The Shadow Hero Volume One brings dignity to a forgotten archetype

At first glance, The Shadow Hero a.k.a The Green Turtle, isn’t your typical hero. He’s a vestige of an ignorant generation, one whose idea of a hero, never went beyond the blonde hair and blue eyes. The story of how this shopkeepers son became China Towns “Dark Knight” in the 1940’s, isn’t the amazing part

Jordan Mechner’s Templar turns fact and fiction into Medieval Awesomeness

Writer Jordan Mechner (Prince of Persia, Solomon’s Thieves) and artists/husband and wife team Leuyen Pham and Alex Puvilland, have given the “big heist” genre a much needed facelift with Templar. This graphic, which was originally going to be a series of books starting off with “Solomon’s Thieves”, was released as a full graphic novel on

The prequel to the film, 300: Marathon – by Boaz Yakin and Joe Infurnari

Marathon is the most classical of chase sequences.  A perfect precursor to the Frank Miller film, 300, in both tone and realism, Boaz Yakin and Joe Infurnari’s graphic novel is a page turning account of the 240 kilometer, 2 day run of the soldier, Pheidippides, and the ensuing Battle of Marathon that is considered to be a pivotal moment in the preservation

TUNE book 1: Vanishing Point by Derek Kirk Kim delivers science fiction, fun and honesty unlike anything I’ve ever read

First Second Publishing has gone and done it again. This time they’ve teamed up with graphic novelist and artist Derek Kirk Kim (Fables, 1001 Nights Of Snowfall) for this funny, yet sometimes dark, inter-deminsional coming of age story. TUNE is a sci-fi slice-of-life romantic comedy adventure of interdimensional proportions. When art school drop-out Andy Go

YOU DON”T MESS WITH THE BROXO!!

That’s right…I said it…you don’t. This little Blue Lagoon/Clan Of The Cave Bear coming of age graphic novel, is one beautifully drawn and well written story. I’m always a sucker for good art and Broxo didn’t disappoint. The two leads, Broxo and Zora were visually stunning! Zack Giallongo, without wasting precious dialogue, created a ton