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

Derek Kirk Kim’s TUNE BOOK 2 : Still Life is hilarious claustrophobia

Derek Kirk Kim seems to have come into his own on this second installment of his TUNE series. Although, more first person, the lead character Andy Go’s, inner monologues and conversations with Dash (the zoo recruiter turned art aficionado) is well worth the read. Maybe it’s because I am morbid or maybe it’s because I

MITNG reviews book five of George O’ Conner’s OLYMPIANS series, POSEIDON:Earth Shaker

Gods can be complicated. I know…I’ve had a love/hate relationship with one going on 39 years now and I seem to be only scratching the surface of who it is. Unfortunately, no one has done with the Bible what illustrator/writer George O’ Conner has done and made a graphic novel about Greek Gods and how

First Second brings us Curses! Foiled Again

Aliera Carstairs, full-time high-schooler and newly appointed Defender of Faerie, returns to kick Unseelie butt in Curses! Foiled Again. Written by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Mike Cavallaro, this second installment to First Second Publishing’s Foiled series will be made available on January 8th. For those unfamiliar with the story thus far, here’s a recap: