Peanuts #0By Hervé St-LouisCharles Schulz’s Peanuts is back as new series for kids and new stories created for the first time by new comic book artists. This is but a preview issue of the book that Boom! Studios’ imprint for kids Kaboom! Will release soon. But is it any good? The stories are fine. Mind you, I’m not a Peanutologist, so maybe I’m missing some subtle point about the philosophy and comment of the characters and some grandiose message that a normal Schulz strip would have. One thing that is odd is the commercialization of this new Peanut series for kids. Although certainly children, Peanuts is not necessarily written for them. More than any other comic strip, Peanut always had strong themes and stories that entertained adult audiences. This comic book is important to me and a lot of people and I have many issues to address. Let’s start with some house cleaning... Read More |
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Marvel’s First FamilyBy Andy FriskStan Lee and Jack Kirby’s children, and Marvel Comics’ reigning First Family, the Fantastic Four have come a long way. A series of comic books featuring them, or some conglomerate of them, have reached the 600 count. I can’t say that their series proper has reached this number of issues, since it’s been stopped, started, renumbered, and changed titles since its original inception in November of 1961. Nevertheless, the Fantastic Four have survived longer and remained more intermittently relevant for longer than most comic book series last. Undoubtedly, their stories have swayed from intelligent and touching to silly and throwaway. They are still with us though, 600 issues and 50 years later. Most recently, and under the direction of Jonathan Hickman, The Fantastic Four have rarely been more interesting or well written. That is until Hickman really started to get popular and some of his ideas began to sprawl out... Read More |
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The Adventures of Tintin Season OneThe Adventures of Tintin collects the first season of the cartoon series produced in a by Canadian animation studio Nelvana and French studio Ellipse. This series remained closer to the source material than the original cartoon shorts produced in the late 1950s. Tintin is a reporter and an adventurer who... Read More |
The Simon and Kirby Library – CrimeThis collected book reprints several comic books crime stories created by comic book greats Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Simon, who is still alive and nearly 100 years-old as well as Kirby’s estate collaborated on the production of this book. The book contains several stories published in various comic books... Read More |