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Posted on 12.07.03 by Doc @ 5:07 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Story: Written by William O'Neill Price: $2.99 My Verdict: Fans of either Escape film should own it. Issue #1 of the Snake Plissken Chronicles joins our one-eyed hero "early the next day" (presumably following one of the films, and given his locale (outside Atlantic City), I'm assuming after the first film). As is perhaps typical for everybody's favorite anti-hero, he can't manage a brief whiz on the side of the road without attracting the attention of some knife-wielding freak. After terrifying his would-be assailant, Snake proceeds on his way, only to be accosted by a gang of bike-riding thugs who lay claim to the freeway outside Atlantic City. Categorized as: Comics and Reviews
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Posted on 12.07.03 by Dindrane @ 5:00 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.   Story: Written by Neil Gaiman Contents: All 3 issues of the limited series, plus Death Talks About Life My advice: Own it. You there! Yes, you... the one hiding behind the guy in the red shirt. You don't know who Death and the Endless are? Sigh. Okay, here's the deal: Gaiman created the Endless for his series, The Sandman. Basically, these siblings are all personifications of universal forces: there's Destiny, Desire, Dream, Death, Delirium, Destruction, and Despair. Death, with whom we are interested here, is a young, beautiful, perky little goth-girl with whom you'd really like to hang out. Once every hundred years, Death walks as a human among us, to remember what it's like to be alive. Categorized as: Comics and Reviews
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Posted on 12.07.03 by Dindrane @ 3:47 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Story: Story and Art by Rumiko Takahashi Published by Viz Communications My Verdict: Buy it. Fans of Takahashi know that she is one of the rare manga artists who doesn't stick to any one genre in her fables; she'll combine the best of adventure, horror, humour, and even romance with a touch of magic or the occult. Inu-Yasha, her current title, is no different. The story takes place, for the most part, in feudal Japan, the Warring States period of the Muromachi era, where a half-breed dog-demon, Inu-Yasha himself, has just been betrayed. He has been searching for the Shikon Jewel, a mystical jewel that will grant him the power to become either fully demon or fully human at last. His beloved, a Shinto priestess named Kikyo, has been convinced that he is evil, having given way to his demon side. She fires a magical arrow into him, pinning him to a tree, and Kikyo, killed in the encounter, is cremated with the Jewel. Fade to the modern era, where fifteen-year-old Kagome, a normal Japanese girl, just might be Kikyo's reincarnation. Falling through a time portal in her family shrine, Kagome is transported to the feudal era just in time to free Inu-Yasha. Categorized as: Comics and Reviews
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Posted on 12.07.03 by Widge @ 2:09 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Story: Written by Warren Ellis Notes: Contains issues 37-42 of the series and a introduction by director Darren Aronofsky Published by Vertigo/DC Comics. Spider's lost his gig at The Word, forced out by the sinister forces that are amassing against him. However, you can't keep a good journalist down--at least not one this popular. So Spider seeks out a new venue for his rantings: The Hole, a guerilla news source that can't be stopped because it can't be tracked down. He's got other problems as well: his body may give out before he can finish what he started. Having already read the final issue of this series, it was a grateful relief to go back and check out Spider's adventures more than two years away from the closing I just left. It's also refreshing to note that my previous comments about this series still ring true: it didn't wander off and get lost somewhere (100 Bullets) or completely lose its balls (Preacher). It rocked till the end. And I discovered that probably some of my favorite Transmet stories are included in this trade. "Business," a heart-breaking and unflinching look at child prostitution; "There is a Reason," regarding the mentally ill who find themselves homeless; and of course, the titular story in which Spider urges his readers to remember the cities as they are, the constantly in-flux living filthy organisms that they are. Categorized as: Comics and Reviews
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Posted on 12.07.03 by Everest @ 1:21 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Story: Written by Bill Willingham Published by DC/Vertigo. My verdict: Definitely. Own it. The Premise: Fairy Tales are real. The characters in them are real. They live forever--or at least until they're forgotten. Strangely enough, they live in New York, in their own little corner of the city. They've been there for a couple hundred years, though unbeknownst to the regular population of the city (a la Highlander). Snow White effectively runs Fabletown, Bigby Wolf is the local law enforcement, Jack (of Beanstalk fame) is an errand runner and general trouble-maker. All your other favorites are there too: Prince Charming (along with all his ex-wives--Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, etc.), Little Boy Blue, the Lilliputians, Goldilocks, all Three Blind Mice, etc.--trust me; they're all there. Categorized as: Comics and Reviews
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