For the latest ‘Artist Spotlight’, we decided to showcase the late great Darwyn Cooke!
Artist Spotlight: Darwyn Cooke (1962-2016)
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Comic Zombie Podcast #29: X-Men: The Age of Apocalypse!
Issue 29: X-Men: The Age of Apocalypse!
“I am the rocks of the eternal shore: crash against me and be broken!” -Apocalypse
In this solo episode, Chris goes deep into Marvel comics lore to gush about another famous (infamous?) 90’s X-Men story-arc: “THE AGE OF APOCALYPSE”!
(Episode edited by Chris Carroll and Erik Slader)
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“SIN CITY: BOOZE, BROADS, AND BULLETS” (VOL 6) – Revisited
Click here for Vol 5 – “Family Values”
“She shivers in the wind, like the last leaf on a dying tree.” – the Colonel
BOOZE, BROADS, & BULLETS
The sixth “Sin City” volume is an anthology, collecting various short stories set in Frank Miller’s Basin City.
Continue readingComic Zombie Podcast #28: “THE SANDMAN” Review (Comics vs Show)
Issue 28: “THE SANDMAN” Review (Comics vs Show)
“If dreams disappear, then so will humanity…” – Morpheus
Erik and Chris break down the incredible Netflix adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s “Sandman” graphic novels…
Also On This Episode:
- Erik reviews Alex Ross’s “Fantastic Four: Full Circle”
- Artist Spotlight: Marcos Martín
- Essential Reads: The Flash
- Ben (from Dragoon Effect) reviews “Batman ’89” (2022)
Check out our blog at ComicZombie.net for more, including Erik’s recent reviews of Frank Miller’s Sin City graphic novels!
(Episode edited by Erik Slader)
Continue reading“SIN CITY: THAT YELLOW BASTARD” (VOL 4) – Revisited
Click here for Vol 3 – “The Big Fat Kill”!
“I take his weapons away from him… Both of them.” – John Hartigan
“THAT YELLOW BASTARD”
This has got to be one of the most disturbing tales in the entire series…
Originally released as a six-part mini-series, and inspired by the “Dirty Harry” movies, Frank Miller’s fourth story arc in the “Sin City” saga is “That Yellow Bastard”. While the book is still in black and white, this one’s notable as being the first in the series to include color in it’s dark and grimy pages: the Yellow bastard himself is – you guessed it – yellow. And not just any yellow, it’s a gross, sickly, yellow. And when he shows up, it’s jarring as all hell, something’s just not right about him.
Continue reading“SIN CITY: THE BIG FAT KILL” (VOL 3) – Revisited
Click here for PART ONE and PART TWO
“Stay smart. Stay cool. It’s time to prove to you’re friends that you’re worth a damn. Sometimes that means dying. Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people.” – Dwight McCarthy
“THE BIG FAT KILL”
Volume 3 might be my favorite of the Sin City graphic novels so far! Frank Miller’s “The Big Fat Kill” continues the story of Dwight McCarthy (from “A Dame to Kill For”), as he’s once again pulled into treacherous game of life and death. This one has some of my absolute favorite panels, lines, and character moments in the entire series.
Continue reading“SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR” (VOL 2) – Revisited
Click here for Vol 1: The Hard Goodbye!
“Do us both a favor and stay still long enough for me to blow your brains out.” – Ava Lord
“A DAME TO KILL FOR”
Frank Miller’s “Sin City” comics continued in 1993 with “A Dame to Kill For”, a mystery featuring a private investigator, Dwight McCarthy, who becomes ensnared in a plot involving his ex-fiancé, Ava Lord. The story takes place parallel to “The Hard Goodbye” and even includes appearances by Marv!
Continue reading“SIN CITY: THE HARD GOODBYE” (VOL 1) – Revisited
“Well, I’m gonna find that son of a bitch that killed you, and I’m gonna give him the hard goodbye. Walk down the right back alley in Sin City, and you can find anything.” – Marv
After having revisited all six volumes of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s “Scott Pilgrim” graphic novels, I decided to jump back into another one of my all time favorite ‘indie’ comic book series: Frank Miller’s “Sin City”!
Frank Miller’s Sin City
“Sin City” is a neo-noir anthology series. It’s basically Frank Miller’s ode to the works of the great pulp crime novels and detective yarns. Sin City aggressively leans into the tropes of the entire film noir genre, but it’s also wholly unique in it’s style and storytelling, thanks entirely to the incredible talent of writer/artist Frank Miller. It’s easily one of the most iconic works of Miller’s career, a career filled to the brim with some of the greatest graphic novels of the era: “300”, “The Dark Knight Returns”, and “Daredevil: Born Again” just to name a few.
Continue readingArtist Spotlight: Tim Sale (RIP)
We were extremely saddened to hear about the recent passing of renowned comic book artist Tim Sale, so we decided to spotlight his life’s work on the latest podcast (Issue #26).
Books to check out:
- Superman: For All Seasons
- Spider-man: Blue
- Daredevil: Yellow
- Hulk: Gray
- Captain America: White
- Batman: The Long Halloween
- Batman: Dark Victory
- Batman: Haunted Knight
Artist Spotlight: Alex Ross
In our latest episode (Comic Zombie #23), we decided to showcase one of our all-time favorite artists in the industry, the one and only, the legendary Alex Ross!
Books to Check Out:
- Kingdom Come
- Marvels
- Justice
- Earth X (Trilogy)
- U.S. – Uncle Sam (graphic novel)
- Justice Society of America (covers)
- The Immortal Hulk (covers)
- Batman: War on Crime, Superman: Peace on Earth, Wonder Woman: Spirit of Truth, etc
- Secret Wars (2015 event – covers)
- Amazing Spider-man (2015-2018 covers)
- Fantastic Four: Full Circle (coming soon!)
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