Category: Comic Books

Empowered volume 12 Review
Comic Books
llyzabeth

Flashback Friday – Empowered volume 12

So, I screwed up you guys. I’d love to blame it on my big job change last year, but honestly by December I was nicely established at the new job, which is a long-winded way of saying I have no excuse for missing the release of Empowered Volume 12 FIVE MONTHS AGO. Mea culpa. And

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Dark Knights of Steel review
Comic Books
llyzabeth

Flashback Friday – Dark Knights of Steel

In what I hope will become a regular feature, this week I’m looking at 2021’s Dark Knights of Steel, which a friend just gave to me last month because he was appalled I’d never read it. The simplest way to explain it is that it’s all the DC superheroes but reimagined for medieval times. But

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Books
Kathryn Adams

2025 Hugo Awards – The Finalists

It’s that time of year! The nominees for the 2025 Hugo Awards have been announced, and this year I’ve actually read and reviewed three of the Hugo nominees, plus one of the Lodestar nominees for best YA novel! Check out the full list below (which will be updated on a regular basis as I get

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Comic Books
llyzabeth

WonderCon 2025 – Ridley Scott enters graphic novel space with Modville

This past weekend Jesse Negron (Mechanical Cake), Tom Moran (Scott Free), Dave Elliott (Mechanical Cake), and Anthony Francisco (senior visual development artist for Marvel Studios) discussed what is on the horizon for Mechanical Cake and Scott Free, starting with their debut graphic novel, Modville, Ridley Scott’s first foray into graphic novels. Modville is a sci-fi

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: Lazarus – Book 3

Yes, I know we never posted a review of Book 2 of Greg Rucka’s Lazarus graphic novel series. It’s an excellent book, you really should read it, but we can skip it for the purposes of Book 3, because it focuses on one of the many desperately poor families in this dystopian future, with the

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: Fine Print – Volume 2

Quick! There’s still time to buy Stjepan Šejić’s Fine Print – Volume 2 for someone as a Christmas present! Or maybe for yourself. Have you read this yet? Because you absolutely need to read this series if you love tales of love and sex wrapped up in mythology and glorious artwork. Volume 1 concluded by

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NiceHouseByTheSeaReview
Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review: The Nice House by the Sea

I’ve been meaning to do some catchup comic book reviews, and since this series has been eating my brain (in a good way) I’ll start here: keep reading for a review of James Tynion IV and Álvaro Martínez Bueno’s The Nice House by the Sea issues 1-4. Major spoiler warnings, both for this series and

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Saga69 review
Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review – Saga #69

“The strongest relationships all contain some element of mutually assured destruction.” Keep reading for a review of Saga #69. Minor spoilers below: I avoid the biggest plot points but I do talk around the edges of several of them. I don’t think you could ever simplify any issue of Saga into one “theme,” but if

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Comic Books
llyzabeth

SDCC 2024 – Skybound announces schedule of events and exclusives

Skybound Entertainment, the creator-led powerhouse entertainment company behind mega-hit franchises The Walking Dead, Invincible, Impact Winter, and more, once again will storm the city of San Diego for the 2024 Comic-Con International. Skybound returns to the world-famous convention for a 14th time and promises to delight fans with an incredible lineup of panels featuring Skybound

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