Kelson Reviews Comics

• Birding Is My Favorite Video Game ★★★★★ Rosemary Mosco
  A fun collection of cartoons about nature (not just birds!) collected from Bird and Moon. Mostly funny, a few serious.
• Chivalry ★★★★★ Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran
  Beautifully drawn and illustrated, a charming tale of Arthurian legend brought into modern times.
• The Comic Bug ★★★★★ Open, inviting, and kid-friendly, with friendly staff and a wide selection. Frequent artist/writer signings.
• Comics Toons N’ Toys ★★★★★ The best comic store I’ve been to in Orange County. The staff is friendly and helpful, and the selection is incredible.
• Dark Knights: Metal ★★★☆☆ Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, and Jonathan Glapion
  The art is great, and the scope is ambitious, but the story follows the same beats as Final Crisis.
• Final Crisis (Audio and Graphic Novel) It actually flows better than the comic book, especially toward the end, when the comic starts fragmenting the narrative.
• Final Crisis: Revisiting the Tie-Ins Superman Beyond is essential. Submit and Reqiuem show the street-level perspective. Rogues Revenge is not a good as I remember.
• Flash: Stop Motion (Audio) Mark Schultz
  The concepts are intriguing, the characters are handled well, and the full cast and sound effects make up for the lack of visuals in superhero novels.
• Good Time Travel Comics ★★★★★ Some DC stories I can recommend include DC One Million, JLA: Rock of Ages, Time Masters, and Chronos.
• iZombie (graphic novels) ★★★★★ Chris Roberson, Mike & Laura Allred, Todd Klein
  A horror/comedy that ranges from Scooby Doo to Lovecraft by way of Moorcock, featuring thinking zombies, vampires who run paintball, ghosts, secret societies, and a were-terrier. Off the wall concepts and a clean, sharp art style that contrasts with the monsters and gore. The TV series was loosely based on these comics.
• New Spring (Comic Book) #1 The first issue of the New Spring comic book was surprisingly good.
• New Spring (Comics): The Long Publishing Saga It’s taken a long time (and three publishers) to complete this adaptation of the Wheel of Time prequel, even though it only covered eight standard-sized comic books
• Pebble and Wren ★★★★★ Chris Hallbeck
  Hilarious and heartwarming tale of a girl and the monster who lives under her bed.
• Stan Lee’s Starborn Stan Lee, Chris Roberson and Khary Randolph
  An unpublished writer discovers that the science fiction saga he’s been building since childhood is actually very, very real. And it wants him dead.
• Tales From The Bully Pulpit ★★★★★ Benito Cereno and Graeme MacDonald
  A sci-fi comedy graphic novel featuring a time-traveling Teddy Roosevelt and the ghost of Thomas Edison, battling a descendant of Adolf Hitler. On Mars. Wearing mecha armor.
• Time Breakers ★★★★☆ Rachel Pollack and Chris Weston
  This comic book from the 1990s flips the familiar time-cop trope on its head: Instead of protecting time from paradoxes, the protagonists are trying to create more paradoxes, convinced that the very existence of life depends on it.
• Tinyview Comics ★★★★☆ Good comics formatted for small screens.
• A Wizard of Earthsea (Graphic Novel) ★★★★★ Ursula K. Le Guin and Fred Fordham
  Fordham’s watercolor-style art is absolutely gorgeous. The adaptation plays to the medium’s strengths, allowing the visuals to tell the story when possible, keeping Le Guin’s prose when needed. Wide seascapes, rocky coasts, forested landscapes, people (not whitewashed!) and dragons…

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