Peter Hogan

Hogan’s a show-off. He’s great, he does a great job here, but he’s a show-off. After a very tense opening, things gradually calm down and resolve. Sprouse and Story mostly do talking heads for the first third of the comic. Then comes this sequence with a presidential voiceover. At first it seems tedious–like Hogan’s trying […]

Comics by Andrew Wickliffe2 December 2013

Tom Strong and the Planet of Peril 5 (January 2014)

Tom Strange finally appears in the issue–which is good, since Hogan’s only got one left. Besides the opening, which features another new (or returning from a previous limited series) character, a lot of the issue is just the Toms talking. Tom Strange is set up on the moon (not sure why it was such a […]

Comics by Andrew Wickliffe2 August 2013

Tom Strong and the Planet of Peril 1 (September 2013)

So Planet of Peril turns out to be a sequel to the Terra Obscura series Hogan’s done. Those are great so I have high hopes for this one. And so far, Hogan doesn’t disappoint. He has Chris Sprouse and Karl Story on art so it’s good, but he also comes up with this great meta […]