Image Announce Dark Skullkickers Dark #1
Frequent collaborators on mysteriously short-lived Image projects, Jim Zub and Edwin Huang have been announced as the creative team for a new issue #1 from Image in June, Dark Skullkickers Dark #1. And that's not...
The strange tale of SULLIVAN’S SLUGGERS
This one is like one of those baseball games that goes into the 17th inning, long and murky with no real payoff.
On the Scene: ‘The Cartoonist in Comics’ at Housing Works with Haspiel, Fingerman, Gulledge,...
Autobiographical comics used to be a feature of zines and small private presses, but readers are increasingly able to follow their favorite genre of the comics medium in graphic novel editions from mainstream book...
Advance Review: Viva Lost Vegas #1 (spoiler-free!)
Reuniting the team behind the Eisner award winning Return of the Dapper Men, Lost Vegas is a fun mix of science fiction space play and hustler inspired shenanigans Oh, and it is very, very pretty.
Writer Jim McCann...
ECCC ’13 Liveblogging Skybound: On the Rise
It's almost time for the Skybound: On the Rise panel at the Emerald City con.
We'll be liveblogging it, so get ready to start hitting reload.
Our cast: Charlie Adlard, Ryan Ottley, Brandon Sieffert and Joshua Williamson.
A...
Monkeybrain Comics coming to print from IDW and Image
In a move that is the opposite of a shock, some of the titles from the digital-first Monkeybrain imprint are coming to print at IDW, starting in June. The line will kick off with founder Chris Roberson's EDISON REX and continuing with AMELIA COLE AND THE UNKNOWN WORLD, RED LIGHT PROPERTIES and more.
Advance Review: Uncanny Skullkickers #1 tests out The Adjective of Power
Uncanny is such a strange word to use to describe a comic, much less a range of different comics which tend to feature characters who aren't unexpectedly familiar - they're the X-Men and Avengers,...
Review: Completely Happy!
The concluding issue of Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson's Happy! has finally made its way to the shelves, and has seemingly divided critics right down the middle. It's perhaps no surprise to anyone who...
GREAT PACIFIC #4 gets a Phantom Variant
Continuing the tradition of Phantom Variant covers from the semi-secret Phantom Variant retailer group—as opposed to the totally secret and nonexistent Ghost Variant retailer group—Joe Harris's GREAT PACIFIC #4 will have a Phantom Variant cover by regular artist Martin Morazzo, which is also an homage to the classic Y
REVIEW: On the Road with Paul Pope’s THE ONE TRICK RIP-OFF +DEEP CUTS
For those savvy enough to have read Paul Pope’s (BATMAN: YEAR 100, HEAVY LIQUID, BATTLING BOY in 2013) ONE TRICK RIP-OFF when it first appeared serially in DARK HORSE PRESENTS from 1995 to 1996,...
Review: Thief of Thieves Vol. 1 – “I Quit.”
Thief of Thieves is an interesting book before you even get around to reading it. This is a comic where Robert Kirkman channels his TV writer's room experience and acts like a showrunner. The credits...
Preview and Interview: 5 GHOSTS with Frank Barbiere and Chris Mooneyham
5 GHOSTS is a new genre-splicing series premiering with Image Comics on March 20th, 2013 from writer Frank Barbiere (recently of THE WHITE SUITS series in Dark Horse Presents) and artist Chris Mooneyham (ANATHEMA)....