Author: Geoffrey Luu

We’re just days out from the premiere of Amazon’s Paper Girls, the streaming platform’s newest upcoming miniseries. For anyone unfamiliar with the property, or for prospective viewers who have read the comic and want to know what to expect going into the show, here’s the spoiler-free background and basics, which will (hopefully) give you everything you need. So, what is Paper Girls? Paper Girls is a sci-fi adventure series, adapted from the Image Comics series by writer Brian K. Vaughan, known for his work on Y: The Last Man and Saga, and Eisner Award-winning artist Cliff Chiang, who collaborated with…

Comic Review: The Immortal Hulk #50 Marvel Comics Writer: Al Ewing Artist: Joe Bennett The pinnacle of Hulk runs ends on its highest possible note after three years as Al Ewing concludes The Immortal Hulk. The Immortal Hulk #50, the series’ final issue, wraps up many of the series’ major dangling plot threads by bringing the Savage Hulk and a cosmically powered Joe Fixit into their final confrontation with the One Below All, currently controlling the hell-bound body of The Leader. I’m sad to see this series come to an end after three years, and as much as I would…

Comic Review: The Amazing Spider-Man #74 Marvel Comics Writer: Nick Spencer with Christos Gage Artists: Marcelo Ferreira, Mark Bagley, Zé Carlos, Dio Neves, Carlos Gómez, Ivan Fiorelli, Humberto Ramos Nick Spencer’s three-year run on Amazing Spider-Man ends mostly satisfactorily as the Kindred story arc finally reaches its explosive conclusion. Following the major revelations of ASM #73, in which Nick Spencer retconned my least favorite piece of fiction ever created, ASM #74 attempts to wrap up the lingering questions and story threads surrounding the villain(s) Kindred. Considering the sheer number of moving parts and characters featured throughout the arc –the Osborns,…

Comic Review: Batman ‘89 #2 DC Comics Writer: Sam Hamm Artists: Joe Quinones (artist); Leonardo Ito (colorist); Clayton Cowles (letterer) Batman ‘89 takes a dramatic turn in its second issue as Sam Hamm shifts the series’ focus to the consequences of Batman’s actions and Harvey Dent’s fight against class inequality.  Picking up immediately from the end of the previous issue, Batman’s excursion into Burnside and confrontation with the Gotham police end in disaster as stray gunfire results in the death of an innocent bystander. While this isn’t the inexperienced younger Batman of comics arcs like Year One or Zero…

DC Comics Writer: Grant Morrison Artists: Mikel Janín, Fico Ossio, Evan Cagle, Travel Foreman (Artists) Colorists: Jordie Bellaire, Sebastian Cheng, Dave Stewart, Alex Sinclair (Colorists) A slow but steady build up continues as the Authority starts to takes shape in Grant Morrison’s Superman and the Authority #2. Picking up immediately from the end of issue 1, Superman and the Authority #2 begins with Superman and the recently recruited Manchester Black taking their first steps toward assembling their new team. In sharp contrast to issue 1, which took a linear approach to its story, this issue’s structure takes the form…

DC Comics Writer: Sam Hamm Artists: Joe Quinones & Leonardo Ito Letters: Clayton Cowles Winged Freak Terrorizes! DC’s Batman ‘89 #1 re-introduces readers to the world of the classic Tim Burton Batman films nearly 30 years after Batman Returns. This six-part miniseries promises the return of Burton’s depictions of several classic characters as well as follow-ups and new takes on other characters and story beats not seen in that universe, and this debut issue makes great efforts to deliver. Writer Sam Hamm, who wrote the story and screenplay for the 1989 film, returns to pen this new series. As…

Comic Review: Superman and the Authority #1 DC Comics Writer: Grant Morrison Artists: Mikel Janín (artist); Jordie Bellaire (colorist); Steve Wands (letterer) All-Star no more! Grant Morrison takes the Man of Steel in a bolder, greyer direction with Superman and the Authority #1. This debut issue of the 4-part mini-series sees Superman take steps to form a new rendition of the superhero team The Authority, which first appeared in 1999 under DC’s Wildstorm imprint.  Morrison and their work on Superman require no introduction, as they wrote what is arguably the best-ever Superman story in All-Star Superman (2005-2008). With Superman and…

Spider-Man: The Spider’s Shadow #1 Marvel Comics Writer: Chip Zdarsky Artists: Pasqual Ferry (Artist), Matt Hollingsworth (Color Artist), VC’s Joe Caramagna (Letterer) The Bombastic Bag-Man is dead. I jest, but in a roundabout way, that’s the premise of The Spider’s Shadow. Chip Zdarsky pens this dark new four-part What If miniseries from Marvel Comics which he calls “a play on a familiar What If story,” in which Peter Parker chooses not to give up the Venom symbiote.   Set during the original Alien Costume Saga of the 1980s, Spider’s Shadow wastes no time setting the stage for a…

The Amazing Spider-Man: Sins Rising Prelude (2020) #1 Marvel Comics Writer: Nick Spencer Artists: Guillermo Sanna, Jordie Bellaire & VC’s Joe Caramagna A deadly Spider-Man villain returns from the grave in the Sins Rising Prelude, proving again that comics’ death never lasts forever. This one-shot follows up on the original Sin-Eater arcs of the 1980s in Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man and leads into the upcoming Sins Rising story arc in the main Amazing Spider-Man series. Writer Nick Spencer expands on the origin of Stan Carter, killer of one of Spider-Man’s closest allies, Captain Jean DeWolff. The result is a nightmarish…

Captain America: Marvels Snapshots (2020) #1 Marvel Comics Writer: Mark Russell Artists: Ramón Pérez, Rico Renzi & Joe Sabino The latest installment of Marvel’s “Snapshots” anthology presents a story about regular people struggling in the wake of Earth’s mightiest heroes. Writer Mark Russell applies the Kurt Busiek/Marvels spin on the Madbomb arc of the 1970s’ Captain America comics, allowing us to view its events through the eyes of an everyman from an angle that, like its protagonist, is sometimes overlooked. There is an important aspect of this one-shot that should be addressed before anything else: for a story titled Marvels…