"...part soap opera, part cosmic adventure, part horror story, and part existential crisis." Today on the program we discuss Black Hammer: Secret Origins the introductory collection of the ongoing series from Dark Horse that is some of the best comics being produced today. Beautifully written by Jeff Lemire and drawn magnificently by Dean Ormston this
Alien is a 1979 sci-fi horror film directed by Ridley Scott. It is – on the surface – a basic, by-the-numbers, base-under-siege, monster movie - with one major exception – the HR Giger-designed double-mouthed, psychosexual, phallic nightmare that would eventually be called the Xenomorph. The Xenomorph epitomized the idea of “alien.” It was unlike
"The narration is formed not simply as a recounting of events but as a kind of confession and at times almost as a form of prayer." Today on the program we discuss the 1993 on-shot Aliens: Salvation by Dave Gibbons with art by Mike Mignola. In the long, long history of the Alien franchise, Salvation is
Hello and welcome to the Collected Edition – a comic book podcast where we explore celebrated story-arcs from comics and creators throughout the entirety of history. Today on the program we are discussing Lone Wolf & Cub: The Assassin's Road, the Dark Horse collected edition of the classic Manga by legendary creators Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima. It
On this episode we discuss Terminal City - the acclaimed Eisner winning comic written by Dean Motter and illustrated by Michael Lark. Originally published by Vertigo in 1996/1997 in two limited runs or 9 and 5 issues respectively. We however are reading from the Dark Horse re-release The Compleat Terminal City published in 2012. We are a
