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Advance Preview: Saga #1 (Image) by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples

April 10, 2012January 3, 2012 by The Comic Book Critic

Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples team up to create Saga, a new ongoing series for mature readers at Image Comics. The first issue is double-sized with no ads for the regular price of $2.99. Here is an advance preview courtesy of Image Comics!

Y: THE LAST MAN writer BRIAN K. VAUGHAN returns to comics with red-hot artist FIONA STAPLES for an all-new ONGOING SERIES! Star Wars-style action collides with Game of Thrones-esque drama in this original sci-fi/fantasy epic for mature readers, as new parents Marko and Alana risk everything to raise their child amidst a never-ending galactic war. The adventure begins in a spectacular DOUBLE-SIZED FIRST ISSUE, with forty-four pages of story with no ads for the regular price of just $2.99!

Sexy Female Costumes Based on Male Superheroes

January 26, 2020January 1, 2012 by The Comic Book Critic

Even though there are hundreds, if not thousands, of sexy costumes for women to wear to Halloween or costume parties, there are always male-to-female conversions of superhero costumes. Sometimes they look decent, but more often than not, they are just a flimsy interpretation of the original.

We at Comic Book Critic looked around for a few examples and found some rather interesting ones. Here’s what we discovered!

Happy New Year to Everyone From Comic Book Critic!

December 31, 2011 by The Comic Book Critic

We at Comic Book Critic wish all of you and your families a happy and prosperous New Year in 2012!

Thank you for your continued support of this young site. We’ll have a few surprises for you in the coming year… including contests and giveaways! Everyone loves free stuff, right?

Stay safe this New Year’s Eve and enjoy the celebrations!

Classic Minimalist Superhero Art by Michael Myers

January 26, 2020December 29, 2011 by The Comic Book Critic

Classic Superhero Posters by Michael Myers!

We’re always looking to find new cool and unusual artistic interpretations of comic book characters to share with you. Today we came across some really cool prints by freelance illustrator and designer from Waterloo, Iowa – Michael Myers of Drawsgood Illustration & Design!

The pieces below were created between 2010 and 2011 for both personal projects and commissions. They are of a minimalist design yet convey the characters clearly and boldly. Great stuff!

What If Pablo Picasso Painted Superheroes?

February 27, 2014December 29, 2011 by The Comic Book Critic

Pablo Picasso Superheroes and Villains!

Many different artists have given us their interpretations of superheroes and supervillains over the years. We’ve seen hundreds of artists work on long established characters such as Superman, Batman, Captain America, and The Joker. But imagine if an artist like Pablo Picasso tried his hand at those characters?

Well, you don’t have to imagine it any longer. Mike Esparza gives us his interpretation of what those characters would look like if the master painter Pablo Picasso had decided to paint them. The attention to the detailed marriage of Picasso’s style and the characters’ likeness and costume is what makes his interpretations so great.

Review: The Activity #1 (Image)

December 29, 2011 by The Comic Book Critic

Writer: Nathan Edmondson
Artist: Mitch Gerads
Letterer: Mitch Gerads
Color assistant: Kyle Latino
Cover: Mitch Gerads

Publisher: Image Comics
Cover Date: December 2011
Cover Price: $3.50

Title: “Fiddler on the Roof”

The Activity follows a group of operatives in an unnamed division of the Intelligence Support Activity of the US Government. These teams focus on more selective, secretive, and high-stakes ops than normal covert ops teams. Given bleeding edge tech, they are the problem solvers and first responders that go in and sometimes even have to clean up the CIA’s mistakes.

The story itself gives us snippets of The Activity’s operations, intelligence gathering, and recruiting actions, but there are large gaps in between. This might sound like it’s a bad story, but it is far from it. The way Nathan Edmondson crafts the story, the reader is given just enough info to follow along without giving too much away. This creates more of a mystery surrounding the events and one which Edmondson can control as he sees fit.

Preview of Mondo #1 (Image) by Ted McKeever

April 10, 2012December 28, 2011 by The Comic Book Critic

Ted McKeever brings Mondo to Image this January in a three issue mini series.

Catfish’s daily grind of "enhancing" poultry comes to a halt when he is accidentally tripped up by a loose chicken, causing him to fall victim to his own process. What proportions of his that were once human are now beyond anything normal. Add villainous corporate and military big wigs, a roller-skating weapon-toting chick named Kitten Kaboodle, a gang of tattooed babies, and there’s still that enormous beach monster…

And what you have is MONDO, in all its raging glory!

Preview of The Manhattan Projects #1 (Image)

April 10, 2012December 27, 2011 by The Comic Book Critic

After finishing their critically acclaimed miniseries The Red Wing for Image Comics, Jonathan Hickman and Nick Pitarra are working together once more on a new series – The Manhattan Projects.

The Dark Knight Rises Trailer Gets Sweded

December 23, 2011 by The Comic Book Critic

It didn’t take long for the guys at bryanharley on Youtube to create a sweded version of the highly anticipated The Dark Knight Rises trailer. Their ultra low budget version is a scene-by-scene recreation of the officially released movie trailer, just like they did back in October with The Avengers trailer.

They do such a wonderful job in recreating the trailers that I look forward to their sweded version as much as I do the originals.

Brian Bolland Cover Gallery

December 22, 2011 by The Comic Book Critic

Brian Bolland Cover Gallery

Brian Bolland has a distinctive style that is easily recognizable. His clean, detailed linework along with his attention to page composition has made him a highly sought after cover artist.

Though most American comic book fans will recognize his beautifully detailed cover to Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore and illustrated by Bolland himself, he was already well versed in doing covers and interiors in the UK and also for DC Comics in the US. He was clearly one of the definitive Judge Dredd artists in 2000 A.D. and illustrated DC’s first 12 issue maxi series, Camelot 3000.

Bolland had several very lengthy runs as the cover artist on a few DC Comics titles including Animal Man, Wonder Woman, The Invisibles, Batman: Gotham Nights, and Jack of Fables. He drew so many consecutive covers of Animal Man, the first 56 issues to be precise, that regardless of who actually drew the interiors, when you would think of Animal Man, Bolland’s artwork would instantly spring to mind.