Terminal Punks #1 is a fantastic start, and it’ll be exciting to see where this punk rock-driven story goes with an amazing cast, both in terms of the characters on the pages and the creators working on the book.
Read MoreBy Jacob Cordas — We are gonna to need to get mean for a second. We are gonna need to get mean the way that Ionesco got during Rhinoceros, the way that Sam Greenlee and Melvin Clay got during The Spook By The Door and the way that Garth Ennis got during The Boys. We gotta take a moment and talk about the necessity of this meanness.
Read MoreBy Larry Jorash — Members of society with disabilities are, I think it’s fair to say, often left out of comics. There are some examples in mainstream books, to be sure, including Barbara Gordon for many years as Oracle in DC Comics, as well as Daredevil on Marvel’s rooftops. Now, with the forthcoming book from Mad Cave Studios, Pantomime, we get a pair of new characters in that group — Haley and Max.
Read MoreBy T.W. Worn — You're in line at a Burger King when you look over at the door, distracted from the menu by the sound of it opening. Inside walks a Spuds MacKenzie impersonator. The dog walks up to you, drops a piece of paper it was holding in its mouth at your feet, and trots away. You grab and unfold the sheet of paper to see it read: Copper Tin Inn. Roof. 7PM.
Read MoreBy Zack Quaintance — It’s really staggering sometimes the amount of passion, care, and energy being put into creator-owned comics these days. There is a steady flow of new indie books being made with high levels of craft in the industry right now, to the point it’s gotten hard to predict where the next great comic is coming from. The days of only paying attention to the output of two to four (maaaybe five) publishers are long gone.
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