If you’ve read any of the Hernandez Brothers’ Love and Rockets books and have not already fallen in love with Maggie Chascarillo, Jaime Hernandez’s newest Fantagraphics release will most certainly convince you otherwise. A coming of age story, without the candy coating we’ve come to expect, The Love Bunglers explores the complexity of growing up – the icky feelings that come with the loss of innocence, with parents and their children becoming peers, and the trade-offs that come with the acquisition of wisdom. And it does so without ever losing sight of the wonder of it all.
The Love Bunglers, Hernandez in Hindsight
Posted: July 2, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic BooksTags: Fantagraphics, Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Love and Rockets, Maggie Chascarillo, The Love Bunglers
“Knights of Sidonia” Netflix Debut
Posted: July 1, 2014 by Brie Young in Anime & Manga, GeneralTags: Anime, Japanese, Knights of Sidonia, Manga, Netflix
There is no denying Netflix’s knack for producing popular shows (as OITNB is basically what everyone talks about.) Netflix is now branching out with the anime TV series, Knights of Sidonia, streaming this July 4th.
The Knights of Sidonia originates from the manga comic series and the anime TV series that aired in April-June in Japan. The story revolves are the protagonist of the 12-episode summer series, Nagate Tanikaze, and his adventures set on the space ship named Sidonia.
“Outbound #1: The Science Fiction Comics Anthology” Review
Posted: June 26, 2014 by Brie Young in Comicology - Comic Books, General, Independent ComicsTags: Boston Comics Roundtable, Outbound, Outbound #1, River Bird Studios, Science Fiction Anthology
The Boston Comics Roundtable and River Bird Studios Presents Outbound #1, the science fiction comics anthology. In Outbound, readers find a cluster of comics spanning throughout space and time. The protagonists of the stories varies from a futuristic race to high-tech humans or the less common hero—a flea. Not just any flea, but a flea in space.
Little Big Adventure Returns To iOS and Android
Posted: June 23, 2014 by Ian Gaudreau in Gamenomics - Video Games, Steam, PC, & Indie GamesTags: Andriod, iOS, Little Big Adventure
You play as Twinsen, a young hero living on Citadel Island on a world under the heel of the dictator Dr. FunFrock. You’ve been having strange dreams in which your planet is about to be destroyed. These dreams don’t make Dr. FunFrock particularly happy, and he locks you away in an insane asylum. As Twinsen, you’ll need to escape from your cell and discover your incredible destiny as a descendant of a long line of magicians in charge of protecting your planet’s secret!
Horribly Beautiful
Posted: June 18, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic Books, Independent ComicsTags: bande dessinee, Beautiful Darkness, Drawn and Quarterly, Fabien Vehlmann, Kerascoet, Marie Pommepuy, Sebastian Cosset
What would happen if we had to start over? To rebuild and live simply, off the land, as they say? Well, according to Fabien Vehlmann and the artist collaboration known as Kerascoet, nothing good. Their new book, Beautiful Darkness, put out by Drawn and Quarterly, is a fairy tale gone demented, in which adorable and sinister prove to be inseparable.
‘Avengers and X-men: AXIS’ Details Revealed
Posted: June 17, 2014 by Brie Young in Comicology - Comic Books, General, MarvelTags: Iron Man, Marvel, Red Skull, X-Men, Xavier
Marvel released details of the fall event series where two best sellers, Avengers and X-men, will join up again (after Uncanny Avengers) against a common super villain.
The upgraded villain of the series is Red Skull, as known from Captain America, and his telepathic powers gained from parts of Professor Xavier’s brain… Ah, the perfect mixture of the two groups.
E3 2014 Recap
Posted: June 11, 2014 by Ian Gaudreau in Gamenomics - Video Games, Microsoft/Xbox, Nintendo, Sony/PlayStationTags: E3, E3 2014, Microsoft, PS4, Sony, WiiU, Xbox One
Another fantastic Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) has come to an end. Although new consoles were absent from all developers, the entire show was dedicated to the newest games and hardware coming in the next year. It was refreshing to see creative ideas from each conference, with innovative spins on classic games combining with the rise of attention to new independent games. Dozens of new titles were showcased, but here are some of our favorites:
A Religious Experience…
Posted: June 11, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic Books, Image ComicsTags: Abhishek Singh, Bhagavad Gita, Deepak Chopra, Hindu, Image comics, Indian mythology, Krishna: A Journey Within, Mahabharata, Vishnu
Wow. It’s not just that it’s three hundred pages, but that it’s three hundred gorgeous pages. Three hundred gorgeous pages, all of them written and illustrated by one person, Indian artist Abhishek Singh. It comes as no surprise, then, that Krishna: A Journey Within was a four year endeavor, an exercise in perseverance and sacrifice, but also in love and bliss.
“Calvin and Hobbes” Bill Watterson returns to Cartoons
Posted: June 11, 2014 by Brie Young in Art, Comicology - Comic Books, Independent ComicsTags: Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes, Cartoonist, Stephan Pastis, Team Cul De Sac
Not many cartoonists make brief unannounced returns to newspaper cartooning just for the hell of it– unless you are Bill Watterson. The retired Calvin and Hobbes creator “thought it would be funny” to on a “whim” collaborate with “Pearls Before Swine” cartoonist Stephan Pastis this week.









