Comics
We Already Have the Perfect Template for a Halloween Reboot (And it’s a Comic)
Rebooting a franchise can be a tricky thing these days. The new approach seems to be to tell a new story that stands completely on its own but doesn’t necessarily negate what came before. The 2...
Why Swamp Thing Worked So Well in Comics (But Not on Film)
If you’re not a comic book fan, you’re at least probably familiar with the name Swamp Thing. Maybe you remember it from the campy-but-fun Wes Craven movie. With that film, its sequel and...
Comic Review: Puppet Master #19
Puppet Master continues to provide a near-impossible balance of tying together even the most far afield holes in continuity, keeping incredibly faithful to everything that has come before, while also ...
Comic Review: Aliens: Life and Death #1
Aliens: Life and Death #1 continues the Alien saga releases by Dark Horse Comics. The book starts where the previous comics left off, following the surviving humans of LV-223 who have just faced ...
Comic Review: Alena
Love can be hard to reconcile, especially when it takes the form of scissor-wielding, murderous spirit. Alluring as it is gruesome, Kim W. Andersson’s Alena explores sexuality, doubt, and venge...
Comic Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer #30
Another comic book season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer has officially ended—although the blow is somewhat lessened by the fact that we only have to wait until November for the new season to star...
Comic Review: Aliens: Defiance #3
Aliens: Defiance #3 continues to be an interesting and well-told improvement for the franchise in comic form, but there’s not a whole lot in the third issue that really serves to elevate it abo...
Comic Review: Puppet Master #18
Things have taken a dramatic turn in Action Lab: Danger Zone’s Puppet Master. The entire status quo that’s been building over the past ten issues has been completely annihilated. Once ag...
Comic Review: Puppet Master #17
Puppet Master #17 manages to advance the story in an interesting and unexpected way, but it also has the advantage of being really, really weird. There have been a lot of smart moves in this comic in ...