Comics

A collection of beautiful, dark, strange, and hilarious moments, the sparse narrative of Noel Freibert’s graphic novel Old Ground occurs entirely within the withered Old Maple Grove cemetery. Composed in dripping black splotches and lines so fine they might better ...

Batman is a hard case. He’s been dissected by hundreds of writers, illustrated and reinvented by just as many artists. On the big screen, he’s been worn by eight actors and voiced by numerous others in radio dramas, cartoons, and ...

Everyone has that classic they never got around to reading, but if I don’t mention how many years a Barnes and Noble leather-bound edition of Jane Eyre has been sitting on my book shelf, it’s probably because it’s not my ...

There’s more than enough room for human-dog partnerships across Jim Henson’s oeuvre, but it’s true. For a while there I was convinced the narrators of Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Giants were Fraggle Rock’s Doc and Sprocket. Doc wore glasses and ...

Marcus King is not a terrorist. Anyone who feels they should begin with that assurance probably shouldn’t be taken at their word, but that’s where writer, Alex De Campi, delivers her first blow in Bankshot #1. Right before professing he’s ...

The idea of being watched has always been horrifying but what if you were being watched… by no one? That sentence might sound like it’s trying too hard, but writer, Cullen Bunn, and artist, Jack T. Cole, have created a ...

Thirty years ago, the infamous Dillon (Carl Weathers) deceived an elite rescue team, led by his old friend Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger), into infiltrating the inhospitable jungles of South America under the guise of saving survivors of a massive helicopter crash. ...

Hellboy debuted in 1994, nearly a quarter century ago, with the indie comic book publisher Dark Horse Comics. Against all odds, the Right Hand of Doom has continued on and found himself in the upper echelon of comic book deities ...

Witchfinder: City of the Dead continues the adventures of Sir Edward Grey, occult investigator by Appointment to her Majesty, Queen Victoria and created by Mike Mignola. This fourth instalment of the Hellboy spin-off, which was originally published as five individual ...

You could be forgiven if your knowledge of Conan is limited to two super violent, strangely sexualised Arnold Schwarzenegger movies from the ‘80s, and one ill-fated Jason Momoa vehicle from 2011 (everyone forgets Red Sonja (1985) so we shall too). ...