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Thirteen Thoughts About Fourteen Comics – New Avengers, Secret Avengers, Hit Girl, Avengers, Animal Man, Swamp Thing, Earth 2, Snapshot, All New X-Men, Superior Spider-Man, Hellboy, Youngblood, Epic Kill and Mudman

New Avengers #3 is full of lots of important Marvel Universe moments that will no doubt have implications for stories across the next year. But it also

Fourteen Thoughts About Fourteen Comics – Locke & Key, FF, Minutemen, Crossed, Gambit, Ferals, Mudman, Phantom Lady And Doll Man, Wolverine & The X-Men, The New Deadwardians, Ultimate X-Men, AVX Versus, JIM, Morning Glories

One has less blood, but both are equally impactful. Mudman is absolutely the best comic that no one is buying, with Paul Grist showing an absolute mastery of the comic page layout to rival JH Williams III, Frank Quitely, Sergio Toppi and Simone Bianchi That he has a rougher, more cartoony, blockier style counts against him[...]

Jack Staff Now On Official Hiatus. And Don't Hold Your Breath.

In the new issue of Mudman (out today folks), Paul Grist states that due to low sales, his Jack Staff series is no more At least for now That if it returns it will be a series of mini-series And he is concentrating on Mudman for now. Which means that the solicitations for The Weird World[...]

Thirteen Thoughts About Thirteen Comics – Supreme, Savage Dragon, Daredevil, Supurbia, Animal Man, Swamp Thing, Action Comics, Fanboys Vs Zombies, Danger Club, Hulk, Mudman and Wolverine And The X-Men

In the panel above from Mudman #3 we have someone speaking from inside a speech balloon, and someone thinking from inside a thought balloon, both used as part of the actual speaker and respondents actions It's an incredibly complex piece of storytelling told in an incredibly simple way Some people find it hard to look[...]

Is Mudman The First Realistic Super Hero Comic?

Yesterday, Image Comics published Mudman, a new superhero comic book by Paul Grist. And I thought it was out of this world In a very in-this-world sort of way. Oh sure there is a super power involved, there is fantasy, there are dream sequences that seem to predict the future, or a future, there are costumes and[...]

Supergirl Makes An Appearance In Mudman #1

This is a splash page scene from the new comic Mudman by Kane/Jack Staff creator Paul Grist from Image Comics About a small town teenager living on the seaside who envelopes mud based super powers Handy when the tide goes out leaving mud flats… Mudman #1 is published in November… Okay,[...]