Duna Haller Comic Reviews

A Thing Called Truth kicks off as a vibrant thing, a swarm of emotions, a story with a punch that is impossible to ignore. Pick it up this November!

Amy Reeder takes on writing, art and colour duties (with Gabriela Downie in lettering) in a brilliant new reinvention of this character, which subverts most of the magical girl narratives. The idealized fantasy transformation of a child into an adult in a fantasy world turns into an adolescent who doesn't magically grow and also doesn't live an stereotypical adventure of the right versus the wrong. The moving and compelling art easily makes this first chapter shine like a precious gem.

A solid follow up to #1 with big emotional weight and some adorable character moments. The story and the emotion in the art has moved me to the point I can't wait to keep following Amy, Phoss and Elba to their next adventures!

Overall, this was a passing issue in the middle of a captivating story, but by itself not telling much and with some lacks in characterization and plot holes that make us want to place it with later issues to see where the story goes.

Amy Reeder's art and how it relates to the emotional narrative highlights this story every time, and it's what ultimately makes it appealing and engaging, even when I find it with lack of variance or other plots different than the main one: Amy's journey of disillusion and facing the real world.

Get ready for the beginning of a story about fresh starts, love and mutant condition in Astonishing X-Men's #48, the starter of a new intriguing status quo and an exploration of some characters' deep grounds.

(Liu, Perkins) A thrilling second issue of this arc that is excellent when it comes to personal conflict and aftermath, with art that matches the dark tone this story is setting.

A beautifully done and hard to digest issue, where emotional weight, tragedy and tension are achieved in practically all of it, both in the script and in the art.

A gamechanging issue for LGBT+ representations in comics, its impact and its content has left a mark that is profound and worth revisiting. It's also an incredibly crafted and engaging one.

A deep exploration of the trauma and survivorhood of Karma, that deeplyrespects anddevelopsthe character, and uses the main story arcto dig into different experiences of oppression and pain.

Quintessential X-Men masterpiece, even on a rush schedule, on a run so close to cancellation, Liu and Pinna play with community, thriving in the face of marginalization, and the enjoyment of sharing life with those around you brilliantly. What most makes X-Men comics shine as a light to marginalized community gets combined here with a passion for showing and making these characters grow.

If you ever wished you were part of the X-Men, or write X-Men fanfic, or were driven to X-Men as a child by a sense of being lonely and marginalised, this issue will captivate you and possibly make you cry.

b.b. free handles every issue more like a love & care letter to oppressed kids, like a story of finding your own strength and owning it. It gives us some of the most important moments in representation, and the art moves emotionally with the story. It's a captivating, fun and fantastical read that I feel is important we look up to, both readers and creators.

A gorgeous work of art, narrating an intriguing story and the equally intriguing psyche of captivating characters. Sometimes too much of a work of art, other times perfectly there, but with both a set up and a conclusion that are more than satisfying.

Punch and emotion collide perfectly, and this story promises. Let's see how much of the nuance can be translated into the page.

Definitely a heartwarming and pretty nuanced conclusion for a great tale, even with the pitfalls it necessarily needed to grapple with. I definitely would love to see more DC Comics take this route of deconstruction of and care for its mentally ill characters.

Children of the Atomtakes the classic "teenage mutant superheroes" X-Men storyline and places it in the Krakoan context for an engaging conflict perfectly executed by a shining creative team.

With Children of the Atom, Vita Ayala is taking their time in each of the characters and carefully constructing the wider storyline. And, while that unfolds, the creative team on this issue has probably given us one of the most emotionally impacting stories about the need of being recognized, with a character that feels so relatable and third-dimensional that I can already say Carmen is one of my favorite characters without hesitating a bit.

Overall, this issue was a drag for me, but a lot of CotA depends on how the themes that Ayala is laying here pay off, so it's a let's wait and see.

Crush and Lobo #1 walks exaggeration, self-reference, drama and comedy lines gracefully, as the set-up for this gay angst drama comes directly for us with the strongest vibes.

A nonchalant, ironic, emotionally touchy, overall awesome, dive deep into space, and well, into Crush's crushing! Can't wait for next issue!

