Book Review: Disney’s Christmas Classics
By Gordon S. Miller |
Considering how beloved Disney characters and Christmas are by children, it was surprising to learn in Alberto Becattini's introductory essay ...
Read More 
Book Review: Star Wars: On the Front Lines by Daniel Wallace
By Chad Derdowski |
The Star Wars universe is defined by conflict. Whether it's the internal struggle of a young Jedi finding his way ...
Read More 
Book Review: Silly Symphonies Volume 3: The Complete Disney Classics 1939-1942
By Steve Geise |
The Silly Symphonies comic strip started as a venue for adaptations of Disney's long-running series of animated shorts, but by ...
Read More 
Book Review: Justice League: The Art of the Film by Abbie Bernstein
By Chad Derdowski |
Let’s get this out of the way right here at the beginning: I haven’t seen Justice League. Nor do I ...
Read More 
Book Review: Walt Disney’s Treasury of Classic Tales, Volume Two
By Gordon S. Miller |
While Disney had previously run newspaper comic strips before it, their Treasury of Classic Tales was a Sunday strip that ...
Read More 
Book Review: Tangled: The Series: Adventure is Calling
By Mat Brewster |
In my family, Tangled is one of the better movies to come out of Disney's classic animation studios in a ...
Read More 
Book Review: Star Trek: New Visions Volume 5 by John Byrne
By Gordon S. Miller |
As stated in my previous reviews of this book series, "John Byrne and IDW Publishing are presenting the lost missions ...
Read More 
Book Review: For Better or For Worse: The Complete Library, Volume One (1979-1982) by Lynn Johnston
By Chad Derdowski |
Since Lynn Johnston's For Better or For Worse launched in 1979, it has been syndicated in over 2,000 newspapers worldwide ...
Read More 
Book Review: Star Trek: The Classic UK Comics, Volume Three (1972-1979)
By Mat Brewster |
I have no doubt that when he created Star Trek: The Original Series Gene Roddenberry was hoping for a smash ...
Read More 
Book Review: The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard, edited by David A. Goodman
By David Wangberg |
Following the success of The Autobiography of James T. Kirk, David A. Goodman explores the background of another well-known and ...
Read More 
Book Review: Little Orphan Annie, Volume Fourteen (1948-1950): Sunshine and Shadow by Harold Gray
By Mat Brewster |
When I last checked in with Little Orphan Annie (in Volume Ten), she was busy fighting the war (World War ...
Read More 
Book Review: Unchained Melody: The Films of Meiko Kaji by Tom Mes
By Mat Brewster |
You first notice the long, straight black hair. Then you see her body: thin, straight, erect. You look past the ...
Read More 
Book Review: The Complete Dick Tracy, Volume 22: 1964-1965 by Chester Gould
By Gordon S. Miller |
As the Library of American Comics and IDW Publishing continue to collect The Complete Dick Tracy by Chester Gould, Volume ...
Read More 
Book Review: Ghost in the Shell by Andrew Osmond
By Mat Brewster |
Ghost in the Shell began life as a manga series that lasted from 1989 to 1997. In 1995, Marmoru Oshii ...
Read More
Book Review: Unchained Melody: The Films of Meiko Kaji by Tom Mes
By Kent Conrad |
To much of the post-Millennium western cinematic audience, Meiko Kaji was introduced with her voice. Both the theme songs from ...
Read More 
Book Review: A Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Edited by Zachary Auburn
By Rons Reviews |
It's rare these days to get your expectations exceeded. Even rarer is to come upon a treasure that elicits both ...
Read More 
Book Review: The Art and Making of Kong: Skull Island by Simon Ward
By Gordon S. Miller |
Author Simon Ward takes viewers to and behind the scenes of Kong: Skull Island in his book that looks at ...
Read More 
Book Review: The Complete Steve Canyon, Volume 7: 1959-1960 by Milton Caniff
By Gordon S. Miller |
Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon ran from January 13, 1947 until June 4, 1988. The strip's titular hero served as an ...
