Fresh off the BOOM! Beat, I’ve come over to Valiant territory. Having accidentally made the history of the publisher my new favourite obsession, I decided to get up to speed with the present of it too. From now on I’ll be reading everything the V puts out each month and giving them all a paragraph…
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest Is a Stormy Finale
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest #1 Alan Moore (writer), Kevin O’Neill (artist), Ben Dimagmaliw (colorist), Todd Klein (letterer) Knockabout Comics (U.K.) & Top Shelf Comics (U.S.) July 11, 2018 With the six-issue mini-series The Tempest, writer Alan Moore and artist Kevin O’Neill are planning to put an end not only to their ambitious,…
A Girl in the Himalayas is Fanciful Fantasy
A Girl in the Himalayas David Jesus Vignolli (Writer and Artist) Archaia April 2018 It’s hard to know what Archaia, BOOM! Studio’s fantasy imprint, is doing these days when it’s overshadowed by its Goliath parent publisher, busy churning out variant-happy Power Rangers and WWE comics. However, the fantasy comic imprint hasn’t gone anywhere, and A…
The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins is a Critical Hit
The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins Clint McElroy (Writer), Carey Pietsch (Writer, Art), Tess Stone (Letterer) First Second July 17, 2018 It’s incredibly difficult to convince anybody to listen to a 60+ hour Dungeons and Dragons podcast, which is why I’m glad that The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins is finally here.
BOOM! Bar: Licenses, Lettering, and Letting Go
BOOM! Bar! Where we talk about the month’s BOOM!, KaBOOM!, BOOM! Box, and Archaia releases, try to spot trends, and think about what BOOM! “is,” as a publisher. Remember last month, when I wondered about how letterers get attached to projects at BOOM! and their substudios? Well, I got some answers. So let’s start with…
Jeff Lemire Takes a Deep Dive Into The Hammerverse
At the end of a busy Friday at San Diego Comic-Con, I found myself nestled into the Dark Horse booth in their lounge area. It was quiet, sparse, and one of the first calm places I had come across after fighting the crowds of the exhibition floor. As I was waiting for Jeff Lemire, the…
My First Comic: Enter Sandman
Four years ago, everything I knew about comics came from Saturday morning cartoons (X-Men, BTAS, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I honestly didn’t read comics. I knew we had a local comic shop, but had never been there. I really wasn’t all that interested in comics as a storytelling medium….
The Silver Sprocket Take Over Continues
Silver Sprocket have quickly established themselves as a force to be reckoned with in the often homogeneous world of comics. So we were super stoked when we heard that they would be working to smash the system from the inside by putting their books in comics notorious direct market monopoly Diamond. We covered their first…
Monthly Marvel Muster – Everything Old is New Again
Hello, and welcome back to Monthly Marvel Muster. It’s been a while, and rather a lot has happened since my last post in February. There’s too much to go into in any detail, but I’ll try to hit the high notes.
Marvel Rising: Reading Order #1
Marvel Rising is a new “multi-platform franchise” from Marvel, featuring two of their biggest young adult darlings: Ms. Marvel and Squirrel Girl. Part of the project is a 5-issue team-up miniseries, following the two young heroes as they dash across college campuses and do an endearingly bad job of keeping their identities secret from each…
Marvel Rising: Why Does Marvel Hate New Readers #0
Back in April, or March, or some time long past, Marvel announced a new series. Marvel Rising is a new “multi-platform franchise,” aimed at young girls, a long-neglected audience, especially in the wake of DC’s smash success with DC Superhero Girls. The project includes a comic series that is focused on two of Marvel’s biggest…
Jody Houser on Stranger Things and Licensed Works
Jody Houser is a busy woman in the world of comics, having just wrapped up a Thrawn miniseries at Marvel and about to launch a Stranger Things comic and a StarCraft title with Dark Horse, not mention her work with Valiant and DC. While her original worlds appear in short comics in anthologies, her primary professional focus has…
