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We’ve got you covered when it comes to comic book reviews! We destroy the badly written comics and criticize comics with poor art. We go in depth with our reviews, dissecting the art, the writing, and the people behind the comic books. Our main focus is on more independent comics, rather than the big name Marvel and DC imprints. Hint: Image Comics is one of our favorites.
Comic books deserve just as much respect as any 300 page novel. You’re talking about making visual art and written word work together to tell an effective story. It’s not just painting/illustration and it’s not just writing. It’s both of them together, wielded as effectively as possible.
Respect the work it takes to create a comic book. It isn’t just drawing pictures to match the words. Unless you like a terribly executed comic book.
There’s more to comics than just whether you liked the story or not. There’s a whole team that produces the art, the colors, the lettering, and the writing then they have to work out how it all fits together.
If you’d like to learn some more in-depth questions you can ask when reading a comic book (and questions that we refer to when we read) then check out our resource guide on the techniques of comic review.
Disclosure: This post contains an affiliate link which provides a small amount of compensation to help us keep the website running if you buy through the link, at no extra cost to you. I have always enjoyed the Elseworlds imprint stories that publish well known heroes in one-off non-canon tales. These what-if stories let the […]
Disclosure: This post contains an affiliate link which provides a small amount of compensation to help us keep the website running if you buy through the link, at no extra cost to you. An interesting premise, We Stand on Guard features a ragtag band of brothers (and sisters) fighting for freedom against an unusual foe: […]
Times (and climates) are-a-changin’ with global warming and more extreme weather being thrown in to the Earth’s mix. XKCD, a beloved web comic strip for the scientific/nerdy, has even done a comic strip on the subject that was much loved (if a bit misleading). There’s been plenty of exploration in a post apocalyptic setting–right now […]
Reborn is a new 6 part series from industry legends Greg Capullo and Mark Millar. To say that this is a powerhouse creative team up would be an understatement. Expectations were predictably high for the sci-fi fantasy epic, and the duo delivered on many levels. Through six issues, we were treated to a simple and […]
“But I can see you- Your brown skin shinin’ in the sun. You got your hair combed back and your sunglasses on, baby. And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong, after the boys of summer have gone. ” -Don Henley, Boys of the Summer Flashback: circa Summer 2004 — the beginning […]
As I sit here writing this, I think to myself “You know, this post is as much for myself as it is for the readers,” and it’s true. It’s impossible to read a comic and address every interesting aspect of it every time. That’s why I came up with these questions for reviewing comics to […]
Hey there. Yeah you, I’m talking to you. Are you wondering what we’re up to here? Who are these guys and why are they out to destroy the comics? Have you ever read the latest release of a Marvel or DC comic, maybe the latest issue of Robin–or maybe this amazing masterpiece: Then you think to […]