Far Sector #1 Deron Bennett (letterer), Jamal Campbell (artist), Maggie Howell (assistant editor), N. K. Jemisin (writer), Andy Khouri (editor) DC’s Young Animal November 13, 2019 Far Sector #1 opens up with a scene of beauty: a decapitated hand, spattered in violet blood, a spike-tipped wingfin, torn and splintered, and the reflections of a towering…
Black Stars Above #1 Lures You Into Its Inky Abyss
Black Stars Above #1 Jenna Cha (artist), Tim Daniel (designer), Lonnie Nadler (writer), Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou (letterer), Brad Simpson (colourist) Vault Comics November 13, 2019 Black Stars Above #1 opens with a bird’s-eye view of a desolate, snow-covered clearing, slowly closing in to the surrounding forest and a pack of animals moving through it. A man comes into…
Fallen Angels #1 Has A Rough Landing
Fallen Angels #1 Frank D’Armata (colors), Bryan Edward Hill (writing), Szymon Kudranski (artist), Tom Muller (design), Joe Sabino (letters) Marvel Comics November 13, 2019 In an interview with Adventures In Poor Taste, X-Men Group Editor Jordan White clarified that the reason we would see the newly-reestablished Kwannon going by the codename of Psylocke, as well…
Adoption Papers for Rahne Sinclair
New Mutants #1, in addition to being a great issue in its own right, had a very important highlight: like other mutants, Rahne Sinclair is alive again. That brings us to an important point of discussion regarding her: She’s ours now. By ‘ours’, of course, I mean that she belongs to trans people. You may…
Breaking In! With Daredevil #261
Daredevil #261 Ann Nocenti (writer), John Romita Jr. (penciler), Joe Rosen (letterer), Al Williamson (inker), and Greg Wright (colourist) Marvel Comics December 1988 Before I watched any of the Daredevil Netflix show, I knew two things about Matt Murdock from my comic friends. First, at one point in time he fights a vacuum cleaner, and second, he…
New Mutants #1 Is a Fresh and Essential Rejuvenation of Old Friends
New Mutants #1 Jonathan Hickman & Ed Brisson (Writers), Travis Lanham (Letterer), Tom Muller, (Designer), Rod Reis (Artist) Marvel Comics November 6, 2019 Even in the Dawn of X, New Mutants is special. Among all these new titles, game-changing missions, and unconventional team rosters, we have a reunion. This first issue brings old friends back…
X-Force #1 Provides Black Ops, Black Tom, and a Black Eye on the Line
X-Force #1 Joe Caramagna (Letters), Joshua Cassara (Art), Tom Muller (Design), Benjamin Percy (Writing), Dean White (Colors) Marvel Comics November 6, 2019 After weeks and weeks of high praise for the new direction of the X-Men overall line, it was inevitable that we would eventually hit a stumble. X-Force #1 is exactly that point.
Previously on Comics: The Word of the Week is “LIBRARY”
Hello again, gentle reader. This is my second to last Previously of 2019, because, in case you were wondering, there are 50 days left in 2019, 44 days until Christmas, 42 days until Hanukkah, and 38 days until The Rise of Skywalker. Yep. So there’s no time to waste. Shall we? The word of the…
Open House: HoXPoX and a New Era for X-Men
It wouldn’t be misspeaking to say that we enjoyed House of X and Powers of X around here, as a bunch of die-hard X-Men fans. Now that the twin series are wrapped up, we sat down to have a chat about the moments that worked for us, the moments that didn’t, and what we hope…
LibraryCon Summons “All Book Nerds, Librarians, and Fans of Graphic Novels, SF, and Fantasy”
Returning for its third year, LibraryCon opened its virtual doors for one day on November 6, welcoming book nerds, librarians, educators, and fans of comics and speculative fiction. Offering live webcast talks and ample networking opportunities, LibraryCon is a “celebration of fandom-beloved stories and characters, featuring the creators behind mind-bending speculative fiction, innovative comics, and…
Vengeance of Vampirella #2: Dazed, Bloody, and Confused
Vengeance of Vampirella #2 Joshua Middleton (cover artist), Troy Peteri (letterer), Omi Remalante Jr. (colourist), Tom Sniegoski (writer), Michael Sta. Maria (artist) Dynamite Entertainment November 6, 2019 This is a bleak future and the emptiness left by Vampirella’s death is palpable, even to her greatest enemy and the one who sent her to her grave….
“God’s Country” is a ’90s Story of Small-Town Corruption that Remains Relevant
Editor’s Note: This author has chosen to remain anonymous, due to the very specific geographical knowledge contained here. I grew up in Stanwood, Washington, a small town a couple miles off the interstate. Its got that quintessential small-town feel: the dairy farms handed down through generations, the locally owned businesses being edged out by big…