Crush and Lobo #8 is a powerful ending that digs deep into Crush as a character and as a reflection of carried trauma. Im gonna miss this series and I kind of already want it back.

Adorable, emotionful and immensely important short story that puts Harlivy in its place as the cutest girlfriends of DC, and that goes to the necessary lengths to make them justice. Overall, really happy about this, and, if you're a fan of them, there's no way you won't enjoy it!

A necessary and endlessly fun story where chosen family takes the form of Harley and Ivy modeling a healthy love for a confused Crush. This creative team and this trio has so much potential that I hope we can see them meet again.

The execution is fun with an excellent artistic team vibrantly dressing up the story and the references it gets into will make more than one fan smile, but the bottom line of what you will get reading this story is: they're not even gonna kiss when they die together. And most of the gays in this anthology are dead anyway.

With an incredible atmosphere and an stellar cast, Doctor Who Comic #1 starts slowly but planting the seeds of the kind of story that could easily thrill us and move our hearts.

Bountiful Garden stretches the realms of terror to fuse space horrors, familiar anxieties and captivating characters, wrapped up in dazzling art. A must you should pick up in your LCS this Free Comic Book Day, or on September 8th in all platforms!

A cinematographic and dark story about companionship, guilt and pain that promises to carry us to mysterious places, while being close to our hearts.

For Molly is proving itself an interesting story with a mythos that captivates and captures the reader. The dogs' designs, expressiveness and relationships within this fantasy world give strength to a story still to be unwrapped.

For Molly #3 is a delightfully complex, visually enchanting issue with a strong emotional gravitas and a lot of exposition. We cant wait to see where this story leads.

In this first issue of Kara Zor-El: Superwoman, Sauvages original, expansive and gorgeous art sets the basis for pivoting Bennetts deep character deconstruction around grief, rage, understanding and growth.

The character exploration that this miniseries has crafted with Kara Zor-El arrives, after some punches here and there, to a beautifully thriving ending, with the majestically beautiful art highlighting every note.

Getting it Together is the precious work of creating from experiences, collaboration, detailed design and coloring, with inspiration and alikeness to sitcoms and other forms of media, but ultimately bringing something unique to comics. This wrap up makes the story interesting and defying, and the story itself, while still unfolding, isn't afraid of getting into some gritty territories as it explores the riskiness of things like friendship, sex or romance.

Getting it Together #2 comes with high stakes and a constant conflict that, thanks to its detailed, effective and expressive art, drags you to the center of it. Be aware!

A multifaceted last issue that touches deep into the process of creativity itself and the relationship between its characters, and that makes me eager to see more of these characters and their lives moving forward.

Sina Grace and Siobhan Keenan, with help from Cathy Le, Jeremy Lawson, DC Hopkins and Lea Caballero, round up a dark and plot-centered issue of Ghosted in L.A, while keeping their work full of emotional development and treating their characters with compassion and understanding of their emotions. Honestly, get to date and pick up Ghosted cause you're not gonna see this much character work and thoughtful arc-worth plots in a lot of comics!

This issue of Ghosted in L.A. is the best of this series exaggerated to a ten: funny, melodramatic, exploring dark and traumatic issues with innuendos, gay, hot, and a roller coaster. Get ready cause there's no way this won't let you with your mouth wide open!

The narrative climax of Ghosted in L.A. explored here, and there's a weight to it that shines a light on our characters as faulty humans in an emotionally difficult situation. The Slice-Of-Life art gets darker, the party gets stopped and we're left with a lot of feelings to deal with. And, to be honest, lot of them are "I wish this series wouldn't end with #12".

A beautiful graphic story for trans kids to see themselves in and trans adult to deal with some of their memories, and a narrative that connects with fears, hopes and community with art that exudes emotion and invites the reader into the tale. Not a book for people to learn about trans issues, but a book designed for trans (and gender-questioning) people to let a tale into your heart.

My Name Is is perfect resignification, sagacious criticism of capitalism, & a great taste of an amazing horror anthology, out this Wednesday at Mad Cave Studios.

