Image Comics has revealed Jamie McKelvie's variant cover for April's Ludocrats #1 in a press release totally ripping off our satirical comic book news style, complete with fake quotes from McKelvie and writer Kieron Gillen Hitting stores on April Fools Day, Ludocrats is a five-issue miniseries by Gillen, Jim Rossignol, Jeff Stokely, and Tamra Bonvillain[...]
Jamie McKelvie drawing an FOC variant cover for the launch of Decorum #1 Just like Boom's Alienated got McKelvie is clearly the place discerning creators go for FOC covers - also in the knowledge that McKelvie may suffer actual pain when drawing them these days...But yes, here we go, Image Comics' big launch of 2020[...]
Image Comics has announced a new comic coming in Summer 2020 from Jamie McKelvie, Matthew Wilson, and Aditya Bidikar called The Killing Horizon, the first project McKelvie will write in a decade The press release describes the concept for this space opera comic:
THE KILLING HORIZON takes place in the post-post-apocalyptic future Far from Earth, a[...]
Jamie McKelvie and Matt Wilson have just concluded their artistic run on The Wicked + The Divine But what comes next? Well, here's a teaser for.. something new from the both of them from Image Comics for 2020 Something cosmic, something space-based, something with a female lead? These are just assumptions......the link is to sign[...]
Is it me or do I see the influence of Jamie McKelvie on the following images from Evan "Doc" Shaner promoting his upcoming Strange Adventures comic book with Tom King and Mitch Gerads, coming from DC Comics in 2020? McKelvie's work, especially with Kieron Gillen on Phonogram, Young Avengers and The Wicked + The Divine,[...]
And it’s a feeling to savor to kill one of those men.[caption id="attachment_1016501" align="alignnone" width="600"] The Wicked + The Divine, by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Matthew Wilson, and Clayton Cowles.[/caption]I liked that moment when I read it.Then I gave it a couple days.And as I changed out a roll of toilet paper at work, I[...]
Morrigan and Baphomet then fight.[caption id="attachment_876266" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The Wicked + The Divine #37 cover by Jamie McKelvie[/caption]The Wicked + The Divine keeps testing me This issue isn’t as egregious as the last because something exciting actually happens in this one However, it’s worse in that, instead of repeating the same panel for 13 pages,[...]
However, constant exposition dumps, obfuscating artwork, and characters that can't justify all of this keep the book from being even passable. Chris Sebela and Hayden Sherman are talented creators, but this isn't one of their good stories.[caption id="attachment_847163" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The Wicked + The Divine #36 cover by Jamie McKelvie and Matt Wilson[/caption]3[...]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"]We see the history of Ananke/Minerva’s stealing of god heads throughout time, and, in the present, Persephone comes to terms with the Baal's revelations.[caption id="attachment_847163" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The Wicked + The Divine #36 cover by Jamie McKelvie and Matt Wilson[/caption]This issue leaves me feeling a bit dumb, because this week on my Comics for[...]
Persephone and the Norns don’t trust Minerva, but she points Persephone towards a secret inside Woden’s compound.[caption id="attachment_822432" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Wicked + Divine #35 cover by Jamie McKelvie and Matthew Wilson[/caption]Things kick up into high gear in this issue of Wicked + Divine, and mysteries begin unfolding before Persephone and the reader[...]
It centers around one such information courier named Jack as he battles the world's worst forces to do his job.[caption id="attachment_822430" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Isola #1 cover by Karl Kerschl[/caption]Isola #1Another new Image series, this time from the creative team of Brenden Fletcher, Karl Kerschl, and MSASSYK. The story centers around a royal guard retinue trying to save their queen[...]
In the present, Persephone and Cassandra are still trapped in the cage with Woden’s beheaded son.[caption id="attachment_805371" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The Wicked + The Divine #34 cover by Jamie McKelvie and Matthew Wilson[/caption]The Wicked + The Divine #34 struggles a little in the plot advancement department, with much of the story consisting of Persephone/Laura and Cassandra[...]
The premise sounds interesting, the creators have done some great work in the past, so this may just live up to the hype.[caption id="attachment_805371" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Wicked + Divine #34 cover by Jamie McKelvie and Matt Wilson[/caption]Wicked + Divine #34What more need be said about this Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie series? This issue starts a new arc that[...]
Could 2018 see the final issue of the hit image comic The Wicked + The Divine by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie completed and ready to be printed for the series' 2019 end? According to the most shocking tweet posted on Bleeding Cool so far this year, McKelvie is hoping to finish "most of (maybe all?)[...]
Comic book artist David Mack, creator of Kabuki and co-creator of deaf Marvel superhero Echo with Joe Quesada, has become the latest comic artist to make the foray into music videos.Creating the promo video for Dashboard Confessional's latest single, We Fight, Mack lends his signature artistic style to the video, which you can see below.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cntsqw7XOF0The[...]
Similarly, in the Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's Young Avengers run, he stated how Asgardians didn't have concepts like straight and gay, and so such things don't factor into his own sexuality.In Al Ewing and Lee Garbett's Loki: Agent of Asgard, Loki changed shape and gender a few times.Sadly, readers have a little while to wait[...]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"]The Wicked + The Divine #33 from Image Comics by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Matthew Wilson, Clayton Cowles, and Dee Cunniffe is going to be a tough one to review without spoilers, but I'm going to try.What I will say is that this issue is a game changer And damned if I don't admit[...]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"]The Wicked + The Divine #31 is a game changer.This issue has the next big events that really change the direction for the series, and it brings some shockers, believe you me.[caption id="attachment_710650" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The Wicked + The Divine #31 cover by Jamie McKelvie, Matthew Wilson and Clayton Cowles[/caption]What's especially wonderful here is[...]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"]The Wicked + The Divine #29 marks the series return and start of what series creators Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, and Matthew Wilson refer to as Imperial Phase II Gillen has repeated used the metaphor of a double album, with this second part being that second album that vastly accelerates the story.[caption id="attachment_678555" align="aligncenter"[...]
A Writer’s Commentary: Kieron Gillen on James Bond Service Special, on sale from Dynamite. Cover by Jamie McKelvie and interiors by Antonio Fuso.This was an interesting project Nick and I have been talking about doing something together for the best part of a decade, and the stars have never aligned When he suggested a Bond one-off,[...]
