Two Substack comics series get physical releases through Image
Books that were first released through Chip Zdarsky’s and James Tynion’s Substacks are getting physical releases through Image Comics this June.
Read MoreDaniel Warren Johnson's new comic has been unveiled and it has lucha libre
It’s called Do A Powerbomb!, and the first issue is due out June 15.
Read MoreClassic Comic of the Week: Revival, Volume One - You're Among Friends
Revival is a series that plays out similarly in structure to the old school serialized television format, with shorter incidents across issues, but there's a propulsive focus on characters that makes you want to see exactly what happens next.
Read MoreClassic Comic of the Week: SCI-Spy (2010) - Image Comics
Overall, SCI-Spy is a fun romp from Moench, Gulacy, Palmiotti, Mounts, and Robins. It's a well-told, propulsive action thriller within a sci-fi world that will grab hold of you and not let you go until you've finished every page.
Read MoreComics Anatomy: THE FIX, when artwork does the heaviest lifting
By Harry Kassen — Welcome back to another Comics Anatomy Charity Commission. I’ll be doing these through the Summer and then returning to the previous setup in the Fall. I want to thank Sean for his request for From Hell for last month’s article and I want to thank everyone who read and shared the article itself. I had a great time writing it and I’m proud of the work I did preparing for it.
Read MoreFatale #13 - CLASSIC COMIC OF THE WEEK
By d. emerson eddy — I'm continuing my trip through some of my favorite westerns and western-tinged tales across the years in honor of the release of Pulp, this week spotlighting another book from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (with colors by Elizabeth Breitweiser), Fatale. This series is one of the ones that felt like Brubaker and Phillips were specifically writing it for me, delving into a world of Lovecraftian horror and crime noir that seemed note perfect, resulting in a tone that seemed right out of a Dennis Wheatley novel. Fatale #13 came smack dab in the middle of a loosely connected arc where we were witnessing the lives of a number of “femme fatales” across history, including our protagonist, Josephine's, early history.
Read MoreThe Wicked + The Divine #15: Wic + Div Re-Read
By Alex Batts — Once again, we return to this… another installment in The Wicked + The Divine Re-read Project. This issue features the incredibly talented Stephanie Hans as guest artist, and the story in the book takes a closer look at the character of Amaterasu. Let’s get into it…
Read MoreA Look at Bitter Root, the New Eisner-Winning BEST CONTINUING SERIES
By Ariel Baska — The Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series this past weekend at SDCC was given to a series that is endlessly rich in storytelling, and imbued with the power of history and allusion - Bitter Root. Make no mistake. It is one hell of an action-packed story that draws you into the fray from the word go, and flies from frame to frame, almost popping off of the page with Sanford Greene’s animated style. At the same time, the series is very intentional about interweaving into a monstrous mythology with a monstrous history only now emerging in the consciousness of the zeitgeist. The weave is so fine that to pick apart the layers entirely would be folly, but to understand the texture of the thing, I feel I have to point out a few.
Read MoreComic of the Week: Reaver #7 is
The fantasy series Reaver returns with its second arc, The Grim After, here in Reaver #7 with a bit of a change in tone and approach. This world takes a low magic stance similar to something like Robert E. Howard's Conan, but the first arc was rife with intrigue and backstabbing as a band of pressed men were forced to save the world. More or less. It's definitely more involved than that, but I highly recommend that everyone check out the first volume, Hell's Half Dozen. Reaver #7 dials it back to a more personal level, following Essen Breaker.
Read MoreCOMIC OF THE WEEK: Olympia #3 is 'something different entirely'
By d. emerson eddy — Perhaps more than other forms of narrative fiction, comics has a penchant for reflexive meta storytelling. Comics that are built around a story of making comics, including portions of that comics-within-comics, but also integrating the fictional world of the comic within the comic as a kind of real place. The first two issues of Olympia from Tony Pires, Curt Pires, Alex Diotto, Dee Cunniffe, and Micah Myers do this beautifully by introducing us to a kid whose comic book hero, Olympian, unexpectedly crash lands in front of him. It plays with ideas of imagination, paying homage to Jack Kirby along the way, utilizing the old school comics framework as a second layer for storytelling. Olympia #3 is something different entirely.
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