Madison Square Tragedy: The Murder of Stanford White cover

November 1, 2013 Johanna NBM / Papercutz 6 comments

Madison Square Tragedy: The Murder of Stanford White (A Treasury of XXth Century Murder)

Although Stanford White was murdered by a jealous husband over a hundred years ago (in 1906), the case Rick Geary portrays in his newest Treasury of XXth Century Murder, Madison Square Tragedy: The Murder of Stanford White, feels very modern. Rick Geary’s art is amazing in setting the stage in a booming New York City at the beginning of the 20th century, a growing metropolis struggling with conflicts among new money, established society, changing urban life, recent technologies, and burgeoning […]

October 27, 2013 Johanna Other Publishers 2 comments

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children: The Graphic Novel

You’d think that translating a book about odd photographs to the comic format would be a natural, given the use of images. Even the idea of children with special abilities echoes famous comic properties, like the X-Men. However, you’d be wrong about how well this would work, at least in this case. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children: The Graphic Novel (story by Ransom Riggs; art by Cassandra Jean) is a misfire, a muddled, unsatisfying, charmless read. Now, I haven’t […]

October 27, 2013 Johanna Titan Comics One comment

Death Sentence #1-2

written by Monty Nero art by Mike Dowling Titan Comics is actively plugging this six-issue miniseries as original (as can be seen by the cover blurbs), but I found it intriguing because it was a modern take on the Strikeforce: Morituri concept: you get superpowers, but that acquisition drastically shortens your life. In this case, there’s a G+ virus, sexually transmitted, that gives you abilities and six months to live. The big difference with Strikeforce: Morituri is that that series […]

October 26, 2013 Johanna Comic Book Films 4 comments

New Captain America: Winter Soldier Trailer Has More Black Widow, Falcon

Marvel Studios has released a new trailer for Captain America: The Winter Soldier that shows how the Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and the Falcon (Anthony Mackie) will play more of a role in the story, a development I’m excited to see. (Love the banter here!) The plot description is as follows: After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier finds Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, living quietly in Washington, D.C., and trying […]

October 22, 2013 Johanna Art 2 comments

Radiant: A Radium Girl’s Love Story

Slate does this thing called a 12-Panel Pitch, where a movie is storyboarded in a 12-panel comic strip. The first installment explains the concept, coming out of the Center for Cartoon Studies, and features a cross-cultural dance romance illustrated by Lena Chandhok. The second one really caught my attention, though, because it’s a heart-breaking true story illustrated by one of my favorite artists (because of the colored pencil technique), Melanie Gillman. It’s called Radiant, it’s written by noted novelist Tom […]

October 20, 2013 Johanna Dark Horse Leave a comment

The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story

Based on the large amount of publicity, creating The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story was a labor of love for author Vivek J. Tiwary. Unfortunately, while his affection for the subject shines through, he may have spent too much time in Epstein’s life, since it’s not always explained clearly to the casual reader. In short, this is one of those Beatles books where you already need to know the story of the Beatles and the details of the incidents […]

October 19, 2013 Johanna Other Prose Leave a comment

The Naturals

If you’re looking for CSI meets X-Men: First Class, the young adult thriller mystery The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes is right up your alley. Cassie has an innate ability to read people, one honed by her time on the road with her faux-psychic mother. But mom’s been dead for five years, murdered by someone unknown and the body missing. When an FBI agent comes calling, Cassie joins his special project, a group of teens with similar abilities to hers […]

October 16, 2013 Johanna Dark Horse One comment

Bloodhound: Crowbar Medicine #1

Bloodhound’s back! (His previous comic run was collected this summer as Brass Knuckle Psychology.) It took ten years, but I’m thrilled to see more adventures with (and hopefully more revelations) about the tough-guy supervillain fighter. Crowbar Medicine is a five-issue miniseries that opens with Travis Clevenger, the Bloodhound of the title (because he never lets go of things), trying to fit into an unusual environment for him, that of family. Dan Jolley does a terrific job reestablishing bits of his […]

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