by George RR Martin, Stephano Martino ; IDW
Alistair Robb — 12-Jan-11
This just doesn’t cut it for me. There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with the writing, it’s well thought out and the dialogue is okay, but it doesn’t blow me away. The whole ‘other-dimensional shtick’ has been done a million times before and needs to be a hundred times better to grab my attention.
Tags: George RR Martin, IDW, Stephano Martino
by Cliff Sterrett ; IDW
Jonathan Bogart — 04-Jan-11
Thoughts I have had in regard to Polly & Her Pals, Vol. 1: 1925-1927, recently out from IDW…
Tags: Cliff Sterrett, IDW, newspaper strips, Polly & Her Pals
by Darwyn Cooke ; IDW
Richard Baez — 04-Jan-11
A great deal of the pleasure of Donald Westlake’s Parker books (written under the nom de plume of Richard Stark, as the unwieldly IDW titles are careful to remind us) comes from watching a man who knows what he’s doing do what he does.
Tags: Darwyn Cooke, Donald Westlake, IDW, Richard Stark
by Steve Niles, Berni Wrightson ; IDW
Peter Campbell — 27-Dec-10
Doc Macabre is a slight but nonetheless entertaining comic from the team of Steve Niles and Berni Wrightson.
Tags: Berni Wrightson, horror, IDW, Steve Niles
by Dan DeCarlo, Stan Goldberg ; IDW
Nigel Fletcher — 27-Dec-10
These two oversize hardbacks reprint material from various Archie titles each concentrating on the work of a single artist. The reproduction is excellent and the colouring, based on the original guides, very sympathetic to the glossy paper.
Tags: Archie, Dan DeCarlo, IDW, Stan Goldberg
by Dick Briefer, Craig Yoe ; IDW
JT Lindroos — 25-Nov-10
If this book, the first volume in IDW’s “Chilling Archives of Horror Comics”, is any indication of what the future holds in store, we’re in for a treat. This gorgeous large-size hardback is priced to be affordable, loaded with wonderful artwork, printed beautifully and selected appropriately to showcase all the different faces of Dick Briefer’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Tags: Dick Briefer, Frankenstein, IDW
by Billy DeBeck, Craig Yoe ; IDW
Jonathan Bogart — 12-Nov-10
Barney Google was the great picaresque comic strip of the 1920s and 30s. Billy DeBeck’s artwork, more notable for its energy more than for its draftsmanship, was unique on the comics page, a scribbly, gestural line supported by shrewd shading and opulent backgrounds that were more suggested than drawn.
Tags: Barney Google, Billy DeBeck, IDW, newspaper strips