Comic & Graphic Novel Reviews

Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm
Vertigo Comics
w. Percy Carey
a. Ronald Wimberley

You may not be familiar with his music, but you've heard the name. Who is MF Grimm? Well, let's just say that without this man's poetic mind, many of your favorite rappers would still be living at home with their mothers. 'Sentences' is an enthralling autobiographical account of Percy Carey a.k.a. MF Grimm's rise to fame and the struggles he faced constantly being pulled into the world of gang violence. Honestly, I couldn't put this book down until I was finished. It's hip hop history at its rawest; from the days of the DJs and body-rockin' to the rise of the MC and the 'gangsta' movement.

Everybody's Dead
IDW Comics
w. Brian Lynch
a. Dave Crosland

David Crosland of 'Scarface: Scarred For Life' fame once again teams up with IDW to illustrate this zany Animal House meets The Living Dead type thriller. It's Halloween and the Beta Eta Delta house (formerly Omega House) is throwing the craziest costume party ever. After altercations with the beefcake Omega fraternity demanding their house back simmer down, all seems ok... But what happens when everyone's asleep will change their lives forever. Overall a fun read, this book brings some much needed humor into the current Zombie craze. I can't wait to see where they go with the rest of the story.

The Boys
Dynamite Comics
w. Garth Ennis
a. Darick Robertson

America's favorite superheroes are corrupt. Less and less concerned about the safety of the people and more worried about how they look on camera, they've gotten sloppy with their arrogance. So, how do you defend the world against the world's greatest defenders? And who could possibly be crazy enough to go up against these superheroes? One of the most brutal and raunchy books on the shelves right now, Garth Ennis' 'The Boys' spits on the idea that superheroes are flawless and throws them into a harsh reality full of corrupt business practices and sexual deviance. Perfect.

Chumble Spuzz
Slave Labor
by Ethan Nicole

If the Devil himself were to posess anything in the world, it'd probably be a pig. Better yet, a prize pig at a local carnival. Or at least that's the way writer and artist Ethan Nicole sees it in his psychoticaly hilarious and hard to put down new book 'Chumble Spuzz.' After winning a posessed pig at a carnival the two unlikeliest of heroes, Gunther and Klem team up with the trigger-happy duo of General Woodchuck and Kernal Corn Nut as well as the eccentric and evangelistic Reverand Mofo as they venture to hell to kill the devil. This has got to be one of the funniest books I've read in a long time.