Comics Archives

Get ready to overdose on Fadeaway with Marko in the new issue of Saga! From Image Comics, Saga #27, written by Brian K Vaughan, with art by Fiona Staples sends us tripping on the troublesome drug that Alana experimented with many issues ago This time, it's Marko's turn as he tries it for the first[...]

By Nikolai Fomich   [Shaman Issue One] In the world of superhero comics, no one stays dead forever But who brings the dead back to life? That's the question writer Ben Kahn and illustrator Bruno Hidalgo explore in their new supernatural adventure comic Shaman With their Kickstarter campaign well underway, I spoke with Ben about the comic, baseball,[...]

From Image Comics, Descender #2, written by Jeff Lemire, with art by Dustin Nguyen continues in an interesting format Throughout the issue we alternate between the present day in which Tim-21 is being chased by a group of men attempting to capture him, and a memory backup that allows us to see Tim-21 from his[...]

By Chris Thompson [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podcast/OiCPodcastEpisode124.mp3] After last week's debut of The Real/Fake Geeks segment with Maria Norris (which you can still listen to here), this time I'm back with creator John Allison (Bad Machinery, Scary Go Round, Bobbins) to discuss the 'return' of Giant Days from Boom! Studios under their Boom! Box imprint. John & I discuss how he[...]

A comic creator is claiming he bought a Fantastic Four comic in PGX 7.5 slabbed condition for $10,000 but, with doubts about its status, had it regraded by, we presume, CGC, who knocked it down to a 5.0, a significant difference in condition and value. And now, My News LA is reporting that Nash Tennant of Sherman[...]

Predator, Runlovekill, Tithe, Nutmeg, The Fox, Old Wounds, Aquia and Bloodshot Reborn. The week after? Uncle Scrooge, Beyond Belief, Kaptara and Avengers: Operation Hydra. DARK HORSE COMICS ARCHIE VS PREDATOR #1 $3.99 ARCHIE VS PREDATOR #1 POWELL VAR CVR $3.99 ART OF HE MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE HC $39.99 BANDETTE HC VOL 02 STEALERS KEEPERS $14.99 BPRD HELL ON EARTH #130 $3.50 BTVS SEASON 10 TP VOL 02[...]

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! Advance reorders[...]

Dave Davenport has received the 2015 Prism Comics Queer Press Grant towards the production of his upcoming graphic novel Stray Bullet. Announced at the It's A Queer, Queer World panel by Prism president Ted Abenheim at Wondercon, the grant is awarded to "assist comics creators in self publishing comics with LGBT characters or themes Entries are judged[...]

The latter of whom seems to be channelling a little of his Journey Into Mystery… The Book Of Death from Valiant. Run the PR… This summer, witness the death of Ninjak…learn the final fate of Bloodshot…see the redemption of Toyo Harada…meet the next bearer of the X-O Manowar armor…herald the next generation of Valiant heroes…and witness the rise[...]

This is what Axel Alonso tweeted, Fall 2015 pic.twitter.com/9KItDt6awH — axel alonso (@axelalonsomarv) March 12, 2015 Well, it looks like the writer is

Well, that happened last year. And now the Guinness World Records folks signed off on it. Shawn Demumbrum , who organised the record break with Jesse James of Jesse James Comics  told me, A few days after Mark Millar set the records at Kapow! Comic Convention in London in April 2011, I had stopped Jesse James Comics for one[...]

This Christmas saw the release of the Frozen graphic novel from Joe Books, where they took screencaps of the movie and transitioned them into a comic

Doug Murray, co-writer of Jungle Girl: Season 3 #1, talks with writer Nancy Collins about Vampirella #11, both on sale this week. Cover art by Mike Mayhew

Recently, the Image Comics series Rat Queens underwent a change in artists under rather ignoble circumstances And Stjepan Sejic took over the role But some worried that the matter at hand might dull co-creator Kurtis J Wiebe's writing, a melding of crassness, female empowerment and joi de vive that has helped make the book so popular. So, two[...]

Valiant has two new books in shops next week, starting with the first issue of Bloodshot Reborn by Jeff Lemire and Mico Suayan. Also in shops is Unity #17