Reviews

After James Bond became a major sensation in the early ’60s, spy movies became massive hits. This led to a wave of TV shows with secret agents showing up every week to look cool and save the world. Every channel seemed to have a double agent. The list included Mission:

Before getting into this column, I wanted to take a moment to apologize to my readers. I’ve been writing these Retro Review columns for a number of years now, and to do so, I read a comic a day, and then jot down my thoughts. These last months have been

Anime is more diverse in genre than just action films involving robots and fighting creatures. Tonikawa: Over The Moon For You is a romance series (based on a Manga of the same name). The series is about a guy who marries a woman who saved him during an accident. Can

Poliziottesco became the hot wave in Italian cinema in the wake of Dirty Harry dominating the global box office. But then a second American film arrived to alter the cop genre once more. The French Connection gave a cat and mouse game involving a cop going after a heroin operation.

Best Comic of the Week: Blow Away #4 – So far, this series has been about a nature photographer who has become obsessed with the possibility that she’s witnessed a murder while watching two men climb a remote mountain in the Canadian Arctic. This issue, she’s taken matters into her