If the dead rise in Arkham and no one is alive to scream, are they still scary? It’s time for Miskatonic #3 as written by Mark Sable, penciled by Giorgio Pontrelli, colored by Pippa Bowland and lettered by Thomas Mauer. Will Nevin: So. We have news. Justin Partridge: Such WONDROUS news, Little Monsters! Just as…
This is a week for catching up, for getting to a few of those books I’ve “been meaning to” for “an inordinate amount of time” which is now apparently “leading to an abuse of sarcastic quotes.” To the books, Geoffrey! 10. Batman: The Abduction. Writer: Alan Grant, Artist: Norm Breyfogle, Inker: James A. Hodgkins, Colorist:…
Years and years ago, in the days when I still lived at home and was fraught with teen mopiness, I had a blue overstuffed recliner in my room, a worn out hand-me-down that I loved until it literally fell apart. (If memory serves, I think the left arm gave out.) But in those days, I’d…
Friends, I got too excited last week. I wanted to share this bright and shiny new toy of ours, and I don’t think I properly explained what we (That’s you, Loyal Content Consumer, and me) are doing here. [Grote’s note: I tried to tell him, folks.] Each week, I’m going to run down 10 comics…
I have experimented with different columns and different formats over the five or so years I’ve been writing about comics, but you, Loyal Content Consumer, don’t necessarily care about that; no, you care about the comics, and I want to care about the comics with you. When I’m curled up in my big ratty office…
What if the last 60 years of American history was a carefully orchestrated conspiracy designed to teach the president who really runs the country? Wouldn’t that be something? Vishal Gullapalli, Forrest Hollingsworth and Will Nevin team up to talk over The Department of Truth #4 by James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds, Aditya Bidikar, Dylan Todd…
Miskatonic’s Magical Misery Tour continues with a trip to Arkham in AfterShock Comics’ Miskatonic #2. Written by Mark Sable, penciled by Giorgio Pontrelli, colored by Pippa Bowland and lettered by Thomas Mauer, Miskatonic #2 finds our intrepid investigators on the run from the Dagon cultists, aiming toward deeper, darker corners of Lovecraft Country. We open…
“People don’t believe in God,” says Jesus Christ in Second Coming #1, “so much as they hope for a witness to their suffering.” Thus began a series from writer Mark Russell and artist Richard Pace that surprised readers and critics alike. Far from the blasphemous screed the Fox News crowd assumed it would be before…
What if reality was only as real as people believed it was? What if it could change depending on popular support? And what if the real breakout Image comic of 2020 was not a thing that purportedly had something to say about superheroes but actually had something to offer about the way in which conspiracy…
Welcome back to Bat Chat with Matt (and Will!). This week we’re back to just one book with the conclusion of the Ghost-Maker story, as Batman faces off with his foe and Harley has a heart-to-heart with Clownhunter in Batman #105 by James Tynion IV, Carlo Pagulayan & Danny Miki, Alvaro Martinez & Christian Duce…
I have interviewed a mess o’ people over the years — Jason Aaron, Scott Snyder, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Charles Soule and Brian Michael Bendis to obscenely drop a few names — but outside of Eliot Rahal and Kyle Starks (two repeat customers who are always good for great insights and even better laughs), my favorite…
The malevolent machinations of the Clown Prince of Crime are apparently too much for the paltry pages of Batman or even Detective Comics as writer James Tynion IV, artist Guillem March and more will bring the rogues’ gallery’s most famous (and bankable) villain to his own ongoing prestige series The Joker starting in March. According…
Everything is bad. And there are a few people to blame. The Splash When I’m good and angry and I want to wreck someone and the facts fit the moment, I reach for something special. It’s not “asshole” (vague, common), nor “bastard” (weak) nor “motherfucker” (got a nice sound to it, but it’s not angry…
Beyond this point lie spoilers for “Crossover” #1. Ye be warned… The Splash “Crossover,” the meta comic-book-about-comic-books from the mind of writer Donny Cates and artist Geoff Shaw, has a heap of stuff to talk about — the merits of which have already been ably discussed by Big Boss Zack and Dan “the Man” McMahon….
In its solicit text, AfterShock’s “Miskatonic” promises “a mix of historical crime fiction and Lovecraftian horror that dives deep into the American nightmare.” Let’s get into the new series from Mark Sable, Giorgio Pontrelli, Pippa Bowland and Thomas Mauer and see if it pays off those dark and abominable promises.