Read More 
Book Review: The Amazing Spider-Man: The Ultimate Newspaper Comics Collection Vol. 4, 1983-1984 by Stan Lee, Fred Kida, and Floro Dery
By Steve Geise |
With Fred Kida in control on daily art duties, Stan Lee started his writing chores in 1983 with nearly four ...
Read More 
Book Review: Wonder Woman: The Art and Making of the Film by Sharon Gosling
By Chad Derdowski |
With a history dating back to 1941 and a variety of interpretations in comics, prose, and television, Wonder Woman is ...
Read More 
Book Review: Aliens: Bug Hunt, Edited by Jonathan Maberry
By Mark Buckingham |
Each film in the original Alien trilogy represents a unique approach to science fiction. Alien took sci-fi and suspense and ...
Read More 
Book Review: Donald Duck: The Complete Daily Newspaper Comics Volume 4 (1945-1947)
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Jeff Provine Everything old is new again with the upcoming reboot of Duck Tales on Disney XD, which ...
Read More 
Book Review: Walt Disney’s Treasury of Classic Tales, Volume One
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney was a savvy businessman. With a staff of talented writers and artists employed to create films, he was ...
Read More 
Book Review: Batman: A Celebration of the Classic TV Series by Bob Garcia and Joe Desris
By Gordon S. Miller |
Given its own yellow utility belt, Batman: A Celebration of the Classic TV Series is a marvelous compendium about the ...
Read More 
Book Review: Star Wars: The Complete Classic Newspaper Comics, Vol. 1
By Gordon S. Miller |
Before The Empire Strikes Back was released in 1980, Star Wars fans who wanted more stories from George Lucas' “galaxy ...
Read More 
Books Review: Donald Duck: The Complete Daily Newspaper Comics, Volume 3 and The Complete Sunday Newspaper Comics, Volume 2 (1943-1945)
By Steve Geise |
There's something decidedly comforting about reading old Disney comic strips, as they're reliably funny, relatable, and finely crafted. These latest ...
Read More 
Book Review: The Marvel Vault by Thomas, Sanderson, and Manning
By Gordon S. Miller |
Originally published in 2007, Roy Thomas and Peter Sanderson's The Marvel Vault was clearly in need of Matthew K. Manning's ...
Read More 
Book Review: Red Barry: Undercover Man, Vol. 1 (1934-1935) by Will Gould
By Mat Brewster |
I adored newspaper comic strips as I was growing up. My parents took in the Tulsa World, which was a ...
Read More 
Book Review: Star Hawks, Volume One: 1977-1978 by Gil Kane and Ron Goulart
By Mat Brewster |
In early 1977, right at the start of the cultural science-fiction boom of the late '70s, the newspaper syndicate NEA ...
Read More 
Book Review: Superman: The Golden Age Newspaper Dailies (1942-1944)
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Tim Gebhart Imagine the conundrum. America recently entered World War II, a war the government pronounces a battle ...
Read More 
Book Review: James Bond: SPECTRE: The Complete Comic Strip Collection
By Gordon S. Miller |
Having previously collected and released the James Bond newspaper comic-strip adventures that ran in British newspapers, including in Omnibus Volumes ...
Read More 
Book Review: Film Noir Light and Shadow: Shedding Light on Dark Films
By Mat Brewster |
Much like the Supreme Court with pornography, I find "film noir" difficult to define, but I know it when I ...
Read More 
Book Review: The Complete Dick Tracy, Volume 21: 1962-1964 by Chester Gould
By Gordon S. Miller |
As the Library of American Comics and IDW Publishing continue to collect The Complete Dick Tracy by Chester Gould, Volume ...
Read More 
Book Review: Star Trek: The Classic UK Comics, Vol. 2: Where Some Fans May Never Have Gone Before
By Elizabeth Periale |
There are so many branches to the Star Trek universe: novelizations, movies, re-boot film series, animated series, magazines, television series, ...
