With The Kitchen heading to theatres next month, the timing is perfect for more stories featuring women rising to the top in Mafia families. But unlike the 2015 Vertigo-published comic featuring three wives who hesitantly take over from their imprisoned husbands, Mafiosa is about a woman who has always known that she has what it…
Test #1 Shows Life in the Fringes of the Technology Boom
Test #1 Jen Hickman (artist), Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou (letterer), Harry Saxton (colorist), Christopher Sebela (writer) Vault Comics July 3, 2019 The first issue of Test throws you right into the story, asking you to keep pace with protagonist Aleph Null as the story hurtles ahead in a world that feels familiar, but becomes something uncertain and…
Tammy & Jinty Special 2019: The Girls are Back in Town
In the past, generations of British girls were entertained by comics with names like Sally, Judy, Diana, Debbie, Emma, June, Penny, Sandie, and Tina. The respective title character would serve as a mascot, while each issue contained a collection of stories about the exploits of various young heroines. D.C. Thomson’s Bunty, which ran from 1958 to…
Previously on Comics: The Police are Not The Punisher
From co-opted symbols, to to bigotry, to sexy demons, and keen adaptations, a lot went on in comics last week.
