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I Am Legend:  A Graphic Novel Based on the Richard Matheson classic By Jacob Malewitz He smiles. He is last living person on Earth. His name is Richard Neville, a character who, in Richard Matheson’s original classic novel, chain smoked cigarettes, drank liquor, and had to isolate himself from the world. The Steve Niles (“30 Days of Night”) adaptation of “I Am Legend” has to be one of the most detailed graphic novels since Alan Moore’s “Watchmen.” Actually, it reads too much like a novel, with huge sections of text on almost every page. It has been said, one image can say a thousand words. Sometimes, one word can do what a thousand images cannot. Though detailed, this graphic novel is far from boring. Steve Niles pens a piece that is monumental in scope, and that should satisfy horror fans who missed its original release over a decade a go. Perhaps not timeless, “I Am Legend” reevaluates the old tale of one man against many. It’s the well-known tale of a man battling odds, hi...

Transformers Spotlight Soundwave: The classic stories hit the printed page by Jacob Malewitz, Grey in Jacket Andrew Benton, out clothing The classic series Transformers reaches print again, focusing on the Decepticon warrior Soundwave. This comic also features a preview of the upcoming Transformers prequel series to be launched prior to the movie. His name, Soundwave. He’s no Optimus Prime or Megatron, but he was one of the more intriguing characters in the Transformers mythos. “He trusts no one and no one trusts him,” the Transformers Spotlight opens with. “He appears to serve the Decepicon’s cause but serves himself first and foremost. Charged with policing the pumps and processors of his fellow Decepticons, he does so with zeal. To him, knowledge is power.”

A Career In Journalism By Jacob Malewitz Many top writers started their careers in the field of journalism. Ernest Hemingway worked his way into print first as a newspaper writer. Mark Twain wrote stories of local color for a long time,  pieces that were apt to amuse, and did it all before working on his masterpiece “Huckleberry Fin.” Even more modern writers like Richard Yates and Stephen King, whom should never be mentioned in the same sentence, first started out writing for their school papers. It never amounted for the career for these writers: Hemingway and the others became novelists, short story writers, and, in Twain’s case, travel writers as well. Making a career in journalism is less a road to choose and more an endeavor that happens upon many writers. To make a career in journalism little is needed except for the basic idea of what is news and what is opinion, how to write simply, and a workable way of forming sentences. We all have opinions, and making a career in...

New X-Men: E is for Extinction by Grant Morrison Acclaimed and infamous writer Grant Morrison pens X-Men in a way that is important for the history of the series. Fans of Wolverine and Cyclops, fans who thought the X-Men films were to nice, should start with this volume of New X-Men. Grant Morrison provides an interesting take on the X-Men mythos in an easy-to-read but dynamic E is For Extinction. Mutants face extinction, similar to the last X-Men film The Last Stand, and Morrison achieves a serious approach with enough hilarious one-liners to make this a great new beginning for X-Men comics. It is a chance to see all the old characters back together as a time. The old stories are not ignored, but this volume approaches genius in the way it brings together the stories without making the reader lost due to back story. The new threats in E is for Extinction are the sentinels and an insidious female, telepathic villain named Cassandra Nova. In the initial stages of the story, there...