Chin Music #1
(Image – writer: Steve Niles; art: Tony Harris)
If you want me to get on board with any media – be it a movie, a book or a comic – give it a noir feel, 1930s clothing and weapons and a whole bunch of gangsters. Chin Music has all of that. Except, well, the comic doesn’t really tell us what it’s about, lacks basic transitioning between scenes and relies heavily on its opacity. (more…)
The Black Beetle first started popping up on Pulp Sunday, a blog created by Francesco Francavilla that is dedicated to pulp and noir. The character appeared in a series of mock movie posters and lobby cards, paying homage to the kind of pulp/noir that comic readers really only got to see in Lobster Johnson and Incognito. Today, Dark Horse Comics is giving the costumed crime fighter a series of his own in The Black Beetle: No Way Out #1. (more…)
The zombie apocalypse is almost upon us – and it’s about time.
With Sunday’s premiere of The Walking Dead on AMC – appropriately on Halloween night – the hordes of the undead are finally shuffling to their rightful place at the top of the horror food chain. (more…)
