It’s Monday, which means it’s Mighty Marvel Monday, the weekly news round up of Marvel-related news, or as I like to say, my version of Last Week Tonight except I’m not a British man, and this is not HBO, so not really much like Last Week Tonight at all except for the once-a-week news format thing….
PEOW! Studio’s Bio-Whale Flies High
Bio-Whale Ville Kallio PEOW! Studio August 2015 Disclaimer: Bio-Whale was reviewed using a digital review copy provided by PEOW! Studio. The first thing Bio-Whale hits you with is color. Vibrant pinks and blues are splashed over the pages, a spectrum of carnival cotton candy. It’s the sort of book that seems like it would feel…
Review: Swords of Sorrow: Miss Fury & Lady Rawhide
Swords of Sorrow: Miss Fury & Lady Rawhide Mikki Kendall (words), Ronilson Freire (lines), Kirsty Swan (colors), Erica Schultz (letters) Mirka Andolfo & Vincent Di Salvo (cover) Dynamite September 2, 2015 Synopsis from Dynamite: “When everything is going wrong, sometimes the only person you can trust is a complete stranger. Can Miss Fury and Lady…
Shinbun Saturday: Manga Continues Its Digital Expansion
More Manga Hits ComiXology Earlier this week, VIZ Media announced that manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump would now be available on ComiXology. Now English-language speakers can read the latest chapters of One Piece and Bleach on the same day they’re released in Japan. Kodansha Comics also joins the digital platform, adding more than 350 manga…
Sister Wolf: A Dark Soundtrack for a Day in Gotham
Villians Sister Wolf August 2015 Sister Wolf is a three-piece rock band that initially met playing blues at Sarah Lawrence College. Now, they’re taking the stories and psyches of several comic book characters in Villians, their first full-length album (available to stream on SoundCloud now). Made up of Steph Wolf, Chris Atkins, and Matt Weitman, the band cites both comics and feminism as…
Ass-Kicking Lesbian Sweethearts: Supercakes by Kat Leyh
Supercakes Kat Leyh Yeti Press June 2015 Disclaimer: A review copy of Supercakes was provided by the Yeti Press. By day, May, a.k.a Tank, and Molly, a.k.a Shift, are two superheroes trying to save the city. But by night, they’re two regular women trying to make their relationship work.
Intent of the Cover Art: A Novice Perspective Gets Unjudge-y
Recently, Scout Comics forwarded a press release to WWAC spotlighting two upcoming titles, Class Action #1, October 2015, and Henchgirl #2, also October 2015. The covers in the email were large and hard to miss. I’m sure that was the point. And so began the visceral reactions. It started with a simple question like WTF?…
Tiffany Fox: Our Future Batgirl?
There are two things I love more than anything, in Batman, and those two things are: the villains, and the batgirls. The villains and the batgirls have so much textured history in them that it should be a crime not to like them.
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Comixology Digital Domination Expands
Comixology’s digital marketplace got a little larger this week with Black Mask Studios and Weekly Shonen Jump comics coming to the site. I’m particularly excited to start picking up We Can Never Go Home from Black Mask Studios which has been getting tons of critical acclaim. For manga fans, the Weekly Shonen Jump anthology is…
Zine Review: Sawdust Press’ Blood Root: Issue Three
Blood Root: Issue Three Canaries by Haan Lee, Jezinkas by Noel Franklin (Writer and Artist) and CB Webb (Letterer), Dead Rain by Ram V (Writer and Letterer), Kishore Mohan (Artist), and Merryn John (Letterer), Cover Art by Aatmaja Pandya and Interior Cover Art by Shing Yin Khor Sawdust Press Limits are good. Limits are also bad. These are contradictory truths with which…
Twisty Plots and Real Relationships: An Interview with Jeremy Whitley
Jeremy Whitley, writer of the Eisner-nominated series Princeless has been an awfully busy bee as of late! With the release of Raven: Pirate Princess #2, a short comic in Marvel’s Secret Wars: Secret Loves, and Princeless Be Yourself #3 all happening almost at once, we thought we’d sit down with Jeremy again and talk about…
The Blacklist in Print: An interview with Writer Nicole Phillips on Blacklist Comics
Fans of the critically-acclaimed crime drama, The Blacklist, can now immerse themselves into the backstories of their favorite characters. After reading the first issue, it did feel like an extension on the show, rather than a separate dimension. Show scriptwriter, and now writer for The Blacklist comics, Nicole Phillips, took time out to answer a few…