Read More 
Book Review: Star Trek: New Visions Volume 4 by John Byrne
By Gordon S. Miller |
In Star Trek: New Visions, John Byrne tells of the lost missions of the Starship Enterprise under the command of ...
Read More 
Book Review: Tarzan on Film by Scott Tracy Griffin
By Gordon S. Miller |
Author Scott Tracy Griffin has followed up his Tarzan: The Centennial Celebration with Tarzan on Film, a marvelous exploration of ...
Read More 
Book Review: LOAC Essentials Vol. 8: King Features Essentials 1: Krazy Kat 1934 by George Harriman: Rare Dailies of the Kraziest of Komics
By Kent Conrad |
It is ironic that, in the era of the Internet which has disrupted so much of modern publishing, it has ...
Read More 
Books Review: Star Trek: New Visions Issue #3 “Cry Vengeance” and Issue #4 “Made Out of Mudd” by John Byrne
By Rons Reviews |
When I was growing up two of the things that I was really into were comic books and Star Trek. ...
Read More 
Book Review: The Art of Selling Movies by John McElwee
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Tim Gebhart Today's digital media dislodged or diminished a variety of other media. Some are conspicuous: VHS and ...
Read More 
Book Review: Superman: The Atomic Age Sundays, Volume 2 (1953-1956)
By Chad Derdowski |
Superman: The Atomic Age Sundays, Volume 2 (1953-1956) is the fourth collection of classic Superman Sunday comic strips from IDW ...
Read More 
Book Review: Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies Vol. 2 (1935-1939)
By Mat Brewster |
From 1929 to 1939, the Walt Disney company created 75 original animated short films under its Silly Symphonies line. As ...
Read More 
Book Review: Batman: The Silver Age Newspaper Comics Vol. 3, 1969-1972
By Steve Geise |
Long before most of us were reading the funny pages, Batman was finishing up a six-year comic strip run fueled ...
Read More 
Book Review: Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3 by Robert Matzen
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Tim Gebhart Like the rest of America, World War II transformed Hollywood. Within 10 days of Pearl Harbor, ...
Read More 
Book Review: Li’l Abner: The Complete Dailies and Color Sundays, Volume 8: 1949-1950 by Al Capp
By Gordon S. Miller |
As the Library of American Comics and IDW Publishing continue to collect Li'l Abner: The Complete Dailies and Color Sundays ...
Read More 
Book Review: The Complete David Bowie (Revised and Updated 2016 Edition) by Nicholas Pegg
By Gordon S. Miller |
"Complete" is an accurate description of this astoundingly thorough encyclopedia of Bowie's work. The book naturally opens with "The Songs ...
Read More 
Book Review: Feeding Hannibal: A Connoisseur’s Cookbook by Janice Poon
By Lorna Miller |
Hannibal was one of the most beautiful yet disturbing shows I have ever seen. One of the most beautiful aspects ...
Read More 
Book Review: Aliens: The Set Photography by Simon Ward
By Mark Buckingham |
The movie Aliens turned 30 recently, and there are rumblings of another movie in the Alien universe in the works, ...
Read More 
Book Review: Only the Dead Know Burbank by Bradford Tatum
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Jeff Provine Dracula, Frankenstein, the Phantom of the Opera: all members of the classic horror era that continues ...
Read More 
Book Review: The Complete Dick Tracy, Volume 20: 1961-1962 by Chester Gould
By Gordon S. Miller |
As the Library of American Comics and IDW Publishing continue to collect The Complete Dick Tracy by Chester Gould, Volume ...
Read More 
Book Review: The Blacklist: Elizabeth Keen’s Dossier by Tara Bennett and Paul Terry: A Reminder of the Show’s Original Vision
By Greg Barbrick |
"If you are reading this, then something has gone wrong" are the first words we encounter in the new book ...
Read More
Recent Comments