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Power Up Box Review: Star Wars, and Angry Birds, and Giant Pens, Oh My!

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I’ve been hesitant to dip my toes into the subscription box waters for a while now, and Power Up, a relatively new player in the geek & gamer gifts space, gave me the perfect opportunity. That’s right: they sent me a Star Wars themed box to review!

So is the monthly gift box subscription service worth it? And more importantly, should you check out Power Up when you try it? Let’s take a look, and see how you can save 10% with a Comic Book Herald exclusive coupon. [Read more…] about Power Up Box Review: Star Wars, and Angry Birds, and Giant Pens, Oh My!

How to Start a Comic Book Blog

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So you want to create your own website about comic books (or just about any other passion will do). Awesome! It’s a noble aim (not to be confused with A.I.M.), if I do say so myself. That said, I know very well that starting a blog can be an intimidating, confusing, and frustrating process. There’s all this technical know-how and paying money for things that gets in the way of just writing / creating / doing the comic book thing you love.

Let’s fix that: [Read more…] about How to Start a Comic Book Blog

GROOT #1 Review: “Raccoon and Tree Road Trip: What Could Go Wrong?”

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It would be too easy to write “I am Groot” several hundred times and call that a review (the temptation is there). However, this debut issue is such a multi-faceted delight that it demands in-depth attention. Featuring the breakout CGI characters of the Guardians of the Galaxy phenomenon in yet another “solo” effort, this story flips the buddy-pairing dynamic and puts Rocket in the back seat for once. While heart-warming and smile-inducing throughout, writer Jeff Loveness and artist Brian Kesinger also pepper in plenty of genuine laugh-out-loud moments. [Read more…] about GROOT #1 Review: “Raccoon and Tree Road Trip: What Could Go Wrong?”

SECRET WARS #3 Review: “Behind Doom Eyes”

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After clearing the decks and some involved establishing of the new status quo, this week’s installment lightly taps the actual plot of Secret Wars into play. The pieces may now all be on the shiny new board with parameters defined but how writer Jonathan Hickman will proceed from here is not yet an illuminated projection. Compacting back to regular-sized, “The Eye of Doom” crosses the line of scrimmage effectively in twenty pages but doesn’t deliver as satisfactorily as either of the previous chapters. [Read more…] about SECRET WARS #3 Review: “Behind Doom Eyes”

OLD MAN LOGAN #1 Review: “Days of MacGuffins Past!”

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Among the Secret Wars spin-offs this week is a revisitation of Mark Millar and Steve McNiven’s 2008 semi-classic, Old Man Logan, by writer Brian Michael Bendis and art/color team of Andrea Sorrentino and Marcelo Maiolo. Picking up the story of the once-and-future Wolverine, the new take straddles the fine line between sequel and “inspired-by” relaunch. Although still operating in the larger post-apocalyptic “Western drifter” genre, the “revenge flick” motives of the original are replaced with a central mystery. The premise is clearly spelled out but the debut suffers many moments of narrative confusion. [Read more…] about OLD MAN LOGAN #1 Review: “Days of MacGuffins Past!”