Pay The Piper rings out the terrifying catharsis of justice by a piper that delivers a kind of demonic liberation. From the real evil of greedy landlords.

Overall, Im more than impressed with this creative team, and the guest star narrative of this issue works absolutely in favor of it, even within Phillips larger narrative, to take a breath of fresh air that is gonna make a fan of any of the two characters smile. With cat/hyena metaphors and all. Oh, and the nod to Red in the ending is absolutely sweet. Can't wait to see that followed up.

Harley Quinn #9 is a beautifully heartwarming issue around fear, love & affection that hits brilliant notes.

An emotive issue filled with character depth and the most gorgeous, playful art. Let's see where this goes and hope that at the end isn't a long-lived situation.

A weak issue that lacks plot work, tries to be funny in awkward ways and makes me miss the story beats from prior in this run.

A lot of great ideas but kind of directionless (or at least stumbling in its direction) issue, and Keepsake doesn't seem particularly scary, compelling or interesting for a villain.

Legion of Bats! #1 is bombastic, clever, hilarious, intriguing and everything else. And it definitely is for the delight of the Harlivy fans!

So eager to see where Legion of Bats! goes, as this sweet, sexy, emotional journey continues, now with a fitting villain, a fitting scene, and a stronger purpose.

There's a lot of variety in this comic book, with tons of fun, depth and interesting stories. Really worth checking out if you're a fan of the Animated Series and/or you enjoyed Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour.

This book is an uplifting and engaging story, filled with LGBT+ teen positivity and romance and a vibrant style you won't want to miss. Even with it being a follow up to an equally great volume, said volume is not necessary to enjoy this engaging story set in the birth of digital music sharing.

This comic is gonna shatter your comfort zone with a story that feels like truth and shines as fiction. The scars showed here were ones that I instantly recognized and connected with, and I can only recommend you let them move you.

Hellions ends its first arc in a traumatic but bonding conclusion, combining bloody and raw art with dark coloring with an issue in which everyone has their heart a little tore apart. The story clearly calls back to Louise Simonson and Chris Claremont's Summers drama in "Inferno," and the tribute and themes it takes focusing in Havok, the ignored brother, and Madelyne, the unreal girl, is bittersweet and perfect.In the middle of a Krakoan reboot era that makes it impossible to tidy all loose ends or explore all characters, Zeb Wells makes sure we understand this team's growing bond deeply, and that Madelyne's loose end is tied closely, even showcasing the Quiet Council's hypocrisy and imperfection.The dysfunctional-but-clear-bond between these characters finally explodes when they all laugh together as they are "a bunch of crazy sons of %$!&!". There's a certain joy here for me as someone with a mental illness and survivor of systemic mental health abu

Zeb Wells is putting out the most fun and engaging outcasts X-book possible, and with Carmen Carnero and David Curiels realistic and precious art approach, it fits as perfectly and strangely as its cast. Plus, its subverting the narrative of the event on the nose. And I like how obvious it is at that.

Hellions #6 is, simply put, one of the bloodiest and most violent issues of mutants history. What comes after this?

With gloomy art and blunt grittiness, Hellions moves its narrative ahead with a few surprises, but mostly staying comfortable. For now.

Immortal She-Hulk is a great drama of majestic proportions, and the death on it holds immense weight, the only weakness being a wish of a less Hulk-like-defined Jenn. And even with that, this issue has walked an important mile in Jenn's characterization that I hope really sticks around.

As this fun to the extreme rides plays with classic sci-fi tropes in a queer messy soup, it also promises larger themes further down the road. Can't wait to see where Alex and Max take their journey.

Get ready for a vibrant deep read, as this 60-pages issue will pull your attention to it by its original and punk-ish art and sincere and relevant writing and characters. This isn't about conclusions, it's about life and how we get by with it.

The deconstruction of the rock n roll myth, a story about a boy ate by his traumas and a tribute to our teenage bands. Black Mask Studios got out Last Song #2 to prove this mixed formula is actually amazing.

Never has setup and character work benefited a comic so much as this issue. With all the pieces in place, Interlandi shakes them up in every turn, showcasing beautifully a complex queer love story and a lot of friendship difficult stories that come to life in some of the most beautiful grey art I have seen, with raw emotions when it's due, and wonderful detail and texture the times it's needed.

