome to the very first Six Shooter! This is a weekly column that will review six specific comics. Big new releases, small interesting titles and random curiosities. All will be looked at. The way it works is that there will be a brief review of the comics followed by our rating system. As it’s the first ever Six Shooter it would seem prudent to focus this edition on First issues. Thankfully the gods of comics where smiling down on us and we actually have six new number ones (we cheated as one of them is a one-shot) to review.