Scott Snyder's run on Detective Comics has produced a unique narrative for Dick Grayson who is just stepping into the role of Batman. Grayson, Snyder shows us, is a performer about to get eaten to the city he loves. [12.May.11]
This past Friday saw Radical announce a partnership with IM Global to produce The Last Days of American Crime. What's being offered though is not simply a film, but a wholesale reinvigoration of popular culture. [10.May.11]
By Michael D. Stewart
Although sharing much in common with Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips' moody Incognito, Gladstone's School for World Conquerors gets behind the mask by lampooning the genre instead. [09.May.11]
Elric: The Balance Lost is an easy-to-read introduction for the forthcoming ongoing series. But the heart of this beautiful book is BOOM! Studios CEO Ross Richie's appreciation of Michael Moorcock's timeless character. [05.May.11]
Most second issues just cement the plot. Like a good mixtape, you want to start off with a bang. The next track has to turn up the heat even more. What better way to bring the heat then turning up the action with hot plot points? [03.May.11]
Like the original movie, Planet of the Apes #1 explores the relationship between apes and humans in the speculative fiction of other apes having ascended the food chain. But at its heart, this is a parable for power corrupting even the ostensibly incorruptible and a humankind that will, never go away. [02.May.11]
Writer David Hine's deployment of the noir crime thriller genre is so purely expressive that it's easy to miss the hidden depths that elevate
Ryder on the Storm to Hemingway levels of storytelling. Download your preview
here.
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Like Pulp Fiction and other tent poles of the neo-noir/pulp genre, Blue Estate features a varied cast that is a veritable feast of post-modern enigmas, but with only the first issue out, it's early days yet. [26.Apr.11]