Recent Comic Reviews

O Human Star: Volume One by Blue Delliquanti

Comic: O Human Star: Volume One
Release date: April 2015
Writer and Artist: Blue Delliquanti
Cover: full-color
Interior: full-color
Synopsis: Alastair Sterling was the inventor who sparked the robot revolution. And because of his sudden death, he didn't see any of it.
That is, until he wakes up 16 years later in a robot body that matches his old one exactly. Until he steps outside and finds a world utterly unlike the one he left behind - a world where robots live alongside their human neighbors and coexist in their cities. A world he helped create. 
Now Al must track down his old partner Brendan to find out who is responsible for Al's unexpected resurrection, but their reunion raises even more questions. Like who the robot living with Brendan is. And why she looks like Al. And how much of the past should stay in the past...


Unit 44, Part 2 of 4 by Wes Locher and Eduardo Jiménez

Comic: Unit 44, Part 2 of 4
Release date: 22 April 2015
Writer: Wes Locher
Artist: Eduardo Jiménez
Publisher: Alterna
Cover: full-color
Interior: full-color
Synopsis: Agents Gibson and Hatch catch up with Chester and Ike, the men who purchased the contents of unit 44, but the items have disappeared once again. Just what was inside the locker and why is Senior Agent Ballard so desperate to get it back? In the midst of the chaos a new threat reveals itself.

Zarjaz #23, edited by Dave Evans and Richmond Clements

Comic: Zarjaz, issue 23
Release date: March 2015
Editors: Dave Evans and Richmond Clements
Writers: Lee Robson, Stuart Catley, J.J. Robinson, Adam Breen, Alexi Conman, Matt Sharp and  Martin Currie
Artists: Alfie Gallagher, Stuart Catley, Mike Bunt, Jim Lavery, Roland Bird, David Broughton and Martin Currie
Cover: Mark Harrison, full-colour
Interior: black/white
Synopsis: Zarjaz is a non-profit fanzine based upon 2000AD. The fanzine is an anthology, publishing stories from within the realm of 2000AD. Some of the current writers and artists of 2000AD started their journey here, between the pages of Zarjaz


FutureQuake: Issue 26. Edited by Dave Evans and Richmond Clements

Comic: FutureQuake: Issue 26
Release date: March 2015
Editors: Dave Evans and Richmond Clements
Writers: Alec Charles, Gary Chudleigh, Alexi Conman, Umar Ditta, Jim Lavery, Alec Robertson, Lee Robson, JJ Robinson 
Artists: Jim Groasdale, Marc Ducrow, Jim Lavery, Rui Mendes, Alex Paterson, Xia, RH Stewart, Matt Soffe (cover), Darren Mullen, Barry Renshaw, 
Cover: full-color
Interior: black/white
Synopsis: The stories inside FutureQuake are generally five pages or less, and often follow the 'twist in the tail' set up popularised by EC comics and 2000AD's Future Shocks. Any genre or story within the rough boundaries of sf/fantasy/horror/romance/comedy or any permutations thereof.

Unit 44, Part 1 of 4 by Wes Locher and Eduardo Jiménez

Comic: Unit 44, Part 1 of 4
Release date: 25 March 2015
Writer: Wes Locher
Artist: Eduardo Jiménez
Publisher: Alterna
Cover: full-color
Interior: full-color
Synopsis: Inept Area 51 employees forget to pay the rent on the facility's off-site storage unit, leaving the secret contents to be sold to a pair of backwoods rednecks at public auction.

Legend of the Mantamaji: Book Three by Eric Dean Seaton and Brandon Palas

Graphic novel: Legend of the Mantamaji: Book Three
Release date: Febuary 2015
Writer: Eric Dean Seaton
Artist: Brandon Palas
Publisher: And... Action Entertainment
Cover: full-color
Interior: full-color
Synopsis: Beaten, betrayed, and left for dead, Elijah Alexander, the last Mantamaji, knows the end of the world is at hand Soon Sirach will carry out his plan to open the Gates of Time and after Earth's history to suit his purposes. How can Elijah stop Sirach, when he's already failed before? To succeed, he will have to put aside vengeance, ignore his pain, and listen to a wisdom he's forgotten. But he, and the world, are running out of time. 


Killjoy, issue no.2 by Robert Brown

Comic: Killjoy, issue #2
Release date: 2013
Writer: Robert Brown
Artist: Robert Brown
Cover: full color
Interior: black on white paper
Synopsis: Killjoy is a vehicle for my ongoing cartoon memoir project, Catch a Fairy, a gradual accumulation of stories and vignettes from my childhood.


Legend of the Mantamaji: Book Two by Eric Dean Seaton and Brandon Palas

Graphic novel: Legend of the Mantamaji: Book Two
Release date: December 2014
Writer: Eric Dean Seaton
Artist: Brandon Palas
Publisher: And... Action Entertainment
Cover: full-color
Interior: full-color
Synopsis: In a single week, Elijah Alexander has gone from being a famous and successful ADA in New York, to a hunted, haunted renegade on a mission of vengeance. Because Elijah is the last of a race of ancient warriors called the Mantamaji who once fought the world's greatest evils. And now the only one with the power to get it done-- because it takes a warrior to kill a mystical being. Or four of them.


 
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