Vertigo Fables 1: Legends In Exile
Imagine the very well known and much familiar childhood stories characters, somehow living here, in our world of the 21st century. The comic 'Fables' is all about taking these characters and...
View ArticleVertigo Crossing Midnight 1: Cut Here
This excellent comic book takes place in Japan, instantly making it a lot more interesting to me - at last something different! With slight touches of suspense and horror, the story draws us into the...
View ArticleVertigo Madame Xanadu issues 1 and 2: By The Runes
Madame Xanadu is an old DC comics character, first published in 1978. Now, she is recreated in this new vertigo comics series. Madame Xanadu is actually Nimue Inwudu, an immortal forest nymph who...
View ArticleTokyopop Fool's Gold 1
Zoom-in on Colorado, and look for a small town near the mountains. Zoom-in some more and enter sophomore year in high school. Come a bit closer and meet Penny, our blonde freckled teen heroine, in...
View ArticleTop Cow Witchblade 1: Witch Hunt
Sarah Pezzini is a New Yorker detective. Though extremely beautiful, Sarah is more than just your average perfect girl. Sarah is the bearer of a power artifact, called the witchblade. The witchblade...
View ArticleDark Horse Serenity 1: Those Left Behind / Serenity 2: Better Days
If you are a fan of the Firefly series like myself, then reading this comic, would probably feel at first, like meeting long gone and much missed old friends. Being as addicted to the "Firefly", you...
View ArticleVertigo Northlanders 1: Sven The Returned
From the bright and warm Constantinople, the greatest city of his time, to the cold shores of his childhood, the tale of Sven the returned sways us immediately into darkly painted sceneries, all the...
View ArticleVertigo Crossing Midnight 2: A Map Of Midnight
Last we left Toshi and Kaikou hara in the first volume of Crossing Midnight, they had just been separated by powers that they had only begun to understand. Toshi was taken by the lord of knives,...
View ArticleVertigo WE3
This one is a little hard to describe, nevertheless I will try to. It is a short story, taking upon an unconventional theme, conveying one or two not-very-shallow - dare I even say - profound ideas.
View ArticleMarvel Runaways 1: Pride and Joy
What are six rich teenagers from sunny California to do while they are stuck in the game room, waiting for their parents to finish their boring annual-charity-fund-raising-gathering-thing? You got it...
View ArticleDark Horse Fray
The first thing I'd like to say about Fray is simply that I loved this comic book so much, I actually started reading it all over again right after finishing it. I really wished the story of Fray...
View ArticleVertigo Fables 2: Animal Farm
After the nasty trick, that Rose Red and her probably soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend, Jack of the tales, tried to pull in the first volume of Fables, Snow White decides that she needs to spend some serious...
View ArticleDDP The Legend of Drizzt Book I: Homeland
Once upon a time, I was young(er) and used to play Dungeons and Dragons. It was long before the online role-playing games were even conceived, so it was basically good old make-believe adventures, in...
View ArticleVertigo Northlanders 2: The Cross + The Hammer
The year is 1014 AD, come the battle of Clontarf, at which Brian Boru, High-King of Ireland, fought against the Norse king Sigtrygg of Dublin. Wrapped around these true historical events, the second...
View ArticleDDP The Legend of Drizzt Book II: Exile
So what's in store for our renegade hero, dark elf Drizzt, in this second volume of The Legend of Drizzt? Well, it's the long dark of the Underdark I'm afraid. We have parted with Drizzt in the end of...
View ArticleTop Cow Witchblade 2: Awakenings
I know I said that the first volume of the renewed Witchblade series wasn't exactly my cup of tea; but short while after saying, there I was - feeling an inexplicable urge to read super-heroine stuff...
View ArticleDark Horse Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Eight: The Long Way Home
"The thing about changing the world...Once you do it, the world's all different." With these very appropriate words, begins season eight of Buffy, in its latest reincarnation as a graphic novel. Well,...
View ArticleVertigo The Unwritten 1: Tommmy Taylor And The Bogus Identity
The life of Tom Taylor is falling apart. He's a failing actor, failing musician, failing novelist. As his slick, slightly devilish and way too knowledgeable personal manager points out, "Nothing seems...
View ArticleVertigo Fables 3: Storybook Love
So, what have we got in Fables so far? The first two volumes were introductory,familiarizing us with the secret community of the immortal fables living in modern-day Manhattan (well, some of the...
View ArticleDark Horse Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Eight: No Future For You
The second volume of "Buffy Season Eight" was really fun to read, thanks to its lightweight story-arc, which directs the spotlight on Faith - our misunderstood, and for a while now - reformed slayer.
View ArticleBook review: The Foundling And Other Tales Of Prydain
If I am to highlight one series of books, which I've read like a gazillion times over as a kid, I'm definitely pointing out 'The Chronicles of Prydain' by Lloyd Alexander. As some may well remember,...
View ArticleBook review: Dead Until Dark
Finally, I picked up Dead Until Dark, the book that True Blood (the TV series) is based on. I was curious to see what's all the fuss about, and whether the book is all they say the series is.
View ArticleNorthlanders 3: Blood In The Snow
For the most part, I consider Northlanders to be a highly unique comic series; it's a grim, realistic historical drama, about the clash of Norsemen and Saxons, back in the much legendary Viking era....
View ArticleThe Secret of Kells
It's a long while now that I've really longed to watch an animated movie that is interesting for adults, childishly magical, and truly moving without being cliche. It wouldn't hurt if the animation...
View ArticleDark Horse Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Eight: Wolves at the Gate
Remember how I said that I can't really expect "Buffy Season Eight" to be anywhere as good as the TV series? Well, maybe I actually said that quietly in my own head; but after having read the first...
View ArticleFables 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers
Finally! War and battle and plenty of action await in the fourth volume of Fables alongside satisfying amounts of tragic love, betrayal, and several sorts of witchery.
View ArticleBuffy Season Eight: Time of Your Life
Here's another slightly incoherent, nevertheless endearing volume of Buffy Season Eight...
View ArticleFables 5: The Mean Seasons
The fifth installment of Fables serves as a restful pause in-between two climactic volumes...
View ArticleNorthlanders 4: The Plague Widow
Picture the following: A thick white winter covers the Northlands wilderness once again, with unbearable cold...
View ArticleBuffy Season 8: Predators and Prey
The fifth volume of Buffy Season Eight is patched up from several different short stories, collated together to illustrate a world where vampires are the latest-hottest trend, all thanks to the most...
View ArticleSerenity 3: The Shepherd's Tale
I just loved how the life-story of Shepherd Book was structured - starting from the moment of his death (on planet Haven, as we well know from the movie 'Serenity') and going backwards to the unknown...
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