Substantial Reviews of Substantial Comics
Ratings: Bad, OK, Good, Magic. Content: Action, Fun, Fantasy, All Ages, Beyond, Gay, Smut.
Journeyman - Brandon McKinney (a nameless solitary hero roams an alien world) Star Crossed - Matt Howarth (an ill-fated romance between a space-adapted human and an asteroid) Prisonopolis, Infochameleon - Ben Adams & co. (stories with something to say about our future) The Invisibles - Grant Morrison, Phil Jimenez (what if those occult conspiracies were all real?) Atlantis Chronicles - Peter David, Esteban Maroto (the epic of Aquaman's kingdom and people) Cell - Derek Kirk (a very good, but unfinished mystery) Smith Brown Jones - Jon "Bean" Hastings (a dryly funny story of an alien accountant on Earth) Soulwind - C.Scott Morse (a tale of fantasy and adventure in another world) Reality Check - Rosearik Rikki, Tavisha Wolfgarth (a boy and his cat/VR-girlfriend) Birdland - Gilbert Hernandez (surreal, sexy stuff by the Love & Rockets creator) Wandering Star - Terri Sue Wood (a woman recounts her pivotal experiences in an interstellar war) Roswell: Little Green Man - Bill Morrison (a hapless Zootian crashes near Roswell in 1947) Galaxion - Tara Jenkins (the maiden voyage of an experimental hyperdrive vessel) Gemini Blood - Christopher Hinz, T.L.Edwards (mercenaries vs. creatures with 2 bodies but 1 mind) Time Breakers - Rachel Pollack, Chris Weston (What if time paradoxes were necessary for life to exist?) XXXenophile - Phil Foglio & co. (sexy, funny short stories in a universe of settings) Oktane - Gerard Jones, Gene Ha (a 10-foot oil-guzzling post-apocalyptic enigma) Turok #1 - Fabian Nicieza, Rafael Kayanan (an irresponsible stud[ent] becomes Turok the dinosaur hunter) Eradicator - Velez, Robinson, Lowe (the last "pure" Kryptonian looks for his humanity) CyberZone #1-7 - Jimmie Robinson (future adventures of a street-tough woman and her sentient Gunn) Leatherboy - Craig Maynard (a gay sex-toy superhero fights a super-powered-sex menace) Xenobrood - Moench, Coker/Hunter, Aiken/Lowe (a team of "genies released from a bottle") The DC Challenge! - the 1986 DC creative staff (round-robin mini-series featuring DC's superheroes) The Foot Soldiers vol.1 - Kreuger, Oeming (a group of kids become heroes in an oppressed future) Age of Reptiles: The Hunt #1,2 - Ricardo Delgado (wordless miniseries from Dark Horse) Powers That Be / Star Seed #1-4 - Jim Shooter & co (superhero series from Broadway Comics) V for Vendetta - Alan Moore, David Lloyd (a masked anarchist takes on fascist Britain) Akiko on the Planet Smoo - Mark Crilley (a 4th-grade girl's adventures on another world) Avant Guard #2 - Stephen Conley (old-style superheroes drawn using modern computer tools)
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