As Fathom moves into volume two, the series takes a turn by covering a subject both topical when it was published and one that splits the focus away from its main attraction. […]
Tragedy and Fury – Miss Fury Volume 1: Anger is An Energy
The book starts out with our anti-heroine falling into a machine and thrust forward into 2013 from 1943. Jumping forward seventy years out of your time and comfort zone must be a […]
Two Different Tonics – Strange Killings: Strong Medicine and Necromancer
The next two chapters in the ongoing tribulations of Ellis and Wolfer’s combat magician, William Gravel are good, with one far better than the other. Strong Medicine has our hero looking into […]
Apocalyptic Actions Do Not An Apocalypse Make – Sheltered Volume 1
Sheltered is one of those rare comics where going into the book, there was no prior knowledge of it, the creators or the concept. Comprising five issues, it was a blind buy […]
Gravel, Teacher – Strange Killings: The Body Orchard
This series of Warren Ellis’s combat magician sees our hero in the wrong spot at the wrong time. Again. Seems Gravel just cannot keep out of trouble no matter where he goes. […]
He Knows What He’s Doing – Witch Doctor: Under the Knife
The best thing about watching Hugh Laurie as House is the sarcastic wit and the know-it-all attitude he has. He is so full of himself, thinking he is always right yet unlike […]
A Titanic Team-Up! – Tarzan/John Carter: Warlords of Mars
In 1996, Dark Horse crossed over two of the most famous licensed properties it had into a four issue miniseries – that of Tarzan and John Carter, the Warlord of Mars. It […]
More Than One Kind of Haunting – Ghosted Volume One: Haunted Heist
Who does not love a good ghost story? Really, who? This book – Ghosted – is one of the best books about said phenomenon in years. Another does not even come to […]
Cthulhu Rising – Neonomicon
At times it almost feels as if there are two Alan Moore’s. There is the Alan Moore that writes for himself, books such as Watchmen, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and V for […]
It’s Not All About the… – Sex Book One: The Summer of Hard
Sex is probably one of the smartest books on the stands. The best thing about this book is that it treats the reader like an adult – and it is a book […]
The Telltale Mind 