Articles tagged with: Comic Book

A while ago I reviewed Crossed, as a disturbing non-zombies-but-frenzied-infected comic that a friend let me read.

I haven't read the second volume but, as the first, Crossed 3 is a stand-alone story, using the same setting of an apocalyptic near future where an infection enrages people to terrible limits, converting them into frenzied assasins, cannibals and even worse...

The main story is about a man with a broken leg found by a small team of 4 survivors, who carry him in search of a safeplace, "The Mission".

This comic book is directly gross. Zoophilia, raping, crude sex and extremely gory violence happen a lot. Be warned because it is really mature and crude (well, as the first one).

Not recommended for everybody. Curious to read, because the stories are not bad, but really disturbing.

Posted on 2012-10-23

La Guerra Interminable is a French comic (I had it in spanish) based on a book of Joe Hadelman, about a future where humans know how to travel through space and time.

A future where the relativity theory is proved, so humans can travel really huge distances and time compresses for them (just a few months pass) while in the rest of the universe years pass by. So combats are done taking not only the present but also the future in mind.

And a future where humans encounter other race (the Taurians) and start an endless war, a forever war in space & time.

 

A really curious comic, hard and cruel sometimes but also with nice thinking about how would be a war having time jumps and spanning centuries of fighting. Recommended if you like sci-fi themes.

Posted on 2012-10-06

What if Superman landed as a child in Russia instead of America? Raised as a communist, friend of Stalin...

This is the premise of Superman - Red Son, a masterpiece by Mark Millar. An alternate world where Communism takes over most of the world except the United States, who finance Lex Luthor (the most clever person in Earth and husband of Lois Lane) so that he can discover a way to kill Superman.

A different Batman (soviet), Wonder Woman and other surprises I won't spoil make this comic a really incredible work. Sometimes direct and cruel, sometimes humorous, but one of the best comics I've read lately.

Absolutely recommended, even if Superman is not your favourite superhero.

Posted on 2012-09-16

Broken City is a a vision of a pessimistic Batman. A Batman that thinks God has no mercy. A Batman that "can't live without Gotham but woudn't cry for it".

A Batman that tries to catch a killer and screws things up. A lot.

A Batman haunted by the killing of his parents when he was young, up to the point that it is the only one the caped crusader fears: dreaming.

 

Nice drawings, interesting plot, lots of bad guys... Highly recommended if you like this superhero.

Posted on 2012-08-06

Exterminatus is another WH40k comic, a followup of Damnation Crusade, this time telling some events from the point of view of an Inquisitor, Alastor.

The inquisitor arrives to the planet where the Chaos titans were found to investigate, and will find both terrible chaos forces and unexpected allies while trying to find why the titans weren't found earlier.

The plot is not bad but a bit predictable (typical in the WH40k chaos settings), and the drawings are not bad but once again as each original issue has different artists the quality varies a lot, sometimes being annoying the difference of drawing humans.

Only correct in general, another one for a discount buy only.

Posted on 2012-05-27