We’re thrilled to present this exclusive first look at Archie Comics’ upcoming release Archie Jumbo Comics Digest #341!
REVIEW: Jed MacKay and Pasqual Ferry’s Doctor Strange Resurrects Its Hero in a New Series
The Sorcerer Supreme of Earth, Stephen Strange, is back in Jed MacKay and Pasqual Ferry’s new Doctor Strange book. The first issue’s title page catches readers up on what transpired just before the story begins: Stephen Strange was, of course, dead. Clea took over in his stead. A group of people from other dimensions have…
Previously on Comics: Pride, Art, and Babylon 5
Hello! This is your Friendly Neighbourhood Previously Editor wishing you a very good Pride 2023 morning. Here’s some queer comics news to brighten your week—Luciano Vecchio’s Sereno will soon be available as a book collection for the first time. Vecchio is an artist and writer known for his work on numerous DC and Marvel comics.
REVIEW: Nikola Tesla Utilizes a Contrived Format to Tell the Inventor’s Story
The new Comixology Original Nikola Tesla tells the story of a man ahead of his time. Highlighting Tesla’s many innovations and designs, this biography from Giovanni Scarduelli and Sergio Rossi also outlines his failures, battles with fellow inventors, and eventual fall from grace.
REVIEW: Starsigns #1 An Astronomical and Astrological Anomaly
Where was Rana Fawaaz when the zodiac constellations disappeared from the sky? The mystery of the missing stars unfolds in Saladin Ahmed, Megan Levens, and Kelly Fitzpatrick’s Starsigns #1, from Image Comics.
REVIEW: Translation State by Ann Leckie Sets Off the Space Canon
A new novel by Ann Leckie is an event to anticipate and Translation State is just as gripping and beautifully written as we’ve come to expect from her. Go ahead and take the day off from work to read this one all at once. Then you can go back and reread it at your leisure.
REVIEW: Hot Docs 2023 — Angel Applicant Examines Life, Art, and Terminal Illness
Editors Note: This review is part of a series of reviews from the Hot Docs Festival that took place from April 27th to May 7th 2023 in Toronto, Canada. In Angel Applicant, Ken August Meyer chronicles his life with systemic scleroderma, an autoimmune disease he shares with Swiss expressionist painter Paul Klee.
Previously on Comics: Selective Memory
Good morning! It’s June. In a move both terrible and inevitable since their sale to content farm monster Valnet back in 2016, CBR has laid off the majority of their senior editing staff. Valnet had the usual corporate speak about culture etcetera, but the stories filtering out seem to highlight that the editors fired were…
ESSAY: Disability and the Joy of Community in My Beijing by Nie Jun
Disability has long had a presence in visual culture, but all too often it has been represented as something monstrous and non-normative. Scars and other disfigurements have been used as an easy way to signal a character’s moral depravity, how they deal with painful trauma, or how they’ve been deified into inspirational figures (as Stella…
Seven Seas Pubwatch May 2023
It’s going to be MAY! Hello pollen, hello my face! Hello springtime allergies! Hello continued mask-wearing! This month sees some releases that fans who love fairy tale stories will be interested in, a newer English translated work of a beloved Shojo powerhouse, and also some volumes for fans of romance and a reminder that good…
Titan Comics PUBWATCH: April/May 2023
Spring is in full swing here in the U.S. Northeast, with all its joys (warmer weather, longer days), and its pitfalls (allergy season, that groundhog that chews on my doorframe to my back patio door). It’s a perfect time to take your comics reading outdoors. But maybe keep them away from the woodland creatures. This…
