Xena: Warrior Princess #4 Vita Ayala (writer), Paulina Ganucheau, David Mack, Rachel Stott (covers), Ariana Maher (lettering), Rebecca Nalty (colors), Jordi Pérez (art) Dynamite Comics July 10, 2019 Oh, Dynamite’s Xena: have I told you lately that I love you? My affaire de cœur with the series continues with Xena: Warrior Princess #4, and here’s why…
Everything Old School Is New Again In Betty and Veronica: Friends Forever
Betty and Veronica: Friends Forever Bill Golliher (Story); Rich Koslowski (Inks); Jack Morelli (Letters); Dan Parent (Pencils & Covers); Glenn Whitmore (Colors) Archie Comics June 12th, 2019 Betty and Veronica: Friends Forever contains a wide variety of stories featuring Riverdale’s other dynamic duo. Covering the Betty and Veronica At the Movies, Betty and Veronica: Travel…
Dynamite Comics Pubwatch: August 2019
Welcome to the Dynamite Comics Pubwatch for the month of August! I’m Lisa, Dynamite is my explosive beat, and here’s this month’s news!
Special Delivery: Dark Horse Directly to Your Doorstep
Dark Horse Comics wants to take the fan experience to the next level. After introducing Dark Horse Deluxe to bring fans merchandise from their favourite gaming, comic, and television series, the company is expanding its reach to suit the tastes of more discerning consumers through the creation of carefully curated and crafted limited edition products…
Powers of X #1: The End is the Beginning is the End
Powers of X #1 VC’s Clayton Cowles (letterer), Marte Gracia (colors), Jonathan Hickman (writer), Tom Muller (design), R.B. Silva (artist) Marvel Comics July 31, 2019 This review contains spoilers for Powers of X #1 Powers of X #1 begins on a park bench ten years ago and ends in a library a thousand years into…
Previously On Comics: Disproportionately Bosomy Pleasure
Hello! Kate here to help you start your week by catching up on some of last week’s comics-related news you might have missed. Sometimes there’s a theme in the news that comes out, and this week that theme is money. Specifically, people not having enough of it because capitalism is a system that punishes us all.
Con(ference) Diary: CSS19 Comics/Politics
The Comics Studies Society held its second annual conference at Toronto’s Ryerson University over the last weekend of July. Drawing on the theme, Comics/Politics, CSS19 attendees from around the world participated in a conference that foregrounded Canadian comics scholarship and practice in plenaries featuring Tara Audibert, Cole Pauls, Camille Callison, Jillian Tamaki, and Fiona Smyth.
Batman: Rebirth #75 – It’s Bane’s World, We’re Just Living In It!
Batman: Rebirth #75 Tony Salvador Daniel (artist), Mitch Gerads (inker), Tomeu Morey (colorist), Tom King (writer) DC Comics July 17, 2019 Batman: Rebirth #75 marks the beginning of “City Of Bane,” and the beginning of the end to Tom King’s Batman run, and it doesn’t hesitate to come out of the gate with a compelling…
The Freeze Vol. 1: Who Deserves to Be Saved?
The Freeze Volume 1 Troy Peteri (letterer), Phillip Sevy (illustrator and colourist), Dan Wickline (writer) Top Cow Productions, Inc. May 8, 2019 The world is swallowed up by an unusual apocalypse when the entire population is simultaneously frozen in place. Well, everyone except Ray, who immediately discovers that he is the only person capable of…
DC PUBWATCH SDCC 2019 (and July) Edition
Greetings from the other side of San Diego Comic-Con! Oddly enough, most of the bigger news for this month’s DC Pubwatch came before SDCC, and unlike last year there were no big new series announced at any of the DC panels this year. Only Strange Adventures by Tom King, Mitch Gerads, and Doc Shaner got…
Cracking Open the Egg: William Gibson’s Alien 3
William Gibson’s Alien 3 Tamra Bonvillain (colorist), Johnnie Christmas (writer and artist), William Gibson (original screenplay), Nate Piekos (letterer) Dark Horse Comics August 7, 2019 In his author(ish) foreword, William Gibson relays the story of how he, an Alien/s fan, supposes he surprised and dismayed the studio by delivering a script for Alien 3 that…
Killers #1: Magic! Ninjas! Magic Ninjas!
Killers #1 Fernando Dagnino (Artist), B Clay Moore (Writer), Jeff Powell (Letters), José Villarrubia (Colours) Valiant Comics 31 July, 2019 Desdemona Rush returns home to find a masked man dead in her hallway, alongside her beloved companion. She needs answers—they lie in Burano, Italy, with a former covert colleague Roger Thorpe. Traveling there is the…
