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 […]
I was just talking about this over in Thank FOC For Friday. 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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
In the writer's notes for The Wicked + The Divine #42, Kieron Gillen describes a moment in the issue as a fist-pumping moment. He's right. One of Chekov's guns finally goes off, and Ananke (though mind controlling Woden's Valkyries) kills Woden. The team executes the violence well. Woden's faceplate is cracked, punctured and broken into […]
We see the failed attempts at the ritual from years past. In the present, Persephone touches base with Baphomet, and the two try to discern what to do about the apparently returned Ananke, Baal, Woden, and the living heads. Before they can get very far, Morrigan reemerges and attacks Persephone. Morrigan and Baphomet then fight. […]
So, I decided to rebrand this column a little. Instead of being Comic Book Wins and Losses, it will be Top and Bottom 5 Comics for the Week from now on. People like top and bottom five lists, and it fits the new format for what I'm doing here. With that out of the way, […]
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. This issue leaves me feeling a bit dumb, because this week on my Comics for Your Pull Box entry (up yesterday, read it here), I slavishly endorsed Wicked + Divine as […]
We get a bloody scene from 1923 focusing on Ananke and Minerva, and it ends with the latter performing some kind of ritual. In the present, Woden confronts Minerva about her mischief with Ananke. Minerva talks her way out of execution, and she contacts Persephone and the Norns, whom have escaped Woden's base with the […]
It's time for that time-honored tradition of a doofy guy with pretensions of being an expert on the subject telling you what comics you should look for at your comic shop this week. That's right, it's time to figure out what comics should go in your pull box on April 4th, 2018. For the full […]
We travel back 6,000 years to figure out how it all started; a final meeting between two sisters takes place with one killing the other upon its conclusion. In the present, Persephone and Cassandra are still trapped in the cage with Woden's beheaded son. The Wicked + The Divine #34 struggles a little in the […]
Hey look! We got this out on Sunday. I think I deserve a cookie. That'll be chocolate chip, thank you very much. Here are some of the notable releases of this week, and here's a link to ComicList for those who want the full list. Doctor Star and the Kingdom of Tomorrow from Dark Horse, the fantastic Mech […]
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 […]
Loki, Marvel's go to villain besides Thanos of late and certainly the most popular complex bad guy from the films, will be presented as pansexual and genderfluid in a new series of Marvel novels coming in 2019, according to the series' author. Mackenzi Lee will be writing the book series, which will focus on Marvel's […]
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 […]
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. What's especially wonderful here is these shockers are delivered incredibly beautifully in the issue. Jamie McKelvie is really bringing his A-game this […]
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. You should probably […]
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 […]