Last Song ends its rough story with a reminder of what it means to choose life in the presence of death, depression and trauma, and it does so with infinite care and love.

Visaggio and Aguirre create a sci-fi futuristic story that prays tribute to our everyday tribulations and preciousness. With a great depiction of a breakdown that will change our main character's life, it takes us away from the stars to look into our emotions.

A fast-paced story, but one that promises to take us on a revolutionary trip of growth and breaking with preconceptions of the world (both in personal and social ways). We're eager to see what Visaggio and Aguirre have for us next.

For a story so heavily centered in future utopias, with space soap opera design, it's a bold move to put such a harsh criticism on the colonialist and homophobic roots of a society based solely on science and progress. While at the same time showing that same struggle in a personal way and how we internalize these ideas. Most I got from this is just brilliant ideas, with a very fitting context.

This comic puts in front of us difficult realities about persistent problems in our society, placing them in the context of a futurist sci-fi vision too usually associated with utopias. And, yetwith all the knots left to tie in before the last issue, they make a relevant point that needs to be heard.

Epistolar ending crafted beautifully to round up a story that makes criticism of itself and gets into some common places with a lesson to it, or at least a feeling of connection and love to take from it.

Theres a lot of fun wits and dramatically tense ideas on this issue. Sadly, the characters forced chemistry, the rigid pacing and structure, and a shifting but not emotionally cohesive art make it fall as a filler in the XoS greater narrative.

A Luta Continua, A Tale From The Venomverse is a brilliant work of speculative fiction that puts together the real-life #EndSARS protests with a superhero team against police brutality, with astounding writing & art.

It is not a secret that Monstress is a series that knows its characters and has a deep emotional depth and breathtaking art. But this miniseries is capable of taking that in the context of small tales to get them to their full potential, with a testament to sharing hopeful moments, stories and memories with each other in troubling times.

An issue that deals with teenager crushes, social belonging, hurt feelings, compassion, and some fashion defiance! What I would call a memorable superhero comic... Well, see ya around! Its been real!

New Mutants#64 is one of the most heartfelt and empathetic visual stories about grief, and it couldn't be done in a better way than this. I'm grateful for this comic that has accompanied me in all unfairnesses.

New Mutants #31 sets up an exciting, complex and adventurous beginning for the very queer next generation of mutants. Plus, creative team of Charlie Jane Anders and Alberto Alburquerque might be the Louise Simonson and Bret Blevins to Vita Ayala and Rod Reis direct take on Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewiczs legacy; all filtered through Grant Morrisons impact on the X-Men universe. The best of a fresh and modern story with a care for the creatives that came before them. Im so excited to see this comic unfold further.

As New Mutants #32 continues the adventure, sets the stage and ups the stakes in classic New Mutants fashion, the pacing might get a little too fast (as we're faced with big consequences and the end of this arc nearby), but the spirit and the heart of these characters continues to be heartwarming and well-developed, as well as the philosophical and mutant politics themes keep being the center of a really interesting arc with a fantastic creative team.

New Mutants #33 is an emotional, impactful, but also clumsy and abrupt ending, to a run that should have continued and made its trans and queer characters a main part of X-Comics.

A heartwarming start to a promising adventure for new and old generations of New Mutants, bringing queerness front and center with adorable and relatable characters.

Nightmare in Savannah is a terrifying & charming tale for queer weird teens everywhere, & for adults that have those same memories and are reckoning with them. A perfect fit to preorder this Halloween.

An innovative piece of art that, through enchanting visuals and a radio station's buzz at its center, becomes a story that you can feel. It definitely takes some narrative risks, and I'm intrigued to see where it would follow said risks.

A captivating story that mixes the supernatural and striking with familiarity and cuteness. It gets deep into our main character and her feelings, getting to know her very well even in a short self-concluding one shot.

