Comic Review: Carnage (2016) #1-16 by Gerry Conway

By Miller C. Lashbrook This series was such a pleasant surprise. I have never been a big Venom or Carnage fan when they are not in a Spider-Man story. However, I wanted to read this series because I know it set up some things in Absolute Carnage. This series is a thrilling combination of PredatorContinue reading “Comic Review: Carnage (2016) #1-16 by Gerry Conway”

Comic Review: Black Panther: World of Wakanda (2017)

By Miller C. Lashbrook Black Panther: World of Wakanda is the perfect companion piece to Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther (2016) storyline, “A Nation Under Our Feet” (Read my review of it here). Coates’ Black Panther book at the end of the day is T’Challa’s story; so, even though his book features many side characters, thereContinue reading “Comic Review: Black Panther: World of Wakanda (2017)”

Comic Review: Black Panther (2016) – “A Nation Under Our Feet”

By Miller C. Lashbrook This is modern superhero comics at its finest! Ta-Nehisi Coates brings his experience with real-world politics to Wakanda for a politically, philosophically, and spiritually intriguing story for T’Challa, that at the end of the day is still character-driven. There is a bit of continuity that leads into this run on BlackContinue reading “Comic Review: Black Panther (2016) – “A Nation Under Our Feet””

Comic Review: Spider-Women

By Miller C. Lashbrook As part of my reading of Marvel Comics from the past decade, I read the mini-event Spider-Women by Dennis Hopeless, Jason Latour, and Robbie Thompson, which crosses over the writers’ series, Spider-Woman, Spider-Gwen, and Silk, respectively. This mini-event is consists of an Alpha and Omega issue by all three writers andContinue reading “Comic Review: Spider-Women”

Comic Review: Thor: God of Thunder Issues 1-11

by Miller C. Lashbrook “Oh my gods!” That is my initial reaction to Jason Aaron and Esad Ribic’s work of art that is Thor: God of Thunder. I am sure that many comic book fans and people with humanities degrees would agree that comic books can be art and often are. But, I am sureContinue reading “Comic Review: Thor: God of Thunder Issues 1-11”