James Hepplewhite Archives

On Tuesday, May 5th, Humanoids released a comics bundle through Groupees to benefit The Hero Initiative, and here's what you can get.

In lieu of a review, I figured I’d highlight my favorite stories from Metal Hurlant: Selected Works though Jerome Opeña’s story didn’t make the list.

In Armies by Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Picaret & Jean-Claude Gal, I finally found a comic that first saw publication in Metal Hurlant, back in the day when

Goodnight Paradise is a unique take on an all too common trope, well-drawn, and kind without erasing characters faults.

Spurred on by TKO's announcement that they'd donate half of any purchase made to a comic book store of the buyer's choosing, I bought two relatively safe

Programming note: Don’t worry about me. I’m lucky in that I keep the overhead low and my job put me on furlough. I’m okay. Comic shops aren’t so lucky. We

We poo-poo comics designed to be movie pitches, but what about the other way around? Alejandro Jodorowsky’s (The Incal, The Metabarons) tried for years to

I can’t remember what year I bought the first issue of Doctor Radar, but I know it was at C2E2, and I know it was at the Titan Comics booth. Judging by

I enjoyed reading Boom’s Buffy: The Vampire Slayer until they announced 'Hellmouth', a 10+ part crossover with Angel. Nothing against Angel’s creative

Let’s start with the obvious: Zainab Ahktar’s Shortbox’s first foray into the book market (Rosemary Valero-O’Connell’s Don’t Go Without Me) is a success.

It’s not often a good idea to count other people’s money, but after listening to Dinesh Shamdasani talk about how he’s spending his Valiant severance

“The one thing that will wash away all sins is if the books are really, really, really, really good.” -Dinesh Shamdasani, from a Multiversity interview

Hellboy Winter Special 2019 by Mike Mignola, Márk László, Dave Stewart, Chris Roberson, Leila del Duca, Michelle Madsen, Scott Allie, Andrea Mutti, Lee

December seems like the time to bury new releases, but there’s still good material. I return with two Dark Horse debuts and one art book from Titan. Kill

Wading into Boom’s #1s, or wading into Boom’s “in the midst of all these press releases about our first issues selling out three printings before a reader

I follow Adam Kubert on instagram and saw him post about not signing an industry-only Stan Lee tribute comic, and felt a way about it. Adam Kubert

A couple weeks ago, Wayne Alan Harold held a fire sale on P. Craig Russell’s Salome And Other Stories Fine Art Edition. I bought one then for $50, and

Another month, another couple first issues, plus a big European collection roundup. In this case, the big European collection is Humanoids reissuing

Dark Horse publishes a manga called The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. Kurosagi (writer: Eiji Otsuka, penciller: Housui Yamazaki) is a warm and funny

When Matthew Rosenberg writes on Twitter (2, 3) that writers share some responsibility to promote an upcoming work, he accurately describes the reality of

One of my favorite comics from this year (#5, if I’m counting) just got the axe. Writer Brian Schirmer announced Fairlady’s cancellation with this week's

Cry Havoc, the Image Comics series from Si Spurrier, Ryan Kelly, Matt Wilson, Lee Loughridge, Nick Filardi, Simon Bowland and Emma Price, released in 2016

I feel kinda bad putting new issues of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and The Life And Death Of Toyo Harada next to a stone cold classic of French science

I thought I’d never read the end of Monster. Humanoids released the first half of it in 2004 (they called it The Beast Trilogy), and no more followed.

I had some thoughts about two recent single issues and two recent collections. Black Hammer/Justice League #1: Of the now six Black Hammer spinoffs

I realized I missed writing lists occasionally, and in doing so, doing the fun work of cutting the wheat from the chaff of what I enjoyed. These are my

Chicago Comics (started in 1991) survived a vandalization episode on June 30th. I’ve shopped there more than a couple times, and I like their selection

I don’t believe the Spider-Man comic deserves this outcry. Yes, Henry Abrams’s father, J.J. Abrams, got Henry in the door. It’s the worst parts of

In writing about comics, sometimes what we actually enjoy gets lost in the weeds. I wanted to do something quick that counteracted that. Thus: What’d you

Vertigo died a lot in the last ten odd years. You could say Vertigo died the year between 2000 and 2010 that Alan Horn demanded changes to the famously