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'The World of Black Hammer' could prove to be a cinematic sleeping giant.

Best Comic of the Week: Hollow Heart #1 – Paul Allor and Paul Tucker caught my eye with their Tet series at IDW some years back, and Tucker has come to TCAF at least once, where I bought some of his self-published work, and so I was predisposed to like this book.  It’s about El, which is either a giant robot with a human-like pink skull, or a form of cyborg, or something.  El is kept in a high tech facility from which he keeps trying to escape.  Mateo is a tech who works on him, and starts to develop sympathy for him, hoping to help him escape.  There’s not a lot revealed in this fi...

Best Comic of the Week: Rain Like Hammers #1 – Brandon Graham has a way of creating worlds that are completely incredible, but also feel very relatable.  In this new series, he gives us Eugene, a worker in a moving city who doesn’t appear to have any friends or much purpose.  He’s new to Elephant, having worked hard to get this posting, but now finds it pretty isolating and disenchanting.  Graham never explains why all people seem to live on these roving cities, but when one of them suffers a catastrophe, we get to see more of how society appears to operate.  Eugene’s days of sitt...

What They Say: With a borrowed face, shapeshifting Martian hero Barbalien explores the gay night scene and a buried part of himself. But his fractured identity takes another hit when he comes into conflict with his new friends, his fellow police officers, and the murderous lunatic who followed him to Earth. Origin story for Barbalien. Art by Gabriel Hernandez Walta (New Mutants, X-Men)! Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers): While Mark Markz character was pretty well defined in the main Black Hammer series, I don’t think anyone expected that his own m...