Mariko Tamaki and Natacha Bustos's Willow spinoff has been the best Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic in BOOM! Studios' reboot of the classic Joss Whedon series. It centers on Willow Rosenberg after the events of the Hellmouth crossover, as she goes on a road trip that leads her to a witchy community Abhainn. In this issue, Willow investigates her feelings […]
We have an earlier than expected look at Boom Studios' December 2020 solicitations, including the end of Lumberjanes, the launch of the Expanse comic book, a new Jim Henson's Masquerade and the conclusion of the Firefly event, Blue Sun Rising. And the third issue of BRZRKR… THE EXPANSE #1 (OF 4) DEC. 2 ON SALE […]
Like building a myth, page by page, Seven Secrets #2 is an amazing sophomore issue that manages to improve upon the sterling work done by its predecessor. A young child named Caspar is the child of a forbidden love, the direct scion of a secret order dedicated to keeping seven things safe and sequestered from […]
Every week your Local Comic Book Shop, hopefully, gets in a weekly assortment of comics, trades, posters, action figures, and other goodies from Diamond. Now some of these goodies sell out fast from your LCBS, so Tuesday and Wednesday LCBS retailers get on the phone (more often the computer) and let Diamond know they need more. […]
Roughly a year ago, Once And Future by Doctor Kieron Gillen and Not-A-Doctor Dan Mora was a frequent subject of conversation on this site. Not only was it the first (but not last) series to join Boom Studios' 50K Club, but it famously went through eight printings on the first issue. The second issue needed […]
It looks like Al Ewing has been cooking up something on the creator-owned side while also running Marvel's major summer event, Empyre, which saw the Cotati wage war on Earth with pretty much every major Marvel character tasked with defending it. We Only Find Them When They're Dead #1, Ewing's first-ever creator-owned series, boasts a concept that's almost […]
The Hellmouth event that ran in BOOM!'s rebooted Buffy the Vampire Slayer titles is finished, and the team is gearing up for the next storyline. In this issue, the seventeenth of the series, the focus is on Watcher Wesley Wyndam-Pryce. In the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer show, Wesley started as a bumbling stick-in-the-mud who journeyed over to […]
Last year, Boom Studios announced a new original graphic novel The Down River People, from the Long Walk to Valhalla team of Adam Smith and Matt Fox, for "a gripping southern gothic thriller about finding your family and the true cost of happiness". It was planned for July 2020, but has now been rescheduled for […]
Boom Studios is to publish a new original graphic novel, WWE: The New Day: Power of Positivity by Evan Narcisse, Austin Walker and Daniel Bayliss. And I am already lost. I presume those reading this will be able to elicit what they need from the following details. Wrestling and stuff. I know I should have […]
Strap in for We Only Find Them When They're Dead #1, an interesting science fiction concept from skillful experts in the field. In the 24th century, humanity has found its way deep into the stars. To strip the spaceways of every possible resource in their continued and almost locust-like spread through the galaxy. Things looked […]
Unlike normal chiming clocks, the strikes of a ship's bell do not match the number of the hour. Instead, there are eight bells, one for each half-hour of a four-hour watch. In the age of sailing, watches were timed with a 30-minute hourglass. Bells would be struck every time the glass was turned, and in […]
Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported that the Kickstarter crowdfunder for the Keanu Reeves comic books BRZRKR had launched. It seems to have done rather well. At the time of writing, the crowdfundeder has raised $311,451 from 3,164 backers with 29 days to go. Which means they have burnt through three stretch goals and are going to have […]
Today, comic book publisher Boom Studios launched a Kickstarter campaign for their Keanu Reeves co-created comic book series BRZRKR, launching in November. Co-writer Matt Kindt is no stranger to Kickstarter, having run two successful campaigns on his own for MIND MGMT and for Cosmic Detective with Jeff Lemire and David Rubin. And this announcement certainly […]
Boom Studios is putting there of their titles back to the printing mill – second printings for We Only Find Them When They're Dead #1 (the first print isn't even out yet), Mega Man #1 (with a 1:25 variant as well) and a third printing for Wynd #1. The second printings for September 23rd and […]
A new creative team takes the reigns from Bryan Edward Hill for a one-off detective story before Zac Thompson takes over for the next arc of BOOM! Studios' Angel reboot, currently retitled as Angel & Spike. Writer Adam Smith is joined by artist Piotr Kowalski, colorist Mattia Iacono, and letterer Ed Dukeshire for Angel & Spike #13. It reimagines the vampire […]
In 2015, Boom Studios announced they'd picked up the license for Power Rangers. Expectations were understandably… low. I remember meeting up with Eric Stephenson at San Diego Comic Con and mutually shaking out heads as we passed by some promotion for it. And this is from a man who used to write Youngblood spin-offs – […]
It was only a few weeks ago that Al Ewing and Simone di Meo's We Only Find Them When They're Dead #1 became the best-selling creator-owned launch in the company's history climbing even higher than Tom Taylor and Daniele di Nicoulo's Seven Secrets' impressive 41,000 copy sales. Now, I'm hearing that despite a healthy overprint […]
Everyone knows that James Tynion IV is one of the hottest writers in comics today. His current "Joker War" event in Batman, along with the introduction of characters like Punchline, Clownhunter and others, is driving interest and sales for DC. His surprise series from Boom, Wynd, set sales records for the company. And his upcoming […]
Every week your Local Comic Book Shop, hopefully, gets in a weekly assortment of comics, trades, posters, action figures, and other goodies from Diamond. Now some of these goodies sell out fast from your LCBS, so Tuesday and Wednesday LCBS retailers get on the phone (more often the computer) and let Diamond know they need […]
BOOM! Studios has just debuted Seven Secrets, a creator-owned series by DC's Injustice architect Tom Taylor and artist Daniele Di Nucuolo, who drew some of the best looking issues of Kelly Thompson's underrated West Coast Avengers. Seven Secrets #1 is about an Order dedicated to keeping… well, Seven Secrets secret. It's a comic like no other with the action you'd expect […]
