Where fiction collides.
Mike Mignola is one of my favorite storytellers in comics, so the release of Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects from Dark Horse was hard to resist. All fangirlishness aside, find out whether the graphic novel hits its mark in my new review at OneMetal.com.
Speaking of OM, check out the website for some great Halloween goodies!
I like Greg Rucka’s Gotham Central series, and given the context, it makes sense that he’d kick-off the new Detective Comics, featuring a lesbian Batwoman. Read all about the Elegy Deluxe Edition GN at OneMetal. Here’s a snippet:
Another masked redhead swings into Gotham’s troubled heart, declaring war against its criminal infestation. A mighty symbol emblazoned on her costume, the new Batwoman fills the city’s streets with more than nervous electricity: She sparks a little controversy, as well.
Greg Rucka has handled lesbian issues before, particularly with DC’s own series Gotham Central, and now he’s back steering the army brat Kate Kane through tumultuous relationships and putting her in the thick of Gotham’s miscreant welcome brigade. Kane, military cadet turned superhero, faces the city’s second most famous Lewis Carroll nut, the cult leader “Alice” whose religious ties nearly cost Kane her life once before. The lavishly dressed villain converses purely in rhyme, and the High Madame oversees the thirteen covens with merciless, sadistic attention. Kane’s vengeful strike against Alice’s latest homestead attracts the interference of the cult’s supernatural sect, shape-shifters known as the True Believers. When the fight escalates, taking to the skies, Kane learns a secret that disrupts her moral compass and awakens unhappy family memories.
What do you think of Kate Kane?
You can tell by the snazzy new publisher-oriented banners that you’ll be seeing in future comic book reviews on the Girls Entertainment Network (just click the cover above to see what I mean) that I’ve been way too dedicated to graphics work lately. You’d think after I took on the design of this blog that I would allow myself a nice vacation from Paint Shop Pro 9, but psych! You were wrong. Plus, I’ve been working my ass off creating a shitload of graphics for a special July feature that will make all of this seem like child’s play. [Insert maniacal, world-domination laugher here]
Anyway, in the meantime you can catch up with the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense by checking out my review of B.P.R.D.: The Warning. This comic just abuses amphibians in so many wrong ways … it’s great.
Dark Horse, along with a gazillion other creators and publishers (or at least it feels like a gazillion), have sent over plenty of review copies to keep me busy, so stay tuned. I’ll probably tackle Top Cow’s premiere of Berserker—yes, created by that guy on Heroes who formerly played Jess on Gilmore Girls (he’s all grown up now)—sometime tomorrow. Actually, I have so many mixed feelings for that show that I’m regretting even bringing it up now.
The expressions in the picture below nicely sum up how I feel … ironically.
Ventimiglia: The last name that sounds like something you should dissect immediately.
