Welcome to February’s IDW Pubwatch! This month we saw the rollout of IDW’s 20/20 Anniversary event. Special issues of Jem and the Holograms, My Little Pony, Ghostbusters, Star Trek, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were released for the occasion. Some jumped ahead twenty years, others went back twenty years to an important moment in their…
Jenn St-Onge on Updating Classic Female Characters for New Readers
Canadian comic artist Jenn St-Onge has made a name for herself bringing beloved classic characters into the modern age. With Jem and the Holograms and The Misfits and Nancy Drew now under her belt, St-Onge is poised to take over the world. We caught up with St-Onge at the Fan Expo Canada to find out about…
Jem and the Holograms: Dimensions #4: Social Headaches
Jem and the Holograms: Dimensions #4 “Tasty” Sina Grace (Writer), Hannah Templer (Artist), Shawn Lee (Letters) “Jemojis” Kevin Panetta (Writer), Abby Boeh (Artist), Heather Danforth (Colours), Shawn Lee (Letters) IDW Publishing 7 March, 2018 In the final issue of Jem and the Holograms: Dimensions, the two rival bands find themselves at the receiving end of…
Jem and the Holograms – Infinite: Colourful Caper through Parallel Worlds
Jem and the Holograms: Infinite Kelly Thompson (Writer), Stacey Lee, Jenn St-Onge (Artists), Jen Hickman (Artist and Letters), Sarah Stern, M. Victoria Robado (Letters and Colours), Shawn Lee (Letters), Brittany Peer (Colours) IDW Publishing 13 February, 2018 Jem and the Holograms and the Misfits are at it again: not singing, but arguing. Can these two…
Jem and the Holograms: Dimensions is Girl Power Personified
Jem and the Holograms: Dimensions #2 “Face Off” Sarah Kuhn (Writer), Siobhan Keenan (Artist), Shawn Lee (Letters) “Stargirl” Sarah Winifred Searle (Writer and Artist), Shawn Lee (Letters) IDW December 27, 2017 The newest Jem and the Holograms series is an anthology of stories featuring the eponymous group and their musical rivals, the Misfits. Each issue…
Quiz: Which Misfit Are You?
Today we are here to answer the eternal question– from IDW’s Jem and the Holograms spin-off band ultimate rivals, which Misfit are you? Write your answers down, and at the end of the quiz tally up your points to see who you are. Okay? Let’s rock! Q1. Someone’s wronged you, how do you take it? Revenge Channel…
Where Has Jem Gone and What is Jem Infinite?
June the fourteenth saw the release of Jem and the Holograms #26, a thirty-two page special, ending the cult smash title’s ongoing run. Series scripter Kelly Thompson spoke to Comics Alliance about the end of Jem back in January; at the time, the final, giant-sized issue was slated for an April release. So it had been…
4 Comics to Give You Hope
I read a range of comics from a range of publishers and genres: horror, fantasy, sci-fi, slice of life, superhero… and ones in between. If I reviewed all of them, I would never have time for anything else. Besides, there are some comics that give me such warm fuzzies and feelgoods that reviewing them would just…
Jem Jam: “Kimber’s Rebellion” and “Frame Up”
2015 marks the 30th anniversary of Jem, the beloved 80s cartoon series. Jem and the Holograms have never been bigger, as 2015 will also see the release of a live action film based on the show, a new comic book series published by IDW, and a continuing line of collectible fashion dolls from Integrity Toys….