It’s that time of year where we all vow to improve ourselves from the year before, be it more trips to the gym or getting out of debt. But what of comics New Year’s resolutions? What do you want to change for the better about your comics habits? Whether it’s trying manga for the first…
Excalibur #5 and the Gospel of Dolly Parton
The events of the past four issues come to a head in Excalibur #5, as the groundwork laid by the creative team comes together in explosive ways. With the long promised return of Rogue, Excalibur assembles its full team for the first time, just in time to change the status quo in a huge fashion. Excalibur has been one…
Folklords #2 Takes the Easy Road
Folklords #2 follows Ansel, the fantasy comic’s human protagonist, and Archer, his elf friend, as they go out of their village and into the woods in search of the titular Folklords.
John Constantine: Hellblazer #1: Dark, Dangerous, and Delightful
After the semi-soft reboot of The Sandman Universe Presents: Hellblazer #1, John Constantine is back in London, 2019. He’s tasked with a seemingly insurmountable obstacle: the key to saving the future is to not be such a garbage bag of a person.
Doctor Who: Thirteenth Doctor Year 2 #1: Weeping Woodstock
Doctor Who: Thirteenth Doctor Year 2 #1 sees the Doc and her ‘fam’ head to Woodstock… except the Tardis has other ideas. They’re in 1969 alright, but not at Woodstock. Instead, the Tardis has landed them in London, in the same vicinity as the Doctor’s tenth incarnation. The Tardis must have a reason for this…
By the Letters: Taylor Esposito Has Big Plans for 2020
Taylor Esposito ended 2019 with more than 1,300 issues to his credit as a letterer, and has hopes to do lots more for the new year. Drawing on his years of experience as a graphic designer, moving on to the Marvel Bullpen, and then achieving his dream by becoming a staff letterer at DC Comics,…
Dynamite Comics Pubwatch: January 2020
Welcome to the Dynamite Comics Pubwatch for the month of January! I’m Lisa, Dynamite is my explosive beat, and here’s this month’s news!
Fallen Angels #5 Is a High Bar You Still Can’t Limbo Under
Fallen Angels has set such a low bar for itself that a baby could crawl over it, so while it’s surprising to find an issue I didn’t hate, I’m not going to say that Fallen Angels #5 is in any way a good comic. The entire series has been an unmitigated disaster in an otherwise…
New Mutants #5: Space, The Final Frontier
In the fifth issue of Jonathan Hickman and Rod Reis’s New Mutants, the team’s space mission encounters real space danger, as the New Mutants go head-to-head with the Shi’ar Death Commandos. Dawn of X’s space saga hurtles ahead and the New Mutants entangle themselves in more interstellar political turmoil than anyone expected from a simple…
X-Force #5 Takes an Eye for an Eye
After the cliffhanger of last issue, X-Force #5 gives us pure action the entire way through, which is good, since it feels like we’ve been waiting for a resolution to this since last year. [CHORUS OF BOOS. —Ed.]
Previously on Comics: Dear Comics Industry
Hello once again Dear Reader! I hope you are quite recovered from the New Year’s festivities and ready to face 2020 with alacrity. No? Yeah, me neither. So, let’s get into the news that came out last week, which was a lot, thanks to the holidays and such. It seems like two comics companies decided…
The Great Outdoors is an Overly Biological Ode to Nature
In The Great Outdoors, author Catherine Meurisse recounts her childhood growing up in a countryside home. Her parents decided to leave their city life for the country, and they never looked back, fostering in Catherine and her sister Fanny the same fondness for the outdoors.