Loud! by Maria Llovet is surprisingly difficult to describe. It feels like an X-rated short feature or a particularly decadent midnight movie. Simplest: A night at a Loud!, a music bar/strip club goes wrong. Disastrously so. Loud! is the Spanish artist's second Black Mask work, and the second thing she's done that she's the writer/artist […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Anansi and his apprentice sneak into Russia. The country has begun sequestering its black citizens ever since Negromuerte. That means that our two heroes cannot blend into the crowds. Regardless, they sneak into a warehouse where Russian crime lords are auctioning off superpowered black children. Unfortunately, they cannot save them all; our heroes […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Kim Quatro and Kim Dantzler are bounty hunters, and they have gone corporate. They are now contracted out by a massive company, and their handler is tired of the recklessness of the Fighting Kims. Despite that, the company has a mission for Kim and Kim. They are to recover a painting from a […]
Words and Pictures by Bleeding Cool's Mike Sangregorio:Midday Thursday at San Diego Comic-Con 2018 saw Black Mask Studios (Black, Jade Street Protection Services) discuss their recently announced Mr Robot comic series.The panel was moderated by Black Mask’s publisher, Matteo Pizzolo, and featured a discussion between he and show writer Jeff McKibben, who will be writing the[...]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] A powered senator is the victim of an assassination attempt by a powered character who appears to be a part of a ninja organization. Among the senator's powered bodyguards is a warrior who once was a part of an organization who trained young powered men and women to be assassins. This warrior and […]
It doesn't roar out of the gates like a punch to a smug Nazi's face, it picks itself up from the street, from the corner you just walked past, creeping out into the concrete night daring to be itself, to at best expose the hands on the knives carving out the humans from humanity and[...]
Black Mask Studios, the publishing/production company launched in 2014 by Matt Pizzolo (Occupy Comics, Halo-8 Films), Brett Gurewitz (Bad Religion, CEO Epitaph Records, ANTI- Records), and Steve Niles (30 Days Of Night), has unveiled its third slate of comics: a dozen projects principally from new creators bringing bold and unorthodox points of view to their[...]
Tomorrow's Ashes by Matt Pizzolo (Young Terrorists) and Anna Wieszczyk, sees the creators of Godkiller return for an all new saga. In a twisted future where America has been divided into warring city states, escaped slavegirl Halfpipe and grifter Soledad roam the savage land on the fringes between civilizations. When they come upon a strange relic, they […]
The Dregs by Zac Thompson, Lonnie Nadler both of Vice fame, with Last Born artist Eric Zawadzki is the latest Black Mask Class of 2016 title. It's very right on. Has a certain "Eat The Rich" flavour… In this bloodsoaked satire of gentrification, an exclusive new restaurant called Pijin becomes the hottest spot in town by serving […]
The Forevers by Curt Pires (The Fiction, Mayday) and Eric Pfeiffer (Arcadia) is another new entry in Black Mask's Class Of 2016. Live fast. Live forever. Five friends struggling on the brink of stardom sacrifice everything in a black magic pact that brings them all the wealth and glamour they ever wanted. But now, years later, […]
Black Mask's Class Of 2016 seems to have a couple who are resitting the year… Space Riders vol 2 by Alexis Ziritt and Fabian Rangel Jr is entitled Galaxy Of Brutality. The Skullship Santa Muerte rides again as the creators of Space Riders (one of The Village Voice's Outstanding Comics of 2015) return. An ancient […]
For Black Mask's Class Of 2016 comes No Angel by Adrianne Palicki, Eric Palicki and Ari Syahrazad with Amancay Nahuelpan covers. Eric writes Guardians of Infinity for Marvel. While Adrienne plays Bobbie Chase, Mockingbird in Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD and upcoming Most Wanted. Religious texts from The Bible to the Sumerian tablets speak of strange creatures descending from […]
For Black Mask's Class Of 2016, we have The Skeptics, a new series by Tini Howard and Devaki Neogi of Curb Stomp. A stylish, period, political adventure about a pair of hip, clever teens who fool the world of the 1960s into believing they have superpowers. Like X-Men: First Class meets Project Alpha. It is the […]
It's not just the newest talent behind Black Mask titles. Run Of The Shadows is co-written by the veteran writer JM DeMatteis, being the likes of Moonshadow and the eighties Justice League relaunch. Run For The Shadows is by JM DeMatteis, Matt Pizzolo and Josh Hood with covers from Amancay Nahuelpan. Julie was a good girl from an elite […]
We were only talking about the work of Magdalene Visaggio the other day. She drew the ashcan of her sci-fi LGBTQ comic book Kim + Kim, released in NYCC, as Brian Visaggio. But she will be published through Black Press as Magdalene Visaggio. The comic book itself is a journey of transition. By Magdalene Visaggio, Eva Cabrera, Claudia Aguirre and covers by Tess Fowler […]
It was the Kickstarter that could. And now, as part of Black MaskPress's Class Of 2016 promotion, they have announced that they will be publishing Kwanza Osajyefo, Tim Smith 3, Jamal Igle and Khary Randolph's superhero comic Black. In a world that already hates and fears them – what if only Black people had superpowers? After miraculously […]
New York! Once again, New York Comic Con descends upon us all. 4 days of huge crowds, celebrity sightings, street cart food, long walks, and bad smells. And comics. Lucky for you team Black Mask will be at the show in force, signing books and selling convention exclusives. Below is a list of who will […]
He was a total gentlemen and there wasn’t a time when he wasn’t trying to make something happen in a positive way.”There were also a number of great vendors who brought all the hard-to-find back issues and hot-off-the-indy-press issue ones from the likes of new ‘it’ indy publisher Black Mask Studios (for more on that[...]
Clandestino arrives from Black Mask in October, created by artist Amancay Nahuelpan (Young Terrorists, Boy-1), and boy is the art expertise obvious on this ultra-violent but undeniably attractive book. Black Mask describe the book as "a tale of wild outlaws, their love of country, and the revolution that comes from those things. Like Tarantino and […]
While the amazingly valuable and popular Black Mask Studios comic We Can Never Go Home, written by Matthew Rosenberg and Patrick Kindlon, with pretty gorgeous art by Josh Hood is in reprints for issues 1, 2, and 3 in shops currently, Rosenberg let slip that there have been some changes to the reprint for Issue[...]
