The last 3 issues of “Alex + Ada” finally delivered the action and intensity I’ve been waiting for for more than a year. This is a...
“The Fiction” is a mini-series about a group of friends that discover a collection of books that when read transport the reader to a fantasy world....
I gave “Chrononauts” a hard time when the first issue came out calling it “Time Bros” and drawing attention to the flat characters and groan-worthy dialogue....
“Material” #1 is ambitious, it is not a book with a message, it IS a message. In this first issue alone Ales Kot explores a great...
“Arcadia” #2 quickly expands upon the already at critical mass premise of the first issue by introducing a heaping plate of new concepts, conflicts, and characters...
In the days leading up to a “Deep Impact” style apocalypse 75% of the population has been evacuated from earth through space elevators. The rest have...
“Mayday” #2 does not for one second let us forget its time and place. Curt Pires’ books are very much a product of the present. They...
First published as a weekly series on thrillbent.com, “Insufferable” asks the question “What if Batman and Robin had a really bad breakup?” It’s an intriguing setup,...
“Valhalla Mad” is a comedy about three Norse Gods who descend on earth for a ritual they call “The Gluttonalia”, which is basically an excuse to...
Curt Pires is on a meteoric rise this past year with critical hits “POP” and “Mayday”, two books that hold a scathing mirror up to culture...
“The Mantle” #1 is a self-aware superhero book with an uncommon twist: Mantles die a lot. The Mantle is hunted by The Plague, for reasons yet...
If you read the solicits for you’ll have seen “Injection” #1 described as sci/fi-horror-crime-techno thriller about 5 people that poisoned the world and now have to...
Last week’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. promised war and war is what we got in this two-hour season finale. There were tons of casualties, thankfully (or...
“Arcadia” #1 is dense. Not overwhelmingly dense or dense in an intellectually superior kind of way, but there is a lot of world building happening in...
“Descender” #3 gives me great visceral pleasure. Understanding where that feeling comes from leads us to a genuinely remarkable discovery surrounding the potential of postmodern narratives and...
“Burning Fields” #4 makes it very clear that the series is distinctly a supernatural horror. It isn’t a completely accurate category; nothing in this post-modern landscape...
The best compliment the season finale of Marvel’s Daredevil earns is that it’s satisfying. Though we will see Matt again in “The Defenders”, and possibly even...
This week Cal is heavily featured as he takes Skye on a tour of the “old haunts” where he would have liked to have raised her....
“The Fly: Outbreak” #2 takes us through the first 17 days of quarantine after everyone is exposed to the “disease” during Bartok’s escape. Martin sits in...
“Intersect” #6 begins with the most recognizable image and coherent thought in the entire series as an incredible amount of blood runs out from under a...
Once again I have to talk about the narrative structure of a Marvel’s Daredevil episode because I am consistently impressed and inspired by the non-traditional form each...
“Melinda” finally gives us the answer to why Agent Mae is called the Cavalry and its every bit as fucked up as we’ve been led to...
The (exceptionally late) beginning of act two delivers a major clue as to why starlet Valeria Sommers was knocked off in the form of retired Victory...
Fisk makes a major move in this episode of Marvel’s Daredevil and, although I’ve only reviewed as far as I’ve seen, It seems that the pace of...
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