Young Liars #9 Hits THE SPLASH PAGE

You can't tell by this image, but the final cover of Young Liars #9 features a pull quote by none other than me. It's just one more step in my long walk toward unprecedented fame and fortune.

Sure, I'm not credited with the quote, but that doesn't mean I didn't write it. And sure, people probably aren't going to search for the relevant review and find out which brilliant CBR writer penned such an evocative and precise line of criticism, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't.

Let's face it. I'm a pretty big deal.

You know who else is a big deal: Chad Nevett. And when he and I get together to discuss Young Liars #9, it's like an epic battle of greats doing great things while wallowing in their greatness.

You should check out this week's Splash Page to see it all.

Or click away: HERE.

Young Liars #8 Review

Recently reviewed by me at CBR: Young Liars #8, about which I write the following sentences: "'Young Liars' #8 continues the trend of the deranged and impossible, but the actual events of the issue are tempered by a narration that may explain something about the larger scope of the series. Or maybe not. It's impossible to say if Lapham is aiming for a true sci-fi world of wonder, or if these screwed up characters have lost all sense of reality. Is Sadie in a coma, dreaming about spiders from mars? Is Annie an agent of an alien power? Is there more to Danny than we ever expected? Lapham raises these questions directly, but makes us suspicious of the answers based on the context. He's created a series of unreliable narrators in 'Young Liars' -- which is no surprise, I guess, given the very title of the series -- but in doing so, he has created the kind of Vertigo series we haven't seen in years."

Read the entire review HERE.

Young Liars #6 Review

Recently reviewed by me at CBR: Young Liars #6, about which I write the following sentences: "Here we have a comic in which each character has a clearly established quirk and probably one or more dark secrets. See the self-loathing anorexic, see the drug-addled transvestite, see the trust-fund thief, see the girl with the bullet in her brain, see the lover who put it there. And so on. Lapham takes the Lynchian (incest, clowns, Pinkertons) and the Tarantino-esque (non-linear narrative, pop culture arguments, axes to the skull) and throws them all together with these deeply flawed characters. It's not dull. It's not like any other Vertigo comic. But it also feels a bit hollow."

Read the entire review HERE.