Star Trek: The Q Conflict #6 Alexandra Alexakis (colours), Elisabetta D’Amico (artist), David Messina (artist), David Tipton (writer), Scott Tipton (writer), Neil Uyetake (letters) IDW Publishing 24 July, 2019 Four Starfleet crews—Enterprise A, Enterprise D, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager—have been commandeered for a contest. The winner will decide the fate of a war being…
StarCraft: Survivors #1 Review: There Are Strings on Me
StarCraft: Survivors #1 Michael Atiyeh (Colours), Steve Dutro (Letters), Jody Houser (Writer), Gabriel Guzman (Artist) Dark Horse Comics 24 July, 2019 Following the loss of his crew, Caleb, a Terran engineer and scavenger, finds himself working at an ammunition’s factory in the Umojan Protectorate. There he befriends a young family, but tries to keep to…
Not with a Shabang but a Whimper: Ms. Marvel Annual #1
Ms. Marvel Annual #1 Joe Caramagna (lettering), Stefano Caselli and Andres Mossa (cover), Jon Lam (artist), Msassyk (colorist), Magdalene Visaggio (writer) Marvel Comics July 3, 2019 “We’re living like refugees on a planet we barely know!” Super-Skrull shouts this at Ms. Marvel as she embiggens, meeting violence with violence despite just pages before asking for a…
The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Invisible Woman #1
Invisible Woman #1 Joe Caramagna (letterer), Adam Hughes (cover artist), Mattia de Iulis (artist), Mark Waid (writer) Marvel Comics July 10th, 2019 Mark Waid’s run on Fantastic Four with Mike Weiringo was the first I ever read, and it’s still my sentimental favorite. After making the First Family of Comics persona non grata for years,…
Insta Made Me Read It: Cursed Princess Club & True Beauty
Having been spending a lot more time on Instagram, I’ve been seeing a lot of Instagram ads. Some—my favourite—are for excessively dishy dating sim games. Some—the most perplexing—are for bizarre and sexual-looking contraptions selling for minus four dollars on Wish. And some—the ones that have actually caused me to click through and sample that tasty…
Vault Comics Pubwatch @ SDCC
Vault Comics started the month off with a celebration of firsts, offering thirteen free comics in the spirit of the July 4th holiday. Download the first issues of Alien Bounty Hunter, Deep Roots, Failsafe, Fearscape, Fissure, Friendo, Heathen, Maxwell’s Demons, Songs for the Dead, Submerged, Vagrant Queen, Wasted Space, and Zojaqan to get a taste…
Riverdale Season 3 #4: Family Intrigues
Riverdale Season 3 #4 ‘Strangers at a Bus Stop’ Micol Ostow (Writer), Thomas Pitilli (Artist), Andre Skymanowicz (Colours), John Workman (Letters) ‘Dead Calm’ Janice Chiang (Letters), Joe Eisma (Artist), Matt Herms (Colours), Micol Ostow (Writer) Archie Comics 26 June, 2019 After a particularly strong third issue focusing on secondary and tertiary characters, Riverdale Season 3…
Vampirella #1: WTF Is Up With Her Clothes?
Vampirella #1: Seduction of the Innocent Frank Cho (Cover A artist), Ergün Gündüz (artist and colourist), Christopher Priest (writer), Willie Schubert (letterer) Dynamite Entertainment July 17, 2019 Fifty years after her introduction, Vampirella is rebooted yet again by Dynamite—though writer Priest promises that this isn’t exactly a reboot. In a CBR interview, he says that…
Sera and the Royal Stars #1: It’s Complicated
Sera and the Royal Stars #1 Raúl Angulo (colorist), Jim Campbell (letterer), Audrey Mok (artist), Jon Tsuei (writer) Vault Comics July 17, 2019 Sera and the Royal Stars gives me super complicated feelings! I’m not usually so bombastic when I start a review, but it does! It’s the story of a princess’ quest in ancient Parsa…
Batman: Rebirth #74: It’s Family Feud!
Batman: Rebirth #74 Jordie Bellaire (colorist), Clayton Cowles (letterer), Mikel Janin (artist), Tom King (writer) DC Comics July 10th 2019 The lead-up to Batman #74 has been a roller coaster of realizations, from Dick Grayson’s brain injury at the hands of KGBeast, to the wedding that never was, to Bane’s slow-burn takeover of Gotham. Possibly…
2019 Hugo Award Reviews: Novellas Part One
Welcome back to this series reviewing the prose contenders for the 2019 Hugo Awards. Previous instalments have covered Best Short Story and Best Novelette. Now it is time to begin looking at the contenders for the title of Best Novella…
Test #1 Shows Life in the Fringes of the Technology Boom
Test #1 Jen Hickman (artist), Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou (letterer), Harry Saxton (colorist), Christopher Sebela (writer) Vault Comics July 3, 2019 The first issue of Test throws you right into the story, asking you to keep pace with protagonist Aleph Null as the story hurtles ahead in a world that feels familiar, but becomes something uncertain and…
