I like to buy first-issue comics for review when I can, and when I saw the phantasmagoric Japanese art of Sandman: the Dream Hunters, I latched onto it like a small grubby child clutching a candy bar melting in the August sun. Read more »

Some comics you have to dig through to see if they’re good. No need with Comic Book Comics: Our Artists At War! The cover features a wild image of a giant flaming comic book smashing a military blimp and crushing tanks as desperate gunners look up and at the reader. Read more »

My acquaintance Mr. Greggy has a great respect for all things steampunk.  With this in mind, I bought Warren Ellis‘s Aetheric Mechanics.  Featuring Ellis’s name, the alluring title, and a flying battleship Winsor McCay would have been proud of,  the cover led me to think Aetheric Mechanics would be a fine comic treatise on steampunk. Read more »

After seeing Jacob’s Ladder, playing Silent Hill, and reading the Lucifer comic series, I’ve become a bit spoiled.  If a story doesn’t yield solid writing before and after the BOO! moments, I look for something better.  It’s been a while since these creepy cultural cornerstones were built, and I’ve been hard pressed to find new releases as good. Read more »

E3 is now behind us and we are so sad we weren’t able to cover it. However that mean means comic-con is now here and in VillainTech’s home city. Therefore we will be there giving you constant updates. We will be covering this event with one large post each day and constantly providing updates and photos as we go. We hope you enjoy because this will be a 4 days of overwhelming visual stimuli. Five days if we manage to include a preview night post.