Spring is almost here! Though I can’t quite tell from all the snow and ice covering my driveway. But with these spring months come some new comics and big plans from Vault, including a new deal with Lunar Distribution.
News
The big news for Vault this past month is that the publisher has inked a deal with Lunar Distribution, making this the third company after Diamond and Simon & Schuster involved with shipping the company’s comics and graphic novels.
Love character design and comic book fashion? Then you’ll appreciate Giorgia Gio Sposito’s designs for Angie from Lunar Room.
Angie – character studies for LUNAR ROOM published by @thevaultcomics #lunarroom #dannylore #giorgiasposito #giosposito #vaultcomics pic.twitter.com/5mBe9IG9Uv
— Giorgia Gio Sposito (@giorgiasposito) February 21, 2022
Coming Soon
Coming in April is Quests Aside, written by Brian Schirmer (Fairlady, Black Jack Ketchum), drawn by Elena Gogou (Campfire Stories, My City) colored by Rebecca Nalty (Bog Bodies, Heavy Vinyl), and designed by Tim Daniel.
A skeleton, an apprentice mage, and an exiled princess walk into a bar… for another shift at Quests Aside, the local watering hole run by once legendary, now retired adventurer Barrow. When the King privately explains that he plans to shut the place down, Barrow must find a way to hold onto his business and the family he’s built around it.
Fans of Songs of the Dead, rejoice! The final journey is nigh!
? THE FINAL JOURNEY ?
We're proud to announce AN ALL-NEW STORY from the Songs team and @kreugan – the conclusion to the epic Songs saga!
Coming soon from @thevaultcomics ⚔ pic.twitter.com/sTMUCJQwZn
— Songs for the Dead (@songscomic) July 24, 2020
And finally, look out for a new Barbaric one-shot ahead of its ongoing series.
First and Faves
In Human Remains #5, Colonel Sullivan has one of the monsters trapped and is determined to communicate with it, bringing in a pair of secret telepathic weapons to do so. This is a fascinating switch up on the usual scenario where the general is usually the one who wants to shoot first and pense questions later. Meanwhile, the scientist — Dr. Sharma — is ready to murder them for taking her son from her. Until she makes her way to an enclave of people who have learned how to successfully deal with the lifeforms and is forced to try out their methods for herself in Human Remains #6.
The Reaper, the Daytripper, the DJ. They each have a role to play in this apocalypse, and in Radio Apocalypse #2, we get a deeper look into this world. Dialogue is pithy, but powerful, building on the sense that wasted words are as useful as wasted actions when death howls at sunset. The imagery swirls in muted, grizzled lines and loops and colors, coalescing into clear moments of powerful emotion and action when it needs to.
Engineward is built on a forgotten Earth, shaped with new lore that is firmly grounded in what we know, yet so alien. So often these future worlds fail to distance themselves enough, but it’s a testament to the creators’ brilliant worldbuilding that this world leaves enough room for the reader to wonder if this really is a future Earth or something entirely different. The story entices with both the journey into this mystery as well as the slow unraveling of the celestial overlords that rule the people. Volume one collects all 12 issues of the series. And I still can’t get over the lettering in that opening sequence…
Bless Zero’s boredom for being the insight into Sin’s inner workings as they explore her apartment and find important details like what’s in her ereader’s to-read pile in Lunar Room #3. In the past two issues, we’ve gotten to see Cynthia cut loose with a whole lot of violence, but this time, we get to see what it means to be part of a pack. And it is totally worth it.
Cover Gallery
