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Vs #1 is a Captivating but Muddled Exploration of War as Entertainment

February 9, 2018 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Vs Esad Ribic

Almost exactly two years ago, Image Comics teased Ivan Brandon and Esad Ribic’s “space gladiators” series Vs, whetting the appetites of sci-fi fans looking for some Heinleinian exploration of military evolution to offset the wave of post-apocalyptic and cyberpunk works that had taken over the genre. That wave is still rising, if anything it’s grown larger, […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Aditya Bidikar, Esad Ribic, Image Comics, Ivan Brandon, Nic Klein, Tom Muller, Vs

Bingo Love has Laudable Aims but Its Storytelling Falters

February 2, 2018 By Elizabeth Brei Leave a Comment

Queer people don’t usually get to see themselves live happily ever after in most media. We get the love stories that end in tragedy. This is largely because non-queer people are making most of the media that represents us–which means we’re not really represented in it at all. So it’s refreshing to see a book […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Bingo Love, comics, Image Comics, indie comics, Jenn St-onge, Joy San, Tee Franklin

Winnebago Graveyard Offers Ample Thrills but Needs More Space to Tell its Story

September 13, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

No matter how often we took them, family trips always made me uneasy. I’d sit in the back seat imagining all the ways we could meet untimely ends, burning through books and comics that only provided further nightmare fuel. What is the American interior but a patchwork quilt of ideal murder spots and forgotten places […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Alison Sampson, Image Comics, Steve Niles, Winnebago Graveyard

Why Does Image’s Vision of the Future of Comics Mostly Center Around Exploiting Queer Voices?

July 3, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Image Comics

For the past month or so, the key buzzword in comics has been “conversation.” At some point, the problem children of comics realized that shock was a loaded term and they needed to find a new way to absolve themselves of blame and guilt any time a questionable work of theirs received intense scrutiny and […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: comics, Eric Stephenson, Howard Chaykin, Image Comics

What Conversation is Image Actually Willing to Listen to with Divided States of Hysteria?

June 14, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Divided States of Hysteria

Having even a slight interest in comics while being active on Twitter means witnessing more or less nonstop conversation about the industry, its works and the creators living within it. Comics is in a state of constant discourse, partially because even as its impact on culture grows, its world remains unbelievably small, making it easy […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: comics, Divided States of Hysteria, Eric Stephenson, Howard Chaykin, Image Comics

Image Comics’ Plastic Makes One Wonder if the Future of the Medium is as Dead-Eyed as a Realdoll?

April 21, 2017 By David Fairbanks Leave a Comment

Plastic is par for the course for mainstream American comics. The only female presence on the book is the colorist, and the only women in the comic exist as mentions (the protagonist’s mother and another character’s dead wife). This is a comic that refuses to pretend: the only visual representation of a woman is a […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Comic, Daniel Hillyard, Doug Wagner, Ed Dukeshire, Image Comics, Laura Martin, Plastic, Review

Questionable Comics: Steve Lieber and Chandra Free

April 11, 2017 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Steve Lieber

Questionable Comics is a series where Dan Hill surveys professionals from every corner of the comics industry about their methods and experience. Up first is Steve Lieber, whose work has been published everywhere from DC to Marvel to Image, where he can currently be seen on The Fix, volume two of which comes out tomorrow, April 12th. What […]

Filed Under: Features, Interviews Tagged With: Archaia, Chandra Free, comics, Image Comics, Questionable Comics, Steve Lieber, The Fix, The God Machine

Black Cloud #1 is a Promising Political Fantasy Bogged Down by Exposition

April 5, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Black Cloud Greg Hinkle Ivan Brandon Jason Latour

When you get down to it, America essentially willed itself into being a global superpower by hyping up and commodifying the collective dream of America. The Industrial Revolution saw rogues and con artists and thieves rebrand themselves as entrepreneurs, who sold their fellow Americans and the world at large on the idea of themselves as […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Black Cloud, comics, fantasy, Greg Hinkle, Image Comics, Ivan Brandon, Jason Latour, Matt Wilson

Extremity Manages to Make Dismemberment Poetic

March 2, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Extremity

There’s an ongoing joke about DC Comics being Dismemberment Comics because of the publisher’s obsession with severing characters’ limbs to prove how Mature comics are now. It’s an easy trick since we tend to have a pretty visceral reaction to any injury that gets in the way of our mobility and cleverness. We rely so […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: comics, Daniel Warren Johnson, Extremity, Image Comics, Mike Spicer, Skybound

Curse Words #1 is an Unrelenting Punchline to a Joke No One Set Up

January 19, 2017 By Alex Mansfield Leave a Comment

Curse Words Ryan Browne Charles Soule Image Comics

To dust off an old chestnut, comedy, like all art, is subjective. One person’s Peter Sellers is another’s Adam Sandler.  Unfortunately, Curse Words is far more Little Nicky than it is Dr. Strangelove. The elevator pitch of a wizard sent to destroy the world only to fall in love with it and use his powers […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Charles Soule, Curse Words, Image Comics, Ryan Browne

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