I’m a horror fan, and I didn’t realize it. Although I’m a wide reader genre-wise, horror and suspense were one of those genres I never really got into. Gore was gross, but not shocking. Jump scares just pissed me off. Silent Hill and its ilk were fun to watch, less fun to play when the…
The Wedding Issue: Big Barda and Scott Free
Aside from “Who would win in a fight?” nothing gets comic fans more heated than the question of whether or not superheroes should marry. In this mini-feature, former Bride Rebecca Henely-Weiss and her Maid of Honor Kayleigh Hearn take a trip down memory lane to the most significant times comic companies took the plunge and…
Shadowman/Rae Sremmurd
Shadowman/Rae Sremmurd #1 Eliot Rahal (Writer), Renato Guedes (Artist) Valiant October 4, 2017 Shadowman/Rae Sremmurd #1 is an artistically pleasing, quick adventure that combines devil-dealing and soul-stealing with modern musical artists.
IR$: A Serious-Minded Economy-Law Action Comic
IR$ Bernard Vrancken and Stephen Desberg Cinebook (English Translation), 2008 IR$ is a Belgian comic book about an American tax inspector, translated to English for the British market by Cinebook. A comic about a tax man. Wild, right?
Regular Show: Parks and Wreck is a Wild Ride
Regular Show: Parks and Wreck Various Creators kaBOOM! December 5, 2017 Regular Show: Parks and Wreck is a fun series of 14 shorts, collecting kaBOOM! comics Regular Show Annual 2014 #1, Regular Show 2015 March Madness Special #1, and Regular Show Special 2017 #1. The collection dives into the world of Mordecai and Rigby with some…
The Mane Event: WWAC’s New Tourguide, Lion Forge’s New Books!
Editor’s note: Taking over from Laura Bishop, Reagan Shaw brings you this quarter’s Lion Forge PUBWATCH. Lion Forge’s line-up is really growing! Here’s a brief tour of new and upcoming releases.
Adventure Time Comics #17: Don’t Forget The Teeth
Adventure Time Comics #17 Derek Laufman, Michael Morici, Pat Shand, Jeffrey Brown (Writers), Christopher Mitten, Spencer Amundson, Jeffrey Brown, Derek Laufman (Artists), Cole Closser (cover) kaBOOM! November 15, 2017 A new collection of Adventure Time shorts has emerged, each tale separate from the others in subject matter, but all still in possession of the heart…
Goodbye Alonso We Hardly Knew (why) Ye (were fired)
Marvel in the ’00s was a barren place, unless you were a regular at your local comic shop. The company was in the doldrums following the speculation bubble bursting in the mid ’90s, not to mention a slew of constantly questionable business decisions that led to a long battle with bankruptcy. This battle saw Marvel,…
Death Be Damned: Bringing The Wild West Back to Life
Death Be Damned Ben Acker, Ben Blacker, and Andrew Miller (Writers), Hannah Christenson (Artist), Juan Useche (Colorist), Colin Bell (Letterer) BOOM! Studios November 29, 2017 Let’s get the fun part out there first: Death Be Damned is a warped western Frankenstein revenge tale. I have been a fan of Ben Acker and Ben Blacker’s The Thrilling Adventure Hour for…
Making a Spectacle with Megan Rose Gedris
Megan Rose Gedris (handle: Rosalarian) has been doing this comics thing for a long time—her first webcomic, YU+ME: dream, debuted in 2004, and she’s been creating ever since then, with the sadly now offline pulp comic I Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space, erotic tales like Darlin’ It’s Betta Down Where It’s Wetta on Filthy Figments, and a…
Ed Piskor’s Grand Design for the X-Men
The first 30 years of the X-Men, including Chris Claremont’s record-setting run, is legendary. With almost two decades and 200 issues within Claremont’s tapestry alone, it’s hard to imagine how all of that could be condensed into a mere six books. For someone to even think of doing so, they would have to be either…
BOOM! Bar: Every Detail Covered
Eight offerings from BOOM! this week—three licensed, five creator-owned. Of the licenses, only one (Adventure Time/Regular Show #5 of a six-issue mini from KaBOOM!) is a single issue; Planet of the Apes Archive and Sons of Anarchy (both BOOM! Studios) both see their volumes two, with the former being in hardcover and the latter soft….