Coming from Boom! on August 05th, 2020 Buffy the Vampire Slayer #16– When a beloved teacher from their school goes missing, Buffy and Kendra will have to put aside their differences to uncover the true threat – whose identity will shake both Slayers to their cores! King of Nowhere #4– As Denis digs deeper into […]
Metal Shark Bro volume 2 (Coming soon) Scout Comics Written by Bob Frantz & Kevin Cuffe Illustrated by Walter Ostlie Volume 1 available now Before we get started, I just want to thank the creative team behind the most unlikely piece of awesome I’ve read in a while, Metal Shark Bro– Artist Walter Ostlie, & […]
Warped! The Adventures of Sandy & Angus vol 1 215 Ink Written & Illustrated by Fernando Pinto Release Date 8/26/2020 ISBN: 9780999551493 In a world where the future meets the present, watch (and read) how your new favorite “heroes,” the rambunctious (and sometimes annoying) Sandy and Angus (the robot with the cargo shorts), try to make rent […]
Similar in theme to Deadpool, but orders of magnitude more chaotic, Bonecheck tells the homey tale of an unnamed bounty hunter, latest in a long ancestral line, with a bit of a bar tab. Only here, instead of a sleazy dive bar which was formerly a school for wayward girls, we’ve got a Saloon, formerly a vaudeville-style theater with all the ghosts and drama, run by fallen angels looking to make their way back to heaven by hiring murderous mercenaries to take out the world’s evil. (11/13)
A young couple, lost, naked and starving in a wood have a terrible decision to make: burn to death or drown in the oxygen… – From the Arks Kickstarter page… Written by Rory Collins Digital Art by Andrew Morris James Daly Neil Copland (From the Kickstarter page…) Have you ever wondered how we will leave […]
The Old Guard (vol 1) Image Comics Written by Greg Rucka Illustrated by Leandro Fernandez Colors by Daniela Miwa Letters by Jodi Wynne Now a motion picture available on Netflix “This is a fairy tale of blood and bullets.” If there was nothing else going on, that tag line would have grabbed my attention. No […]
Strukul presents an interesting take in this one: literature, both prose and graphic, is inundated with takes on Stoker’s Dracula; tales of Vlad Dracul, sans pointy teeth and presumably closer to reality? A bit less so. Instead of the vampire, we see the monster: blood-thirsty, selfish and impulsive—but passionate, fiercely independent and Wallachian-loyal even unto his death. And in terms of story, we get plots and sub-plots aplenty, and no shortage of character motivations left gestating for future harvest. (11/13)
A Second Chance at Sarah ( Dark Horse – Druckmann / Wong) As his wife Sarah lies dying, John makes a deal with a demon for a desperate chance to save her! Transported to their childhood, John gets a single day to prevent the tragedy that led to Sarah’s present-day doom, all while trying to convince […]
Just as Snow, Glass, Apples is far afield of Disney’s happily sanitized Snow White (or even the Grimm brothers’ original, for that matter), Troll Bridge is not your kindergartner’s Three Billy Goats Gruff. The tale, told in retrospect from the now-adult Jack, is beautiful prose: eloquent, evocative and yet somehow minimal at once. And, true to Gaiman form, fondly nostalgic of a youth lived in the wilds of fair(ish) Britain in the ‘70’s and ‘80’s. (13/13)
Tuskers Available in digital & hard copy (3 versions!) here Written by MARC GAFFEN & JAVIER BARRIOS Illustrated by DANIEL GOVAR Edited by GREG TUMBARELLO Having read Tuskers, I can say that it’s a beautifully illustrated, gorgeously written story of trust, hope, & redemption. It’s often gut-wrenching but can only be described as important, with […]