Category: Comics
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Book Review – Code Monkey Save World #1
I’m betting most of you reading this have at least a passing familiarity with Jonathan Coulton, even if it’s just from his song Still Alive from the end of the amazing Portal video game. Â Code Monkey Save World is a graphic novel adaptation of some of JoCo’s music, written by Greg Pak (currently of Batman/Superman…
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Book Review – The Black Beetle: No Way Out
As I’ve eased my way back into comics, I’ve discovered a few artists I like. Â One of those is Francesco Francavilla, who I first saw filling in on Hawkeye. Â His style edges more towards noir and pulp, and it’s never looked better than in his own comic series, The Black Beetle. Â Taking it’s cues from…
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Book Review – Arrow, Volume 1
I got a galley copy of the first collection of the Arrow tie-in comic (issues 1-6 and the #1 special edition) and while it certainly has the feel of the show down for the serious parts, it’s sorely lacking the humor and charm of Amell’s ‘hood’. Â It also makes little sense unless you are keeping…
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Book Review – The 47 Ronin
The 47 Ronin adapts a classic Japanese story of Bushido, the Samurai code of honor. Â This particular adaptation is in graphic novel form, having been written by Sean Michael Wilson and Akiko Shimojima handling the art duties. Â It follows the tale of a group of samurai, disgraced and left leaderless after their lord had assaulted…
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Why you should be reading Hawkeye
I went a long time without reading an actual comic book. Â I gave up on them when they started to get too expensive. Â They cost a buck when I did most of my collecting, and individual issues routinely go for $3-4 now. Â But I really wanted to get into them again thanks to the pure…
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Book Review – Dragon Age: Those Who Speak
I got my hands on a galley copy of Dragon Age: Those Who Speak, the latest graphic novel filling in the gaps in the Dragon Age universe.  Written by David Gaider, this comic follows Dragon Age: The Silent Grove and takes Alistair, Varric and Isabela to the Tevinter Imperium, giving us a taste of that foul place, continuing…
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Book Review – Dragon Age: The Silent Grove
The Silent Grove is graphic novel set in the Dragon Age universe, written by the same man who was the main writer of the games, David Gaider, along with Alexander Freed and Chad Hardin. If you’ve read this site at all, you know I loved Dragon Age: Origins and it’s related content, and came around…