Geek Syndibytes – Harker Audio Review

Listen to Audio Review: Harker Audio Review

Written by British comic writer Tony Lee (Doctor Who, Pride & Prejudice & Zombies) and drawn by the art team of Neil Van Antwerpen and Peter-David Douglas (Starship Troopers), FROM THE PAGES OF BRAM STOKER’S ‘DRACULA’: HARKER is a faithful return to the original characters, set six months on from the Count’s grizzly death, and six months before the birth of Jonathan and Mina’s son, Quincey.

Hellblazer:The Laughing Magician

I recently read a couple of Hellblazer trades by Andy Diggle, Joyride and The Laughing Magician. I really enjoyed both of them very much, I think the Diggle man is rather awesome and shall have to root out more of his stuff as haven’t yet read a duff thing.

Amber’s News & Reviews – Tiny Titans #19

Comic Review – Faction Issue 0

Advance Review – Underground #1 and #2

Writer : Jeff Parker

Art : Steve Lieber

Color : Ron Chan

Publisher : Image Comics

A couple days ago as I was sitting down to start reading the backlog of comics I had I heard a beep.  A beep that could only mean one thing.  Oooh an e-mail showed up.  I’m always excited to read e-mails as when they come in I can pretend I have friends.  So I click.  And it’s an e-mail from Jeff Parker and Steve Lieber.  What did this e-mail contain but a the ability to read the first 2 issues of their upcoming book in beautiful full colored goodness.  Which to me is something very cool.  I mean the chance to read a book early so that I can let people know whether it is good or not BEFORE it comes out rather than after.  Something that can help a good book gain sales before it even comes out.  Or the other way around for a bad book.

Comic Review – The Stuff of legend

Writers: Mike Raicht and Brian Smith

Artist: Charles Paul Wilson III

Publisher:Th3Rd World Studios

Back in May on Free Comic Book Day I picked up and did a review of the Stuff of Legend preview book that was released. It was with out a doubt the most memorable and enjoyable comic from this years selection. So much so,that I had to find out what happened next in the book and ordered the book at my local comic shop. I was a bit put of at first because the comic was quite expensive but I know it’s an independent title and its so obvious that a lot of love and attention has been put into creating a comic like this. About 2 weeks back the comic showed up and flicking through the book make me excited about reading it but whilst I can read some comics any where, this was a comic deserving of my attention and time and I wanted to set aside a day where I could take the time to enjoy it. So on to my review.

The Dark – Comic Review

Writer: Chris Lynch

Art: Rick Lundeen

The first issue of “The Dark” will be released in August of this year as a digital comic book, via iTunes, with three more issues in the pipeline. A graphic novel is planned for later in the year.

The Dark is the story of Daniel Abbot, a brilliant young scientist on the fringes of the establishment and the creator of Memetech – a technology that encodes information and memories into a liquid form, allowing anyone to “drink” the information. Terrified that his invention will be used for military purposes he decides to destroy his research, but not before he takes one last trip … with disastrous results.

The Dark has echoes of the Matrix about it but rather than having to sit in a chair with a bloody great spike getting rammed into the back of your skull you just need a slick black ‘Darkman style’ overcoat and a smart ass AI construct called Howard Hughes.

Look past the technology on show in the comic and you get a classic origin story involving a guilt ridden scientist trying to right the wrongs of the world while trying to atone for his own personal sins.

The art was solid and combined with snappy dialogue made for some cool fight scenes. I specially liked the loading of different skills sets on the fly to deal with the appropriate situation and be able to fire ‘pure information’ darts at people.

The plot was solid and I loved the idea of ‘liquid information’ and as is the case with so many revolutionary ideas how easily  this technology  can be corrupted.

Overall I thought the Dark  was a great, fast read and I’m looking forward to seeing how the story develops.

GS Reporter: Nuge

Beautiful Creatures

Beautiful Creatures #1 of 2 written by Kurt J Wiebe, art by Ash Jackson, colouring and letters by Frank Zigorelli.  Published by Red 5 Comics

 The story opens with a guy standing on the top of the Eiffel Tower fighting inner demons and a realisation about himself, he ends up plummeting from the tower and starting to burn.

Amber’s Review & News: Gotham City Sirens #2

Amber’s Reviews & News – Blackest Night 1

In first of her video columns  to appear on the GS website Amber does an in depth review of issue 1 of DC’s event of the year, Blackest Night!