historical fiction

What a perfect time for former DC Comics editor, former Lion Forge senior editor, former Valiant senior editor Joseph Illidge to put together a line of titles for those wondering where they are going to get their future Vertigo-esque titles from? As Editorial Director of A Wave Blue World alongside Lisa Y. Wu, VP of […]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Aric and Sabbas are in the gladiatorial arena trying to survive the simulated naval battle being held. The two use this as an opportunity to escape and make it out of the arena. Aric is still intent on finding his friend Gafti's brother, Batwin. Arin sneaks into the compound where Batwin is being […]

I’m still a little off-put by this fairly dry and straightforward historical fiction being dropped into this otherwise high sci-fi title, and it’s nakedly a holding pattern while Harbinger Wars II finishes up.It’s not badly-written; Matt Kindt is as talented as ever Aric isn’t an especially interesting character in this tale[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Harriet has come face-to-face with Roger, aka the Dead Hand. Roger panics, but Carter calms him as best as possible. Carter and Renae get her out of the room, but Roger wants to talk to Harriet again soon. Carter and Renae are now forced to explain what the Dead Hand and what Mountainview […]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Nicolas Fardas is drinking himself into oblivion at a Constantinople dive when Archimedes Vasilakas arrives with an opportunity. Archimedes has had his property stolen by Terazin Berikos, the man who ruined Nicolas's life. This convinces Nicolas to help, and he puts together a team to get back at Berikos. This includes Sofana the […]

It's a bit late again, and I didn't get around to doing it last week. However, the Top and Bottom 5 Comics is back again this week. What soared? What fell on its face? Let's find out together now! Best Comics of the Week 1. Immortal Hulk #2 Immortal Hulk kicked off with a hell of […]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Elsbeth and Dags ride a fishing vessel away from Norway, ultimately landing in Ireland. Here, they find a woman with the back of her head caved in, and the local constable immediately blames Elsbeth and her father. Dags intuits that this is not the first of such killings and lands a job hunting […]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Zane and Bette plan to expose Van Horn as a fraud and having plagiarized Xavier's manuscript. Bette receives a threatening invitation to meet at the Waldorf Astoria. She must go alone, so she helps Zane put together a disguise to get in as well. She meets with the perpetrator of it all, and […]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Sabbas is hunted by the brothers of the slaver he killed, and he escapes on a boat, meeting a writer along the way. The two have a bizarrely shared vision of a tale of a cursed ring. Elsewhere, Aric continues to fight the Huns wherever he can. This leads him into the presence […]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Vlad, Radu, and Mehmed are now hunting vampires across the Ottoman realm, and we join the on one such raid against the creatures. Vlad leads the charge, but Radu is pinned down after taking a few of the monsters down. Vlad asks Mehmed to help Radu, but Mehmed freezes. Vlad must save his […]

[user_id] [user_id] [rwp-review-recap id="0"] Pope Price has been gathering the former infected as an excuse to sate his illicit desires. Satan has taken notice and uses this opportunity to make the Pope an offer. Elsewhere, Roderick and the Fiat Lux fight another horde of the eaters, and the devil confronts the knight here. He threatens […]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] The interrogation of Mata Hari continues, and she is beginning to break. We see how she joined up with the circus and later became a dancer in the theater. We see her becoming a liaison for important men across Europe. All the while, she wants nothing more than to get custody of her […]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] The Russian and German tank brigades clash on the Russian front. Piotr and Ginger are barely avoiding fire from the Superpanzers until they discover something odd about the Panzer tank column. Meanwhile, Karl and Freddie are swarmed by Soviet tanks. World of Tanks: Citadel #2 is a World War II and tank nerd's […]

The Top and Bottom 5 Comics for the week has run late again; I apologize. You can blame E3 a little if you like. I do. Anyway, this week was actually very good for the Big Two and comics in general. There was a lot to like. I still found a few stinkers in the […]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Xerxes has returned home to the Persian Empire as its ruler. We see the beginning and ending of his rule. We see him seeking a wife and finding it in Esther, niece of Mordecai of Judea. She marries Xerxes on the condition that he and Persia will spare the people of Zion. The […]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Elisabeth is the daughter of Dags. The two live in Norway. Ten years ago, their village was raided and slaughtered by a Viking clan called the Forty Swords. Dags went catatonic for ten years while Elisabeth took care of him. Now, he is awake with a daughter that doesn't properly know him. He […]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Finola is the daughter of an Irish king called Padraig the Grotesque. She and her friend, Cillian have run away from their respective homes, the former the king and the latter the local monastery. Padraig is tearing a warpath across Ireland, and Finola hates him for it, and she hates the goddess he […]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] While X-O Manowar tries to determine the best course of action regarding the upcoming Harbinger War, Shanhara, Aric's suit, takes us back to the earlier days of Aric and the Visigoths. We focus on two figures: Sabbas and Aric. Sabbas is a slave worker in the mines of Zambia, and Aric stakes out […]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Zane and Bette avoid being captured by the police and leave the hospital. They regroup back at the bar Zane frequents, and he has more questions about Bette and what she knows about Xavier. This puts Zane on the trail of another attendant of Van Horn's party: an actor named Douglass. Incognegro: Renaissance […]

Mehmet comes to grips with his own inadequacy during the fight.The first issue disappointed me somewhat with its sidetracking of what, at first glance, seemed to be a straightforward historical fiction by injecting it with the predictable vampiric elements that now accompany the legend of Vlad the Impaler Brothers Dracul #2 asks why we can’t[...]