Welcome to the Dynamite Comics Pubwatch for the month of November! I’m Lisa, Dynamite is my explosive beat, and here’s this month’s news!
IDW Pubwatch November 2019
Welcome to the November IDW Pubwatch! It’s been a busy month at IDW and I’ve got all the interesting news coming out of the publishing house as well as tons of IDW comic book reviews. Plus, I have a selection of my favourite covers from this month!
Henchgirl’s Kristen Gudsnuk on Making Friends, Modern Fantasy, and Four-legged Muses
I felt very lucky to meet Kristen Gudsnuk at New York Comic Con this year. I was strolling Artist Alley and excited to see her books Making Friends and Making Friends: Back to the Drawing Board. These young adult graphic novels are published by Scholastic, and I had heard about how great they were. While I was…
Previously on Comics: Tempus Fugit
November is here and there is no time to waste because the clocks have done their nonsense clock thing on both sides of the Atlantic and I don’t know when we are anymore so let’s get to it.
An Objective and Completely Accurate Ranking of John Constantine Knockoffs
I have strong feelings about John Constantine.
Cover Girl: Space Bandits #4
Welcome to Cover Girl. Each month, we gather a team of WWAC contributors to analyze a new and notable comic book cover featuring one or more women. This month, Tia, Paige, Louis, and Nola examine Matteo Scalera’s cover for Space Bandits #4.
DC PUBWATCH – October 2019 Edition
The biggest news in this month’s DC Pubwatch came out of New York Comic Con, the last big show of con season. For DC Universe news, Dan DiDio and Jim Lee revealed a “cohesive” timeline for the universe, which included Wonder Woman being the first superhero. We’ll find more about the timeline in coming months,…
No Mercy! Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues #1
Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues #1 Luis Antonio Delgado (colorist), Kagan McLeod (artist, cover artist), Denton J. Tipton (writer), Neil Uyetake (letterer) IDW Publishing October 9, 2019 IDW’s Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues #1 is the beginning of what will be a miniseries giving Karate Kid nerds like myself the story of the ultimate…
Robots vs Princesses: Whoever Wins, We…Win?
Robots vs Princesses Nicolas Chapus (art and Cover Art); Todd Mathy (writing); Sean Rinehart (Letters); Andrew Frank Rodriguez (Map Illustration) September 18, 2019 Dynamite Comics Robots vs Princesses is one of those books that works beautifully in the writing department, but leaves something to be desired in the art department.
Shades of Magic: Night of Knives Makes For A Pointed Adventure
Shades of Magic: Night of Knives Enrica Eren Angiolini (colors), Andrea Olimpieri (inks), V. E. Schwab (writing), Budi Setiawan (lineart), Rob Steen (lettering) Titan Comics October 29th, 2019 Full stop: The Steel Prince comics are a joy to read. I’m speaking with a little bit of bias here; I devoured the Shades of Magic trilogy…
Exploring Jeff Lemire’s Family Tree
In Jeff Lemire and Phil Hester’s upcoming comic, Family Tree from Image Comics, a girl becomes a tree. This new, original horror story follows the Hayes family on a backroads road trip across the country seeking a cure for Meg. Frightening and poignant, the first issue of the new horror ongoing combines elements of body horror, magical…
Chastity Jack: Judging a Book By Its Variant Covers
Chastity #1 Daniel Maine (artist), Carlos M. Mangual (letterer), Bryan Valenza (colorist), Leah Williams (writer) September 11, 2019 Chastity Jack is a character who could feel recognizable to anyone: she has creative dreams she can’t quite achieve, she’s frustrated by how slow the NYC subway moves, she doesn’t take attitude from anyone. But unlike most New…