Comics
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: 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...
We ComiConverse With Sean Lewis
Saints author and playwright Sean Lewis is fast becoming a fan favourite at Image Comics. Our Gabe Golden recently sat down with Mr. Lewis to talk about the origins of Saints, as well as his writing and comics craft. What would it be like if you...
Women In Comics: Female Characters We Can Relate To
Our Christina Clawson is charting progress in area of building modern and relatable female characters. Here, she takes a look at three of the most intriguing female characters in all of comics. Female comic book characters have evolved greatly from the first heroines such as Miss...
Review: Tokyo Ghost #1
Tokyo Ghost is a smash hit for Image Comics and our Cody Tromler is here to break downy the reasons why. Tokyo Ghost examines one bleak conclusion of our increasingly tech obsessed lifestyles. Taking its lead from other dystopian classics, Tokyo Ghost combines the policing...
Review: 8House #3
8House #3 by Image Comics is a fascinating read and our Magen Cubed is here with an equally fascinating review. As a visual medium, comic books have a unique potential for innovative storytelling. This gives writers and artists freedom to play with narrative in interesting,...
Fatale: A Slow On The Draw Review
Have any of you heard of these two guys Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips, and this thing they do called Fatale? They’re not too shabby! In Praise Of The Authors: Exaggerated opening aside, I love when I see just one of those names on a...
Image Comics And The Female Experience
Image Comics is home to some of the most compelling female-centred content in comics and our Magen Cubed is here to take a deep dive into their latest offerings. There has been a great deal of discussion in the last few years about the role...
How Starve Explores America’s Relationship with Food
Starve from Image Comics is a sharp character drama that examines America's increasingly bizarre relationship with food. The creative team, consisting of writer Brian Wood, artist Danijel Zezelj, and colorist Dave Stewart, do so by lampooning the melodrama of competition cooking shows. Taken on face-value,...
Wolf #1: The Spirit of Film Noir
Wolf #1 from Image Comics promises a city full of monsters and the pulpy swagger of crime noir. The creative team, consisting of writer Ales Kot, artist Matt Taylor, and colorist Lee Loughridge, deliver on that promise with bravado. Theirs is an otherworldly Los Angeles...
Review: Shutter #13
Shutter #13 from Image Comics is a book about a lot of things. Despite its fantastical settings, off-kilter storybook cast, and the distinctive theatricality of Kristopher clan drama, this title’s lofty yet deeply personal themes often fly close to the sun. To the credit of...
8House: Arclight #1 – A Softer Kind of Fantasy
Images Comics' 8House: Arclight #1 by writer Brandon Graham and artist Marian Churchland presents a different kind of fantasy story. In a pop culture landscape currently dominated by the harrowing violence, political intrigue, and hard edges of worlds like G.R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones, 8House...
Empty Zone #1: Death and Cyberpunk
Empty Zone #1 from creator Jason Shawn Alexander and Image Comics trades on a very specific kind of sci-fi nostalgia. Steeped in allusions to notable classics like Tank Girl, Blade Runner, and William Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy, Empty Zone wants to be an amalgamation of your...
Starve #1: A Culinary Battle Royale
Image Comics' Starve #1 from writer Brian Wood, artist Daniel Zezelj, and colorist David Stewart has a bone to pick with the modern state of cooking shows. In a world of increasingly hyperbolic culinary tournaments, the simple act of teaching others to cook has morphed...
Review: Chrononauts #1
Written by Mark Millar, Chrononauts is his latest attempt to take a well-trod story and tell it in a more mature and realistic style. If Mark Millar's comics has shown us anything, it's that he has an uncanny way of making new music out of...
Airboy #1: Sex, Drugs and Comic Books
Image Comics' Airboy #1 from James Robinson and Greg Hinkle is a sharp, cynical, and uncompromisingly funny look at the comic book industry. In an age of reboots and reimaginings, as nearly-forgotten properties like Marvelman (now published as Miracleman due to legal issues) and Flash...