Eternal Empire Jonathan Luna (Story, Art, Lettering) and Sarah Vaughn (Story, Script) Image Comics November 22, 2017 Saia isn’t a nice place. That’s mostly courtesy of the Eternal Empress and her quest to conquer every last country on the continent. Tair (in Essla) and Rion (in Qaara) live similarly depressing lives under the thumbs of…
BOOM! Bar: License to Misbehave
Hahahaha, I’m so smart. This week’s BOOM! Bar requires almost no input from me, your host! Except for all that behind-the-scenes organisational hell… but that’s normal. I’m counting it a win. Why am I home free this week? Because everything’s but the below’s already assigned! Hurray for long-term planning! The week of Wednesday the 29th…
How is a Mutant Like an ESPer: Tokyo ESP and X-Men
“Tokyo ESP? What’s that about?” “Oh, it’s like X-men for Japan.” Ever have one of those fridge logic moments where you say something off the cuff and it’s so brilliant, you wonder why you never saw it before? Okay, so I only just finished up the last volume of the manga not that long ago,…
Showtime: It’s Magic, There Is No Trick
Showtime Antoine Cossé Breakdown Press September 2017 This comic does such a good job of simulating the wanderings of an engrossed but unanchored mind that is back engineers the relaxation of sensory deprivation into your reading body. Your brain is tricked so thorgouhly into accepting the dream that it does some of the work of…
Wild Rose Emerges: An Interview with Nicola R. White
Wild Rose Nicola R. White (writer), Kara Braeun (illustrator), Jono Doiron (colors, cover art) Independent Kickstarter Comic Once upon a time in Canada, an independent comic series was born when a romance novel author read a dark legend about a murdered Irish woman in a children’s book of horror stories. Wild Rose elaborates on the…
Retrospective Chronicle: Two Female Comic Creators Discuss CLAMP
CLAMP is an all-female group of comic creators from Japan, made up of four manga artists: Nanase Ohkawa, Mokona, Tsubaki Nekoi and Satsuki Igarashi. Originally formed in the mid-80s, their work spans several decades and countless genres, including Cardcaptor Sakura, Chobits, X/1999, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, and Magic Knight Rayearth. They’re also the main reason why…
Previously, On Comics: Rights, Rights, Rights
Here we are again, with another week of news from the comics world brought straight to you. We do hope you had some good time off this weekend, whether you had a holiday or not. This week on Previously, there’s some good news and some bad news. We’ll balance it all out for you here….
Bunn and Cole’s The Unsound Rushes Through a Sloppy Second Issue
The Unsound #2 Cullen Bunn (Writer), Jack T. Cole (Artist) BOOM! Studios June 29, 2017 In horror, everything depends on restraint. Without the harrowing marital discord of Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession, would the ghoulish bloodbath of the film’s final act pack the same punch? If we hadn’t watched Daenerys’s dragons grow to maturity over seven seasons…
Porcelain: Ivory Tower is Made of Strong Stuff
Porcelain: Ivory Tower Benjamin Read (Writer), Chris Wildgoose (Artist), André May (colorist), Jim Campbell (letterer) Improper Books Opening more than ten years after the last book in the Porcelain series, covered here by Christa Seeley, Porcelain: Ivory Tower begins with a lone woman working in an expansive and tranquil garden complete with perfectly tended flowers…
Wrapped Up #2: Your Everyday Preteen Mummy
Wrapped Up #2 Dave Scheidt (Writer), Scoot McMahon and Carolyn Nowak (Art), Sean Dove (Colorist) Lion Forge Comics November 15th, 2017 Milo is your everyday preteen boy. His parents are divorced. He has a sister he struggles to get along with. He loves pizza. And of course, he’s a mummy. Mummies in Milo’s world are…
Coyotes: A Tale That Is Red in Tooth and Claw
Coyotes #1 Sean Lewis (Writer), Caitlin Yarsky (Artist) Image Comics November 8, 2017 If there’s one thing I am a sucker for, it’s bold feminist outcries. And when I find such an outcry in comic form, fierce women of color and a compelling story are the cherries on top. With all of the absurd controversy—not…
Normandy Gold #4: Farrah Hair Everywhere
Normandy Gold #4 Megan Abbott and Alison Gaylin (Writers), Steve Scott (Artist) Titan Comics October 18, 2017 Sheriff Normandy Gold is a woman who heeds no man’s warning when it comes to finding justice for her slain sister, Lila. Leaving her small town sheriff post, Gold travels to Washington D.C. to investigate her sister’s murder…
