Last week, we saw retailers finalize their orders for the first of Boom Studios' twin Power Rangers series – Mighty Morphin #1. After FOC, the launch is the second-highest ordered Power Rangers title since Boom's original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers launch, which outsold every Marvel title in March 2016. That's right, higher than Mighty Morphin […]
An Unkindness of Ravens, the new series from writer/artist Dan Panosian, artist Marianna Ignazzi, colorist Fabiana Mascolo, and letterer Mike Fiorentino is a high school supernatural-drama, Salem Witch trials revenge story, and murder mystery. A lot of horror's greatest stories take place, like this one, in New England… so does An Unkindness of Ravens hold up? An Unkindness of Ravens […]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow continues with the fourth issue of what has been by far the best title in BOOM! Studios' reboot of the iconic series. Everything that made the first three issues of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow great continues here, with this slice-of-life style script from Mariko Tamaki. Even as it begins to ramp […]
Strange Academy #1? After last week's poor showings (Marauders #5 did make it in eventually), this week Marvel Comics has sent a lot of comic books back to the printing mill for seconds – and a fifth printing for Strange Academy #1. While Venom #27 gets a fourth printing… AVENGERS #36 2ND PRINTING VAR (SEP208301, […]
The third time is certainly the charm as the new adventure series from Boom! Studios again hits every note perfectly. With cinematic camera angles, effective characterization, and lore that gets more effective with every issue, Seven Secrets #3 is your new favorite comic book. A teenager named Caspar has a chance to step into a […]
As we predicted Tom Taylor and Daniele Di Nicoulo's Seven Secrets #1 third printing has sold out and Boom Studios is going back to press for a fourth time. This marks only the third time this year Boom has gone to a fourth print, the first being James Tynion IV and Michael Dialynas' Wynd which […]
Angel & Spike from BOOM! Studios gets a new writer with Lovely Receiver's Zac Thompson. How does this new team handle the reboot of Buffy's sister series? Zac Thompson's social media spoiled the surprise a little. Nothing narrative… but rather the "is it going to be good?" of it all. Thompson has already established himself as an incredible […]
Keanu Reeves has been talking at length about his upcoming (now delayed until February) comic book BRZRKR he is writing with Matt Kindt and drawn by Ron Garney, published through Boom Studios but also Kickstarted. Keanu Reeves: The structure of the story is, in the modern day, we're following a character named B and then […]
As we previously reported, Al Ewing and Simone Di Meo's We Only Find Them When They're Dead is already Boom Studios' best-selling creator-owned launch at over 75,000 copies. That's a truly robust amount of support from retailers, even when taking into account its Ewing's first creator-owned series. Ewing, who skipped the more conventional route of […]
Peach Momoko is a comic book creator and cover artist who began exhibiting at US comic conventions back in 2014. She drew a couple of stories picked up by Grant Morrison when he was EIC of Heavy Metal Magazine and has since become the hottest cover art variant creator in the business. In October, that means lots of covers […]
Peach Momoko is a comic book creator and cover artist who began exhibiting at US comic conventions back in 2014. She drew a couple of stories picked up by Grant Morrison when he was EIC of Heavy Metal Magazine and has since become the hottest cover art variant creator in the business. In October, that means lots of covers […]
Seven Secrets #1 introduced a world of warriors and the secrets that they protect with their lives. Writer Tom Taylor kicked off the first issue with a script that over-explained its concept while delivering the story through narration that felt oddly familiar. Does the second issue pick up steam? Seven Secrets #2 has a very unique […]
Last year, when Something Is Killing The Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edara debuted it shattered Boom Studios' previous FOC sales on an original series debut. But those record-breaking orders weren't enough and the first issue went through six printings to meet demand, making Something Is Killing The Children the second Boom series […]
Almost five years after launching bigger than every Marvel release in March 2016, Boom Studios' Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is coming to an end with issue #55. We've well covered the big moments in the series including the introduction of new characters like Lord Drakkon, Ranger Slayer, and others, alongside big events like Shattered Grid, […]
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 […]
