Graduations. Greenery everywhere. The promise of barbecues and beaches on the horizon. It’s gotta be May! This month, we’ll take a look at V.E. Schwab’s return to comics with ExtraOrdinary #0, and check-in with the latest adventures of Minky Woodcock and Missy.
REVIEW: Wolverine #12 — I have…SPECIAL BLOOD
Maybe it’s me? I dunno, my eyes just glaze over when we get another plot about Wolverine’s special blood.
REVIEW: Mutants Don’t Know the Difference Between an Embassy and a Consulate In Children of the Atom #3
I dunno. I guess I’m hitting that point where my enthusiasm is starting to run dry, even for a book like Children of the Atom.
Celebrate the Little Victories of Life with Yvon Roy
Every parent has their own hopes and dreams for their children, which sometimes don’t always end up becoming reality. (I think my mom still mourns the fact that I never became an engineer.) For Yvon Roy, those hopes and dreams ended up taking a different path in life when he found out his young son…
REVIEW: Army of the Dead – Face it, Zombie Tiger, You Just Hit the Jackpot
Invoking the late icon with sequined jumpsuits and sculpted waves of black hair, Elvis impersonators are already the walking dead—Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead only takes the extra step of turning them into flesh-eating zombies. Parachuting onto Netflix after a limited theatrical release, Snyder’s exhilarating return to the zombie genre turns the hedonistic joy…
Last Week’s Episode: Monopolies and Movies and Mayhem, Oh MY!
Welcome back to Last Week’s Episode! This week we have more depressing news about a merger that will end one monopoly and create a new one, YAY! But there’s actually a ton of legitimately exciting movies and TV to talk about too, so it’s not all bad. Let’s get to it!
WWACarls: The Definitive List of Carls in Comics
According to all those baby naming sites, the name “Carl” has old Germanic origins and means “Free Man.” It’s considered to be a form of “Charles,” but with that strong, German influence that gives us the “K(a)-rl” pronunciation. Is it a good name? Fiction seems to think so. More specifically, the comic book industry seems…
Vault Pubwatch: May 2021
Vault’s spotlight this month is on its middle grade and young adult imprint, Wonderbound, which announced a new title coming this fall: Hello My Name is Poop, written by Ben Katzner, illustrated by Ian McGinty, colored by Fred C. Stresing, and lettered by Andworld Design.
INTERVIEW: Glenn Head’s Cathartic Return to Chartwell Manor
Content warning: Discussions of sexual and psychological abuse and trauma.
A Fistful of Comics: Crowdfunding Roundup, May ‘21
Folks, the comics this month are weird, varied, and absolutely up-and-down incredible, so instead of listening to me talk about the weather for a paragraph, let’s jump right into the experimental, opportunistic, and entrepreneurial goodness. Here we go!
VIZ Media Pubwatch: May 2021
Hello again! After taking April off, the monthly VIZ pubwatch is back and better than ever! This month we’re taking a look at… mostly Shonen Jump stuff, but also the latest release from horror master Junji Ito and volume 2 of Naoki Urasawa’s Asadora!. Let’s start with the news!
