Tweet Top 10 Deadliest Sharks (Silver Dragon Books – Brusha / Various) Sharks are one of the world’s oldest and most ferocious predators. For as long as man has entered the sea for work or recreation sharks have struck fear in their hearts. This groundbreaking graphic novel examines the world’s deadliest sharks and sheds light [...]

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Tweet Lulu publishing offers two new books giving insight into the geek phenomena of Adam West’s Batman and Watchmen. Sequart’s Gotham City 14 Miles: 14 Essays on Why the 1960s TV Series Matters and Minutes to Midnight: Twelve Essays on Watchmen are now available for purchase EXCLUSIVELY on Lulu.com. Gotham City 14 Miles offers the [...]

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Tweet EmiTown (Image – Lenox) From the whimsical to the tragic, EMI LENOX brings you into her world with superb cartooning, a brilliant cast of characters, and an innocent perspective often left on the cutting room floor of other diary comics. With a broad range of styles, everyday is an adventure from the morning breakfast [...]

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Tweet Back in March I had the pleasure of consuming Chicks Dig Time Lords, a brilliant collection of essays about female fandom as it relates to Doctor Who.  It is a fun and interesting read, I promise there is something there for everyone (review HERE, order HERE).  Seriously, pick it up – ultimate Summer reading! [...]

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Tweet Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Art of the Animated Series (Dark Horse / Nickelodeon – Konietzko / DiMartino) Sometimes, art books based on a property (animated or otherwise) are simply a way to fleece the general fan populace.  Mainstream publishers have been known to slap previously-seen art and minimal (and what seems like [...]

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Tweet Grimm Fairy Tales: Inferno #1 (Zenescope – Tedesco / Rearte / Embury / Campbell) The brand new Grimm Fairy Tales mini-series is here!  Grace is lost and restless in a big city where her nightmares seem all too real. Suffering from a form of amnesia, she only feels empty and confused. Her therapist overmedicates, [...]

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Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love it (Mad Norwegian Press) It’s true! From grandmothers to business women to law enforcement officers to fellow teachers to ten-year-old girls, chicks do indeed dig Time Lords.  In fact, dudes dig them too… and with good reason. Doctor Who, one of [...]

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The Oddly Compelling art of Denis Kitchen (Dark Horse – HC 200 pgs+, $34.99) If you were to randomly enter any comic book shop in America and bring up the name Denis Kitchen you would get a wide range of reactions.  This range would vary from passionate fans who would praise him for being an [...]

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Okay, perhaps that is an overstatement – well, perhaps not.  First, let me tell you that I am a HUGE fan of Rick Riordan and that his Olympian series is some of the best level-appropriate, high-interest books you can get for your pre-teen / middle schooler (and possibly your high-schooler).  Second, let me state that [...]

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A Second Chance at Sarah ( Ape Entertainment – Druckmann / Wong) A newborn son, a dying wife, and an arcane talisman, that’s what Johnny stares at when he considers the demon’s deal – Johnny’s soul in exchange for a chance to save his wife (whose soul has just been collected.)  Johnny nods and instantly, [...]

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The title just kind of says it all, doesn’t it? If you are a Doctor Who fan… you know, own your own Psychic Paper, are not ashamed of your Cybermen action figures, ever wished you owned either a TARDIS or a long multi-colored scarf, actually went to the store as a child looking for Jelly [...]

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Galveston TPB- (Boom! – Stokes / Herman) True fact – fabled pirate Jean Lafitte spent his last years not on the high seas, but in Texas. Guess who his buddy was? Jim Bowie. What adventures must a swashbuckling corsair and an American frontiersman have had together in the Old West? It’s DEADWOOD with pirates, man. [...]

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