Issues: Issue 319 - July 2015
Review: G.I. Joe: The IDW Collection
G.I. Joe is an institution for any young woman who came up through the ‘80s. This fifth volume collection adds a new layer onto the fabled history of the Joes and gives us something to get the kids to grow their comic reading obsession. … read more
Review: Intersect: Vol 1. Metamorph
It isn’t often that a comic intrigues and confuses simultaneously, but the first six issues of Intersect collected into a trade have done just that. The wispy and colorful art style is supported with the fragmented story as you watch the battle between two lovers entwined in the same body. … read more
Review: MPH
Throw anything you know about science out the window and this book becomes instantly loveable. When an inmate finally caves to drugs and ends up with a batch of a mystery pill that provides super speed, he and his friends go on a crime spree to get vengeance on America’s 1 percent. … read more
Review: punkrockpaperscissors
Punkrockpaperscissors is an amazing, one-of-a-kind compilation that showcases about 600 of the best 80’s punk and hardcore show flyers that were based in America. It’s an original history 13 years in the making that focuses on these alternative scenes and underground artists like nothing else that really exists to this extent. … read more
Review: Rat Queens – Volume Two
It’s refreshing to read a series that treats equally with the fantastical stories of a well-run Dungeons & Dragons game and genuinely touching personal backstories. The Rat Queens are a team of rough-and-tumble adventurers-for-hire who drink heavily and live as large as they can in the little city of Palisade. … read more
Review: Southern Bastards – Volume 2
Southern Bastards – Volume 2: Guardians Writer: Jason Aaron Artist: Jason Latour Image Comics Street: 05.19 I didn’t realize that compelling stories could be written about football, and I’ll say it for all of us: Southern Bastards has as much to do with football as The Walking Dead has to do with zombies. Football, like
Review: Superannuated Man
Beginning a review with WTF did I just read is probably as cliche’ as the post-apocalyptic story you’ll think you’re getting yourself into. Ted McKeever tells a chaotic tell of the last man on earth surviving in a world full of mutated animals that have taken over. … read more
Review: Thomas Alsop: The Hand of the Island Vol. 1
If you could be a rockstar gone web-series celebrity due to your incredible talent to fight the supernatural wouldn’t you? This book while loaded with supernatural tropes is still a fun ride through a group of friends shenanigans, truthfully coming back to haunt them. … read more
Review: Max
I honestly had no idea how long dogs had been used in the military to seek out mines and weapons caches, or that some could acquire PTSD like their human handlers. In Boaz Yakin’s family-friendly tale, we follow a Belgian Malinois named Max who loses his handler, Kyle Wincott (Robbie Amell), during a firefight in Afghanistan and can no longer perform his duties due to PTSD. … read more
Review: Jurassic World
It’s hard to believe that it’s been exactly 22 years since the original Jurassic Park attempted to open its doors, but that’s where Jurassic World begins. Now that John Hammond’s idea has become a reality and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) is doing everything she can to run a successful theme park, the notion of creating new dinosaur breeds by splicing various DNA strands together is the latest attraction. … read more