William Messner-Loebs
Birth date: February 19, 1949
William Messner-Loebs's Books
Disclaimer: I was given a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Warning: This story deals with rape. [For more details scroll to the end of the review.] In 1994, a year after The Maxx was first published, I dropped out of high school and eventually ended up on the streets. It...
As the back of the book says: fun, wild, inventive, and often scary. I'll actually give it those, in about those proportions. I think it's hard to actually make a frightening comic (and will forever be glad that [b:Fall of Cthulhu, Vol. 1: The Fugue|1178358|Fall of Cthulhu, Vol. 1 The Fugue|Micha...
If you must read this, do yourself a favor: do not, under any circumstances, read it right after a Wonder Woman book by a writer like Perez, Rucka, or Simone. You know, a book that has good dialog, respect for the characters and their histories, and art that is neither hideously ugly nor exploitativ...
Ah, Elseworlds. Where Batman could be a vampire, Superman could be Russian, and Wonder Woman could be a Gibson Girl. Amazonia is set in an even more misogynistic version of Victorian England, ruled by King Jack. You see, Victoria and her entire family died in a mysterious fire, and her distant Ameri...
Not going to happen. Wonder Woman: The Contest was almost completely unbearable, and I just can't face another book from the same writer/artist team.