Comic Book Reviews
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Fantasy Island: Monkey Meat, Summer Batch Review
Juni Ba's Monkey Meat: Summer Batch #1 Written, Illustrated and Designed by Juni Ba (Image Comics, 2025) Synopsis The anthology is back for five new issues, from the creator of The Boy Wonder! Going on vacation? How about a hellish African fantasy island run by a...
Face Off: Bronze Faces Issue 1 Review
Bronze Faces #1 Written Shobo and Shof Coker, Illustrated by Alexandre Tefenkgi (Boom Studios, February 2025) Synopsis Soho, London. Childhood friends Timi, Sango, and Gbonka reunite on the eve of the British Museum's historic purchase of the works of Timi's father,...
The Cookout: Sam Wilson, Captain America 1 Critique
Sam Wilson: Captain America 1 Written by Greg Pak and Evan Narcisse, Art by Eder Messias w/ Valentine De Landro (Marvel, January 2025) Synopsis When Captain America attends a birthday party for Isaiah Bradley, he catches wind of a new tech venture that sounds too...
Battle Scars: Hotshot Issue 12 Critique
Hotshot: Unforgiven Part 3, Issue 12 Written and illustrated by Michael Watson, Colored by Veronica Smith, Inked by Laurie Foster, Edited by Danny Cooper, Creative consult by Víctor Dandridge. Synopsis Hotshot confronts his trauma in a gut-wrenching, emotionally...
So Fresh and So Clean: Point of Authority 3 Critique
Point of Authority: Family Ties #3 Written by Victor Dandridge, Illustrated by Adam Fields, Colored by Kevin Anthony De Castro (Vantage Inhouse Publishing, 2022) Synopsis Something dark has awakened in Jameson Jackson. Now the world and his family are preparing for...
Fear of a Black Comic: Space Negro Issue 1 Critique
Space Negro: The Last Negro Written and drawn by Jared Sams, Colors by Daniel Morales, Mohammed Agbadi Synopsis A million years in the future and a brutha still can't catch a break! With issue #01 of Space Negro Supernova Watkins, finds himself in a situation that...
Point Break: Point of Authority #2 Critique
Point of Authority: Family Ties #2 Written by Victor Dandridge, Illustrated by Adam Fields, Colored by Kevin Anthony De Castro (Vantage Inhouse Publishing, 2022) Synopsis Something dark has awakened in Jameson Jackson. Now the world and his family are preparing for...
Sexy Layer Cake: Diary of the Stray Dogs Critique
Diary of the Stray Dogs:The Wounded Written by Nigel Lynch, Illustrated by Juan Carlos Francisco, Colored by Edward "King" Bola, (Beyond Publishing Caribbean, 2022) Synopsis Shani Belcourt recounts the events that start her down a dark path, as she seeks retribution....
Outside the Long Box: Birth of a Nation
Every now and then a body of work comes along and gives you all the feels and laughs.