Written by Brian Michael Bendis Art by Sara Pichelli Colours by Marte Gracia Letters by CV’s Corv Petit Cover by Stuart Immonen, Wade von Grawbadger and Marte Gracia Purchase your copy @ Comixology now! Recently I’ve complained that ‘All-New X-Men’ has lingered too long in the fallout from ‘Battle of the Atom’ and become a little stagnant but thankfully this issue steps up to the mark visually whilst almost managing to push the story forwards for the first time in several issues. The quality of this book has never faltered, its just the nature of the story that has held it back from…
Author: Neil Vagg
Neil Vagg
Neil is the Editor-in-Chief at GYCO. He has a BA in Film & TV and an MA in Scriptwriting; he currently works 9-5 in an office and 5-9 as a reviewer. He has been reading comics for as long as he can remember and is never far away from any book which has the word Bat in the title.
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Script by Rhianna Pratchett & Gail Simone Pencils by Derlis Santacruz Inks by Andy Owens Colours by Michael Atiyeh Letters by Michael Heisler Cover by Stephanie Hans Purchase your copy @ TFAW now! Having finally tied up lose ends on the island of Yamatai Lara Croft is feeling sentimental this month and paying tribute to friends lost during all her recent trouble. But of course this is ‘Tomb Raider’ so where Lara goes trouble is not far behind culminating in a trip to the Ukraine. Most of this issue is set on the hillside of Snowdonia in Wales, not looking…
Written by Jason Latour Art by Robbi Rodriguez Colours by Rico Renzi Letters & production by VC’s Clayton Cowles Purchase your copy @ Forbidden Planet now! Last week the first issues of ‘Edge of the Spider-verse’ (reviewed here!) bought us a story featuring an already established version of Spider-Man from various forms of media and brought him in to the continuity of the current ‘Superior Spider-Man’ comics. This week the build up to Novembers ‘Spider-verse’ story beings us a twist on a famous character from Spidey history… Gwen Stacy. Modern fans of the hero might be less familiar with the character…
Script by Christos Gage Pencils by Karl Moline, Cliff Richards Inks by Andy Owens Colours by Dan Jackson Letters by Richard Starkings & Jimmy Betancourt Variant cover by Rebekah Isaacs & Dan Jackson Purchase your copy @ TFAW now! This month ‘BtVS’ takes some time to reflect on times past by taking our characters back to a time when life was, almost, simpler. Moving on from the recent Dracula theme arc (reviewed in issues #4 and #5) the series is dialling back on the big-scale drama and dialling up the emotional content. Season 10 continues to prove that it’s digging back…
After a cracking episode last week with ‘Listen’ (reviewed here!) this week ‘Doctor Who’ ventures off in to space for a distinctly Earthly tale on a far away planet at the Bank of Karabraxos. Guest starring Keeley Hawes, Jonathan Bailey and Pippa Bennett-Warner the episode is another big change in content from the previous episode and is our first truly out there space mission for the new Doctor. Capaldi has now had an adventure set in Earths past (‘Deep Breath’), a adventure featuring Daleks (‘Into the Dalek’), an adventure co-starring a literary hero (‘Robot of Sherwood’) and a chilling scary tale (‘Listen’) so…
Written by David Hine & Fabrice Sapolsky Art and Cover by Richard Isanove Letters by VC’s Clayton Cowles Variant cover by Greg Land, Jay Leisten & Morry Hollowell Purchase your copy @ Comixology now! Edging closer towards the November ‘Spider-Verse’ onslaught Marvel is continuing to use companion books to setup the major players in the story, this week brought us ‘Edge of Spider-Verse’ #1 which focuses on the backstory of Spider-Man Noir. Like many my first introduction to Noir was via the ‘Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions’ video game which had a similar dimension hopping story to that which is beginning to…
Written by Tom King Plot by Tom King & Tim Seeley Art by Stephen Mooney Colours by Jeromy Cox Letters by Carlos M. Mangual Cover by Andrew Robinson Purchase your copy @ Comixology now! After only two months to setup his new circumstances Dick Grayson is thrust five years in to the future so that we can witness the potential end of his New 52 story. Unlike other issues in the special ‘Futures End’ month this story starts at the end and works its way backwards to show a young Dick at the circus with his family… yes this issue…
This week ‘Doctor Who’ went back into creepy territory with its fourth episode ‘Listen’ and it did it in great style. This is by far the high point of the season so far with Capaldi brining so much uniqueness to the role that by the end we were nearly saying ‘Matt who? David what?!’. The story of ‘Listen’ became a little convoluted at times: were we learning about Danny Pink? Was it a tale of the Doctor? Was it Clara’s story? But actually it was a little bit of all of them. Moffat has crafted a brilliant, mature story which…
Plot by Dan Slott Script by Christos Gage Pencils by Giuseppe Camuncoli Inks by John Dell Colour by Antonio Fabela Purchase your copy @ Comixology now! I’ve been out of action on ‘Spider-Man’ comics for a while, pretty much since Otto Octavius took over the body of Peter Parker and allowed Peter to die inside his own failing body. It wasn’t the actual story or the removal of Peter Parker from the continuity, it was more that I was feeding off my own excitement around ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ movies and wanted to read some great Peter Parker stories and that…
Story by Scott Snyder & James Tynion IV Script by Ray Fawkes Consulting Writers: John Layman & Tim Seeley Art by Andy Clarke Cover by Alex Garner Colours by Blond Purchase your copy @ Comixology now! It’s time to take a short break from the dungeons of Arkham and the lights of Tokyo to spend some time catching up with the Bats: Man, Girl and Woman plus Red Hood, Lieutenant Bard and former-Commissioner Gordon in issue #18 of ‘Batman Eternal’. Taking over the reigns of cover artist this week is Alex Garner who does a great job of contrasting the two-tone…