Where do you go for Comic Reviews?

[DrewTheXenocide]

Hypothetically, lets say a certain someone was shifting around his pull list and seeing what titles were good right now. Where would this certain someone find the best non-biased, most objective reviews worth reading? Both online and in print.

[Gilda Dent]

The Fourth Rail (http://www.thefourthrail.com/).

Literate reviews, very careful on the spoilers, reviews cover both writing and art, and do so in context.

Gilda

[west3man]

For the most part, if CBR don't got it, I don't get it.

Besides, I'm not all that interested in comic book reviews unless I kinda know the person doing the review OR unless it's a bunch of folks chiming in.

Generally speaking, the opinions of 100 strangers is more useful to me than the opinion of 1.

It's all hit-or-miss, though.


And Gilda makes a good point. The risk of spoilers is so great that I tiptoe around reviews of just about any work of fiction unless I'm really, really unlikely to check it out, otherwise.

I've even learned to avoid interviews. The last few I've heard AFTER having seen the movies made me really, really glad I waited. My spoiler-o-meter is set a bit higher than most.

[Expletive Deleted]

There are a ton of comic blogs, and most of them do reviews of one sort or another.

Start off with a site like Comics Should Be Good (http://goodcomics.blogspot.com/) (which has a nice diversity of viewpoints) and work your way through their blogroll until you find something you like.

In the non-blog category, I like The X-Axis (http://www.thexaxis.com/). It's not exactly what you'd call non-biased or objective, though.

[howyadoin]

I'd much rather just talk to people about comics. If someone I know and whose opinion I generally agree with recommends a book, I'm a lot more likely to check it out than if some pseudojournalist recommends it.

[west3man]

I'd much rather just talk to people about comics. If someone I know and whose opinion I generally agree with recommends a book, I'm a lot more likely to check it out than if some pseudojournalist recommends it.
It's rare that there's a single person whose opinion on a comic means I've gotta scoop it up (although if there's someone who usually hates stories with Character X and they LOVE a particular story, I'm gonna be quite tempted).

Folks I'm mildly acquainted with... or just the "100 strangers" I mentioned earlier help me gauge these things. Sometimes knowing that THIS person likes it means I probably won't... and vice-versa. So, even that's helpful.

[dingo]

I just started contributing reviews to a blog / webcomic

http://smaxandpog.blogspot.com/

So, if I was you, I would go there ;)

Got a nice range of pellet to in depth reviews, but it only has just started so we are finding our feet at the moment.

[TheFourthRail]

The Fourth Rail (http://www.thefourthrail.com/).

Literate reviews, very careful on the spoilers, reviews cover both writing and art, and do so in context.Gilda

*Blush* Thanks for the kind words.

My favorite comics reviewers are Johanna Draper-Carlson (www.comicsworthreading.com), Paul O'Brien (www.thexaxis.com) and Greg McElhatton (www.icomics.com).

Of course, my site partner, Randy Lander, would be on the list as well, but he's semi-retired from the review game these days. :)

Don MacPherson
www.thefourthrail.com

[Suzanne]

I don't rely on reviews. If I read them, it's only after I buy the comic in question just to get their opinion. Otherwise, I decide on my own whether or not to buy something.

[thehod]

I'm with Suzanne on this one. Comics are still a (reletivly) cheap form of entertainment, so if I wanna find out if I'll like something I'll buy it, and if I don't like it, all I've lost is a couple of quid.

Compaired to games, or a cd or a film, where I could be out of pocket by anthying thing between ten to fourty notes.