Murder Book / Back to Brooklyn

I developed an interest in crime comics leading up to the creation and release of Acts of Violence: An Anthology of Crime Comics in which my comic “The Three Princes” appears. I researched the genre– from its heyday in the 40s and early 50s, to its decline (and the parallel decline of horror comics) in [...]

Elephantmen: Wounded Animals

Elephantmen: Wounded Animals
Image Comics
(w) Richard Starkings and others
(a) Moritat and others
FC, 224 pgs, $24.99 US / Higher in Canada

Elephantmen is a spin off from the series Hip Flask. It’s set in the same dystopian future and expands on various minor characters from the main series. Each issue features two stories. The first puts the focus on a different Elephantman, a genetic hybrid between man and animal, to give us insight into their current and former lives, thus providing more information about these characters, many of whom play supporting roles in Hip Flask. The second stories are pieces of a longer story involving Hieronymus “Hip” Flask trying to obtain an African artifact.

Cowboy Ninja Viking #1

Cowboy Ninja Viking #1 Image Comics (w) A.J. Lieberman (a) Riley Rossmo FC 32 pgs w/ ads $3.50 US / Higher in Canada I haven’t read anything from A.J. Lieberman since his run on the now defunct Batman: Gotham Knights way back in 2006. He wrote also Martian Manhunter series that I didn’t read and [...]

Strange Adventures of H. P. Lovecraft #2

Howard Philip Lovecraft has been writing short stories for the magazine Weird Tales and forced to live with his two aunts as his mother has been committed to a mental asylum. And he’s come to the startling conclusion that his dark and disturbing dreams are becoming reality. Still suffering from writer’s block and a broken heart, Lovecraft discovers that the two sailors who had robbed him the day before were murdered in the same fashion that he dreamed about. As he unravels the mystery, things seem to be getting worse.

Torso Graphic Novel

Torso is also a history lesson explaining another significant development in serial killer lore: The first serial killer in America.
A number of dismembered bodies washed up along the shores of Lake Erie in and around Cleveland in the 1930s. The headless torsos left little clue as to their identity, the cause or the reason for death.