Comics
Review: Superman: Lois and Clark #7
Superman: Lois and Clark #7 brought readers the latest in writer Dan Jurgens’s action-packed love letter to the first couple of superhero comics. The story is picking up steam, and the series has taken on new significance since DC Comics announced that Jurgens will be...
Review: Superman: American Alien #6
Superman: American Alien #6, the penultimate issue of writer Max Landis's boldly original take on "a guy named Clark Kent from Kansas, who is an alien", came out last Wednesday. Each installment pairs Landis with a different graphic artist to tell a separate vignette from...
Review: Action Comics #51
Action Comics #51, the third chapter in Peter J. Tomasi’s multifaceted run-up to DC Comics’ impending Rebirth event, was released this week. Initially billed as the audience’s introduction to the Super League, the story arc spanning several series carries the actual title The Final Days...
Avenger’s Standoff: Uncanny Avengers #7
Events in Pleasant Hill heat up with the arrival of the Uncanny Avengers. ComiConverse Contributor, Seth Frederiksen, has this review. Synopsis: In the third part of Marvel’s Standoff Event, we find Quicksilver and Brother Voodoo, of the Uncanny Avengers, attending to some personal matters. The scene then...
Standoff – All New All Different Avengers #7
The All New, All Different Avengers throw their hats into the ring in the fourth installment of the Standoff Event. ComiConverse Contributor, Seth Frederiksen, has the official ComiConverse review. Synopsis: The issue begins with Sam Wilson and Jane Foster, the newest Captain America and Thor, respectively,...
Review: Joyride #1
Adventure returns to space this week in the new comic Joyride written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly. ComiConverse contributor Darryll Robson takes a look at the first issue. Escape from a dystopian society into a better life beyond the stars is the age old...
Review: Jackpot! #1
ComiConverse Contributor Darryll Robson reviews the first issue of Aftershock Comics' new crime story, Jackpot. The con is on in Ray Fawkes new title, Jackpot, from Aftershock Comics: a comedic, action packed crime story. Aftershock Comics is a new publisher with a collection of genre comics...
Review: The Infinity Entity
Comic book legend Jim Starlin returns to Marvel with a four issue mini series titled The Infinity Entity. ComiConverse contributor Mitch Nissen is here with a look at the complete mini series. Adam Warlock is changing. But changing into what, only Jim Starlin knows. Over...
Review: Batman/Superman #31
Batman/Superman #31, the second installment of writer Peter J. Tomasi's Super League story arc spanning multiple titles, was released this week. As DC Comics prepares for Rebirth, Tomasi is taking the terminally ill Man of Steel through his final days, and his latest adventure pairs...
Review: Superman: The Coming of the Supermen #3
Superman: The Coming of the Supermen #3 escaped from the fertile mind of iconic comic book creator Neal Adams this week. As both author and artist, Adams has undertaken to carry the Man of Steel back to his Bronze Age basics. ComiConverse’s Action Ace correspondent,...
Review: Superman #51 Marks the Start of Rebirth
Superman #51 was released this week, following a palate-cleansing Wednesday on which no new issues starring the Man of Steel hit the stands. DC Comics began bridging the gap between the end of the New 52 and the coming Rebirth with the opening installment of...
Review: Grizzly Shark
Image Comics is the new home for Grizzly Shark by Ryan Ottley. ComiConverse contributor, Darryll Robson, reviews the comic. Warning: this review contains spoilers. Sometimes a comic comes along that is difficult to review because it is so wildly eccentric. However, even the most seemingly...
Review: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #2
ComiConverse Contributor Darryll Robson reviews the continuing saga of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers as seen by Boom Studios! Creators. It is old school Ranger action all the way. The second issue of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers eases the reader into the story before...
Review: Power Lines Issue #1
Power Lines is the most recent comic book by the extraordinary author Jimmie Robinson, who is most famous for his Bomb Queen series. ComiConverse Contributor, Sammy Rendon has the full review. Synopsis: Power Lines is one of the few books out right now with social...
The Dark Knight Returns: A ComiConversation
This month's topic is The Dark Knight Returns. Mitch Nissen and Sam McCoy have been friends since the late nineties when they used to work in the cornfields together. Reading comics and watching movies were the foundation of their friendship that has lasted all these...
Review: Judge Dredd #4
ComiConverse Contributor, Darryll Robson, reviews the continuing adventures of Judge Dredd as visualised by writers Ulises Farinas and Erick Freitas for IDW Publishing. Judge Dredd is out of his depth, quite literally, in part 4 of IDWs Mega-City Zero storyline, and his newest little friends aren’t...
Review: Superman: Lois and Clark #6
Superman: Lois and Clark #6 was released this week, continuing writer Dan Jurgens's and penciller Lee Weeks's chronicle of the adventures of the pre-Flashpoint Clark Kent and Lois Lane as married parents hiding out in the background of the New 52 universe with their son,...
Review: Venus #4
ComiConverse Contributor, Darryll Robson, reviews the final issue in the Venus series from Boom Studios!, Venus #4, a comic that puts character development and personal conflict above all else. Stranded on the surface of Venus with no way of escape. The Earth nothing more than smoldering debris in...
Review: Superman: American Alien #5
Superman: American Alien #5 capped off a busy week for the Man of Steel. Joined by various graphic artists for a seven-issue limited series billed as the antithesis of Grant Morrison’s All-Star Superman, writer Max Landis told the story of “a guy named Clark Kent from...
The Incredible Hulk: The Peter David Years – A ComiConversation
ComiConverse Contributors Mitch Nissen and Sam McCoy have been friends since the late 90’s, when they used to work in the cornfields of the midwest together. Reading comics and watching movies are the foundation of their friendship which has lasted, despite the fact they have not lived...
Review: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. “Standoff”
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. become a part of the Pleasant Hill debacle with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Standoff. ComiConverse Contributor Seth Frederiksen is here to assess. Synopsis: Mockingbird and Agent Leo Fitz are falling from a plane, with Agent Fitz’s parachute failing to deploy properly. Mockingbird swiftly arrives...
Review: Superman: The Coming of the Supermen #2
Superman: The Coming of the Supermen #2 burst forth from the imaginative mind of writer and artist Neal Adams this week, and the second installment of the six-issue series provided another King-sized slice of Bronze Age brilliance. ComiConverse's Man of Steel reporter, T. Kyle King,...