February 22, 2015 Johanna Oni Press / Lion Forge Leave a comment

Possessions Volume 4: The Final Tantrum

It’s been three years since the previous book (author Ray Fawkes was putting out two graphic novels for adults as well as working on several titles for DC in the meantime), but we finally get to find out what the pit demon Gurgazon will do now that she’s broken free of zoo-like captivity. Don’t be misled by the title, though — the series doesn’t end here. Gurgazon first appeared in Possessions: Unclean Getaway, where she became part of a collection […]

The Double Life of Miranda Turner #4 cover

February 22, 2015 Johanna Other Publishers One comment

Catching Up With The Double Life of Miranda Turner

Last year, I told you about The Double Life of Miranda Turner, a digital comic by Jamie S. Rich and George Kambadais about a young superhero mentored by her dead sister who formerly had the role. Although the premise sounds angsty, it mostly ignores that in favor of a good amount of comedy and action, driven by creative ideas for villains for Miranda, as the Cat, to battle. Two issues, #4 and #5, came out this past winter, with #6 […]

February 21, 2015 Johanna Titan Comics 2 comments

Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor #1

I was curious to try the launch of the Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor comic series, because I lost interest in the show in the second half of the Eleventh Doctor’s TV run. As a result, I haven’t seen any of the Peter Capaldi Doctor Who episodes. I thought the first issue, written by Robbie Morrison with art by Dave Taylor, might give me a good idea whether I should bother catching up. If driving interest in the master property […]

Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor #5 photo cover

February 21, 2015 Johanna Art One comment

Doctor Who Photo Covers Create New Companions

The Doctor Who comics, like so many these days, are available with multiple covers. There’s usually a main art cover, possibly a painted variant, but there’s also been a lot of photo covers. These are easy enough to make with clip art, since there are likely tons of images of the previous Doctors in costume, striking poses, but what I’ve found particularly interesting is when they do photo covers with the new companions. The Eleventh Doctor, for example, doesn’t travel […]

February 18, 2015 KC Books About Comics Leave a comment

Marvel: The Avengers Vault

Review by KC Carlson Between the years of 2007 and 2011, a publisher named Running Press issued a series of beautifully written and produced Vault books on the histories of comics’ biggest companies (Marvel and DC Comics — both previously reviewed by me, here at CWR) and their top characters (Batman and Spider-Man). Despite the similar title, this new 2015 Avengers Vault book, from a different publisher, Thunder Bay Press, is not like those books. In fact, I think the […]

February 17, 2015 Johanna Other Prose Leave a comment

Win a Copy of Stan Lee’s New Book, The Zodiac Legacy

Stan Lee has leant his name to a new series project. This time it’s prose, co-written with (former Helix editor) Stuart Moore. The Zodiac Legacy is a new young adult novel, intended to start a series, about Steven Lee, a young man who stumbles into a mystical ceremony. A powerful man, full of hubris, is trying to take all the powers of the Chinese Zodiac into himself, but Steven winds up with the Tiger power, based on his birth sign. […]

February 14, 2015 Johanna Comic News Leave a comment

Usagi Yojimbo Returns After Three-Year Hiatus

It’s an unfortunate quirk of human nature that long-running quality projects are easy to overlook. A consistent good read doesn’t get the kind of press or attention a hot artist (who will do three issues) or a plot twist (reversed next year) or a crossover (a lot of sound and fury with no long-lasting results) or movie tie-in (because comics loves Hollywood validation) does. Which is my excuse for not noticing that it’s been three years since we’ve seen an […]

February 13, 2015 Johanna Comic Book Films 2 comments

Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts Original Animated Movie Aimed at Kids

DC and Warner Bros. have apparently had enough success with their original animated movie line, of which the most recent release is Justice League: Throne of Atlantis, that they’ve put out 22 of them. However, these films are distinctly Not for Kids, since they’re rated PG-13 and feature amounts of violence (and more recently, sexual insinuations) that make that rating accurate. Yet kids like DC superheroes, and so do their merchandising partners. JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time, for example, is […]

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