It came to Olivia Cuartero-Briggs one night in a dream while she was in her 20s — she pauses — “I’m starting to sound like a bad musical,” she says with a laugh before going on to describe waking up on the floor of a building she didn’t recognize with strangers all around her. Workers…
REVIEW: Chaos Reigns During Deadpool: Nerdy 30
Deadpool: Nerdy 30 celebrates the “Merc with a Mouth” with style, sensitivity and humor. It’s chaotic, odd, and incredibly funny — just like Deadpool himself.
Previously on Comics: Matters of Record
I don’t know about you but this week has felt so incredibly long. Luckily, it only produced about 4 minutes of pertinent comics news so you can slurp this up and then go back to worrying about real stuff. First up, nominations! This week DisCon III announced the finalists for the 2021 Hugo Awards. Information…
A Fistful of Comics: Crowdfunding Roundup, April ‘21
Happy April! After a full 13 months of half-lockdown, the United States is finally on its way to getting folks vaccinated and, perhaps, in a position where we can see our friends in person without being afraid of causing a biological incident. I’m planning on using the few remaining months I have of not having…
REVIEW: Marauders #19 – Morlocks Take Madripoor
“Only two types of people in Madripoor: the rich, and those willing to kill you to become rich.” So says Patch, Logan’s alter ego in a classic display of classism. How fitting that it’s the Morlocks who come to the rescue of the poor in Madripoor’s Lowtown when the Krakoan mutants cannot in Marauders #19.
INTERVIEW: Artist and Co-Creator Erica D’Urso Brings the Action and Emotion to Inferno Girl Red
Mat Groom and Erica D’Urso’s Inferno Girl Red has taken off on Kickstarter. Following up on our interview with writer Groom, we’re checking in with D’Urso to chat about her art and other creative contributions to this exciting new character and story.
REVIEW: A King Surveys His Kingdom in Godzilla: Dominion
Godzilla: Dominion is one of two tie-in original graphic novels for the movie Godzilla vs. Kong. Set shortly after the events of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, it follows Godzilla as he surveys his domain and sets things in order.
REVIEW: Snoopy, Come Home is a Canine Classic
Snoopy, Come Home (not to be confused with the animated film of the same title) is a reissue of Charles M. Schultz’s book from the early 1960s, incorporating 126 daily Peanuts newspaper strips from 1955-1962. The volume’s release will coincide with the beloved series 70th Anniversary this year and a new show on Apple TV.
REVIEW: The Antifa Super-Soldier Cookbook Serves Up Distressingly On-Point, But Hilarious, Political Satire
“What if everything the right thought about the left was real?” That’s the driving premise behind The Antifa Super-Soldier Cookbook, the latest from The Nib’s own Mattie Lubchansky. To be honest, the premise puzzled me a little at first. On the one hand, I’m automatically a bit wary of anything that might end up being…
Archie Comics Pubwatch: April 2021
Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for the month of April! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock ‘lit Shoppe, and here’s this month’s news! In this month’s Archie Comics Pubwatch, Archie goes viral again thanks to a Simpsons-like prediction of the future, more Liefeld, a new series is launched for Archie’s…
INTERVIEW: Return to Spiral City with Jeff Lemire and Caitlin Yarsky’s Black Hammer: Reborn
Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston’s superhero saga, Black Hammer, returns with a whole new story, set 20 years after the Lucy Weber took up the mantle her father left behind. The legacy her father left behind, the secrets of what has happened over the past two decades, and the crushing frustrations of her everyday life…
REVIEW: X-Men #19 – Days of Future, Passed
The City inside the Vault is, at its core, a paradox. As the name suggests, its very existence is an enigma: simultaneously infinite and claustrophobic, it appears post-apocalyptically empty but hides a deadly enemy around every corner. The “genesis tomb” of the Children of the Vault, superpowered post-humans genetically designed for world domination, the City…
