https://nerdspan.com nerdy news for fangirls and fanboys Thu, 24 Oct 2013 02:15:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 https://nerdspan.com/comic-review-velvet-1/ https://nerdspan.com/comic-review-velvet-1/#comments Thu, 24 Oct 2013 02:15:53 +0000 Keith Hendricks https://nerdspan.com/?p=19936 It is 1973, and X-Operative 14 Jefferson Keller is assassinated. ARC-7 administration casts its sights wide for the culprit, and Velvet Templeton, the overqualified secretary to Director Manning, finds herself taking the fall, literally, for the crime. “My real life died a long time ago,” mulls Velvet, as she jumps through a window to escape [...]]]> https://nerdspan.com/comic-review-velvet-1/feed/ 0 https://nerdspan.com/small-press-spotlight-tales-to-admonish-1/ https://nerdspan.com/small-press-spotlight-tales-to-admonish-1/#comments Tue, 08 Oct 2013 17:14:58 +0000 Joe Grunenwald https://nerdspan.com/?p=19495 Short stories are in short supply in most comics nowadays. Occasionally DC or Marvel will put out an anthology comic. Those’ll set you back $8, and while often well worth it – the recent Time Warp anthology from Vertigo had some spectacular stories in it, for example – they’re still few and far between. In [...]]]> https://nerdspan.com/small-press-spotlight-tales-to-admonish-1/feed/ 0 https://nerdspan.com/graphic-novel-review-noir/ https://nerdspan.com/graphic-novel-review-noir/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:00:48 +0000 Joe Grunenwald https://nerdspan.com/?p=12236 The premise behind Dark Horse’s Noir is pretty simple: take some of the biggest names in the world of crime comics and put them in one spot. Each creator or creative team has up to ten pages to tell a self-contained story, and all of the stories are crime stories. With a collection of talent [...]]]> https://nerdspan.com/graphic-novel-review-noir/feed/ 0 https://nerdspan.com/going-indie-a-triple-threat-from-challenger-comics-part-two/ https://nerdspan.com/going-indie-a-triple-threat-from-challenger-comics-part-two/#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2013 02:49:48 +0000 Forrest C. Helvie https://nerdspan.com/?p=6459 Part 2: Paul Allor’s Orc Girl (a one-shot) In Part 1 of “Going Indie: A Triple Threat from Challenger Comics,” I provided a brief review of Ryan K. Lindsay’s Fatherhood #1.  Today, we turn our attention to a second comic from Challenger Comics: the critically acclaimed Orc Girl by Paul Allor.  Although Orc Girl contains [...]]]> https://nerdspan.com/going-indie-a-triple-threat-from-challenger-comics-part-two/feed/ 1 https://nerdspan.com/fatherhood/ https://nerdspan.com/fatherhood/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:25:08 +0000 Forrest C. Helvie https://nerdspan.com/?p=6371 Part 1: Ryan Lindsay’s Fatherhood #1 (a one-shot) Last month, NerdSpan featured an interview with indie creator, Jeremy Holt and a review of his creator-owned comics, Cobble Hill.  This month features a triple threat of three mini-reviews of comics from Challenger Comics—another independent comics imprint headed by Ryan Ferrier.  As stated on their website, Challenger [...]]]> https://nerdspan.com/fatherhood/feed/ 0 https://nerdspan.com/daredevil/ https://nerdspan.com/daredevil/#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:00:42 +0000 Forrest C. Helvie https://nerdspan.com/?p=2986 The Devil is in the Details (from Sequart Research & Literacy Organization, edited by Ryan K Lindsay) collects essays about Marvel’s Daredevil from some of today’s best writers about comics. It is slated to be published in early 2013, and Diamond order codes will be made available once solicited. Created in 1964, Matt Murdock has a [...]]]> https://nerdspan.com/daredevil/feed/ 0 https://nerdspan.com/review-mr-murder-is-dead/ https://nerdspan.com/review-mr-murder-is-dead/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:25:34 +0000 Joe Grunenwald https://nerdspan.com/?p=1875 Mr. Murder is Dead, the first graphic novel from Victor Quinaz and Brent Schoonover, is not the mystery you would expect it to be. Based solely on the title, it sounds like a standard ‘whodunnit’ about who killed the eponymous Mr. Murder. But from the very first page of the story, the reader knows who [...]]]> https://nerdspan.com/review-mr-murder-is-dead/feed/ 0