comic connoisseur
This volume of Southern Bastards is stained with blood, sweat, and tears
September 8, 2015In the previous volume of Southern Bastards, readers were introduced to Euless Boss, a vile football coach with a stranglehold on a rural southern wasteland known as Craw County. In the latest edition of this deep fried crime anthology, we witness the origin of the southern villain and how he came to be the most fearsome bastard of his whole town. Back in his youth, Euless Boss was a small boy with a dream of being a linebacker for his school’s football team, the Running Rebs. He was a hopeful youth with dreams of dominating the gridiron and gaining the…
Continue reading
Comic Connoisseur: Nailbiter will nourish you with fear and intrigue
August 4, 2015Horror is the hardest genre to sucessfully create. The hallmark of any enjoyable horror romp rests in its characters, its story, and of course, the amount of fear it can instill in its audience. Striking the right balance between all…
Continue reading
Comic Connoisseur: Moose perfectly encapsulates the cruelty of bullying
July 27, 2015High school is typically depicted through a superficial lens in books, television, and film. What is often showcased is a glammed up and hyperbolized take on a tumultuous half decade in our lives. However, to their credit, these mediums typically…
Continue reading
Comic Connoisseur: Copperhead is the best sci-fi Western in stands
July 20, 2015Since the resurgence of the superhero genre, Westerns have taken a back seat in the medium of comics. Audiences are more likely to see capes and colorful spandex uniforms then they are to see six-shooters and cowboy hats these days.…
Continue reading
Comic Connoisseur: What We Need to Know is an endearing character study
July 13, 2015Flipping through What We Need To Know, a reader might come to the conclusion that this is an unfinished work — and to a certain degree, they wouldn’t be wrong. The art is only pencilled; it lacks the inks and…
Continue reading
Comic Connoisseur: A love note to Sex Criminals
July 6, 2015Dear Sex Criminals, I have thought about you very often these last couple months and I have come to one conclusion: I think I am in love with you. Nothing else makes me feel quite the same as you do.…
Continue reading
Comic Connoisseur: Snyder and Murphy terrify readers with The Wake
June 29, 2015The Wake is a sci-fi story which takes place over the course of two generations. In its first half, we are introduced to a team of individuals tasked with learning the origin of a newly discovered and vicious underwater organism.…
Continue reading
Comic Connoisseur: The Disappearance of Charley Butters is a captivating page turner
June 22, 2015The Disappearance of Charley Butters is not a tale with an abundance of twists and turns. It is a very straightforward mystery — one readers have seen before. It is not a reinvention of the genre or a trailblazing new…
Continue reading
Comic Connoisseur: Quantum and Woody cap series with side-splitting hijinks
June 15, 2015Quantum and Woody are the worst crime fighters ever created. There is no duo in comics today that can match the hijinks of these two mismatched protectors. Joined by a supporting cast that includes a sexy clone named Sixty-Nine and…
Continue reading
Comic Connoisseur: Birthright re-energizes cliché-ridden fantasy genre
June 8, 2015At first glance, Birthright seems like a hodgepodge of ideas audiences have seen a hundred times over. It has the usual smattering of concepts readers have come to expect from the fantasy genre. The story is as follows: a young…
Continue reading
