Rare Flavours, the next miniseries Ram V and Filipe Andrade debuted in August. Kind of. BOOM! released an ashcan (black and white only comic, with lettering from Andworld Design) called Rare Flavours #1 Tasting Menu Ashcan.
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Debuting at San Diego Comic Con 2023, The Devil’s Cut is an 80-odd page sampler of presumably forthcoming series from DSTLRY.
Shelly Bond’s comics memoir (or is it an autobiography, drawn primarily by Imogen Mangle and guests?), Fast Times In Comic Book Editing, evokes the feeling of a time gone by.
Dinesh Shamdasani talked to us about Lewis LaRosa, Laura Martin, Megalith, and what he'd like to do about that Valiant-shaped hole in his heart.
If there’s a feeling The Metabaron Book 4: The Bastard & The Proto-Guardianess conjures most strongly it’s diminishing returns.
Whatever my reservations about the series’ gratuitous use of main character Joanna Tan’s bare breasts, Gun Honey Blood For Blood surprised me at almost every turn.
If McKay can keep Ferry drawing neat looking demons and dragons, Doctor Strange #1 will be something to keep an eye on.
Here’s a short interview with Chrissy Williams, writer of Golden Rage, comics editor, and poet. We talk (err, type) about a couple of scenes.
Bartosz Sztybor writes a grim, twisting story about, well, promises and lies. The phrase “you have my word” is a recurring line.
Richard Sala’s The Chuckling Whatsit is a witch’s brew of monsters, sinister grotesques, and noir. It’s also my introduction the (now dead) artist’s prodigious Fantagraphics bibliography.
The plot of Batman - One Bad Day: Catwoman #1: Catwoman chases a bauble of dubious provenance and tremendous value.
If you’ve seen a funny spy movie, you have an idea what’s coming in Spy Superb #1: Put Jay into trouble and watch him slapstick comedy his way out of it.
Golden Record by Rosemary Valero-O'Connell is an opulent poetry chapbook (written in English and Spanish) published by Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club.
Largely, Carmilla moves briskly. It’s roughly 100 pages, and never overstays its welcome...Carmilla deftly hits all the suspenseful notes.
Orc Island is a delight. It follows a fairly classic adventure formula: a street urchin or sell-sword signs up for adventure with the promise of riches and gets more than they bargained for.
Vampirella Year One #1 is a great place to gamble on jumping into reading Vampirella
Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise #1 is a visually arresting first issue that recalls the work of P. Craig Russell and Phillipe Druillet.
The Roadie #1’s plot, briefly: A roadie for the metal band Mass Acre discovers he has a daughter and eventually chooses to save her.
Ghost Rider: Vengeance Forever #1 is a fun, dumb comic. It's exquisitely realized from Avatar Press alum Juan José Ryp.
It’s foolish to deny Gun Honey: Blood For Blood #1’s charms: A beautiful woman plus firearms.
Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus Volume 5 is about a group of mediocre Japanese divinity school students who solve crimes with supernatural elements.
Grim #4 delighted me with spectacle. The very first panel is a splash of a monstrous tower in the afterlife, and in the next page, the crew jumps off of it.
At bottom, the oversized Predator #1 is an adventure/war comic in which, unsurprisingly, lots of soldiers die and staying alive is a good outcome.
Mind MGMT: Bootleg #2 reunites the Crimson Flower team of Matt Kindt and Matt Lesniewski. In this issue, another recruit (this time in India) is brought aboard.
In Blacksad: They All Fall Down • Part One, there is finally a challenger for most gorgeous comic of 2022.
In Out Of Body, the detective (Dan Collins, a psychotherapist) is on life support, unable to figure out who attacked him.
In WWE The New Day: Power Of Positivity, Evan Narcisse and Austin Walker enjoy the sports genre. If there’s a trope they don’t use, it’s not for lack of trying.
The Rush serves as a perfectly good monster story with obvious themes of delusion and obsession in a setting that seems underutilized.
The Legend Of Luther Arkwright. That’s it. That’s the sentence. There’s more Luther Arkwright, and it’s exactly as humanist and anti-fascist as you’d hope.
Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: Time Is A River follows a 2020 Hellboy story from the Hellboy Winter Special called “The Miser’s Gift”.