Overall, the whole issue feels like an innovative candy or a song that you're gonna love to repeat, and that's probably gonna be even more satisfactory if you love Archie nostalgia combined with the playful impudence this run exudes. It's surely a wild ride to the past, and it gives us a completely different take on the interaction between these characters that seems plausible, fun, and defining of them.

An effective hot-summer-desert mood issue, but also a slow and storybuilding lacking one. The art really helps get in the mood of Drakulon, and it leaves us hoping for more upfolding and storytelling as we move forward.

Sabretooth #1 is a gamechanger deal for a villain book, and the greatest start possible to a series taking a close look at punitive systems.

Sabretooth #2 continues to tell an intriguing tale rooted in history and injustice, with a grasp of characters and story that is delightful.

Sabretooth #3 thrills with story and history, community and tension, cruelty and compassion. One of the best books publishing right now.

Every page of this book serves the maximum effect possible, as the adventure of this renegade team of outcasts leaves us with questions and threads that tie to eugenics, capitalism, solidarity and tons of messy blood.

Intriguing plot, fascinating characters and a tie to historical medical injustice against marginalized communities to continue telling the boldest Krakoan story, one that I'm eager to see unfold, as the theme of eugenics looms over this book's ethos.

If you loved #1-14 of Snotgirl, this one delivers. You're gonna scream and laugh and cry with it I swear! If you're not caught up or starting to get into Lottieworld, all I wanna say is you're gonna eventually have get everything you want of this series. It's gonna get messy! Complicated! Gay! And certainly there's a mystery there! Plus the art is constantly astounding and even gets better!

Stohl stays true to its characters and sets up an effectively mysterious tone and story, with Ferreyra's art providing it with a rainy and jazzy visual soundtrack. With some of the greatest themes in Spider-Man present (like his need to do everything in his hands to help others), and some really sweet character interactions, the book promises a story that we're eager to see unfold.

A reflection of the damage of protocol, codes, meritocracy and a vertical scheme that looks at the flaws in Starfleet's ideals. An interesting read, whether or not you like or know much about the character, but more enjoyable if you have seen Star Trek: The Next Generation 6x11 & 6x12.

"Too Long a Sacrifice" promises, like the series is based on, a lot for past and future. It is a mystery noir story with wonderful character work that vibes with the dialogues. It has conflict that promises to be way more than what meets the eye. And it definitely is a posthumous tribute to Ren Murat Auberjonois' brilliant role that is done with care and love.

ReviewThis comic keeps presenting a master exercise in storytelling. From page one, it will get you right into it with the dialogue of beloved characters like Quark or Worf, that combines gracefully with the realist noir art to give you the exact impression of a discarded episode flowing through the pages. It uses this mechanism of pacing, dialogue, Odo's narration and familiarity of the characters to arrive to explosive moments of tension and beautiful phrases that condense the story, the conflict and its characters, like the moment between Garak and Odo where Garak highlights, in a detective way, how the station has countless secrets.The on-point characterization, intrigue and how the stakes are up are two of the strong points of this comic, but this same constant rising of stakes and the use of dead of secondary characters for shocking the narrative can desensitize the reader a little. Of course, the writers are aware of the meaning of this rising of stakes, so they give each of the

While the story follows an engaging noir formula with a deep knowledge of the lore and how to tell it, what it finally has to tell is less than convincing, engaging or relevant.

Theres a latent attitude that plagues every inch of Terminal Punks, and its as punk and raw as its expressive art and its monsters acute tale with an anxious protagonist.

The Seeds is a carefully constructed graphic novel about our relationship to technology and nature, journalism ethics, fake news, what we deemed to call 'alien', and many questions more. The complexity of the questions it poses to the reader makes you wanna reread it as soon as you arrive to its impacting ending.

The question what if superheroes were creepy murderous rich jerks?" has been asked numerous times. But Villainous offers a different, proactive, fresh answer.

World of Darkness: Crimson Thaw #1 thrills, terrifies and ups the stakes. Plus, it is delivering the fruits of some fantastic character work and design into a visually enchanting issue.

If you're a fan of the original run of New Mutants, let yourself enjoy the nostalgia and pull out a big smile while getting together some characters that is delightful to see interact. Keep your expectations around there, and this issue is definitely for you!