Welcome to Aftershock Comics Pubwatch for September 2019! This is the first month that I will be offering regular monthly updates on Aftershock for our WWAC readers, and you can keep an eye out for them in the months to come. We’re excited to read dangerously along with Aftershock, and bring you all the news…
Immortal Hulk #20 & #21: What are You, Bruce Banner of Earth?
Immortal Hulk #20 Joe Bennett (artist), Al Ewing (writer), Ruy José, Belardino Brabo, & Mark Deering (inkers), Paul Mounts (colorist), Cory Petit (letterer)| Marvel Comics July 3, 2019 Immortal Hulk #21 Ryan Bodenheim (artist), Al Ewing (writer),Paul Mounts (colorist), Cory Petit (letterer)| Marvel Comics July 17, 2019 Immortal Hulk #20 and #21 are two very different stories,…
Powers of X #4: It’s Cypher’s World, We’re All Just Living In It
Powers of X #4 VC’s Clayton Cowles (letterer), Marte Gracia (colors), Jonathan Hickman (writer), Tom Muller (design), R.B. Silva (artist) Marvel Comics September 11, 2019 I have been told many, many times since I started reading comics that nobody else cares about Doug Ramsey. Author Louise Simonson made the choice to kill Cypher in The…
Knights Temporal #1 Takes Readers Familiar Places in Unusual Ways
Knights Temporal #1 Cullen Bunn (Writer), Fran Galan (Artist, Cover Artist), Dave Sharpe (Letterer) July 31, 2019 In the first issue of Knights Temporal, a new series from Aftershock Comics, things are not as they seem for Auguste de Riviére, a knight freshly returned from the Crusades who finds himself following a quest for redemption into the…
Powers of X #2: Then It Will Be Done
Powers of X #2 VC’s Clayton Cowles (letterer), Marte Gracia (colors), Jonathan Hickman (writer), Tom Muller (design), R.B. Silva (artist), R.B. Silva & Adriano di Benedetto (inkers) Marvel Comics August 14, 2019 This review contains spoilers for Powers of X #2. In the press for House of X and Powers of X, Jonathan Hickman warned…
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…
Immortal Hulk #18-19: “This is Me”
Immortal Hulk #18 & #19 Joe Bennett (artist), Al Ewing (writer), Ruy José (inker), Paul Mount (colorist), Cory Petit (letterer)| Marvel Comics May 29, 2019 and June 12, 2019 Immortal Hulk #18 and #19 introduce us to the newest gamma monsters: the new Abomination and Harpy. These two issues are some of the book’s goriest…
Dead Kings #5 Finally Rests
Dead Kings #5 Lauren Affe, Thomas Mauer, Steve Orlando, Matthew Dow Smith Aftershock Comics May 29, 2019 For its full five-issue run, Aftershock Comics’ Dead Kings has told a story that’s equally about war and about redemption, and the book’s final issue completes that story with a practically pitch-perfect ending. Set in the fictional Thrice-Nine, the…
Immortal Hulk #17 Shines a Light on Bruce Banner’s Psyche
Immortal Hulk #17 Joe Bennett (artist), Al Ewing (writer), Ruy José (inker), Paul Mount (colorist), Cory Petit (letterer) Marvel Comics May 15, 2019 In Immortal Hulk #17, Al Ewing and Joe Bennett, with inker Ruy José, colorist Paul Mounts, and letterer Cory Petit, deliver another solid, unsettling issue in one of the strongest ongoing books of the…