Welcome to Monthly Marvel Muster, as we look back on January. This column we have two character resurrections, the start of the much-hyped weekly Avengers: No Surrender, and a whole lot of miniseries and one-shots. Marvel had no new ongoing comics in January, but made up for it with five new miniseries and five one-shots….
Bloodshot Salvation #7 Dances in the Dark
Bloodshot Salvation #7 Jeff Lemire (writer, illustrator) Valiant March 7th 2018 Ohhh hey now, Valiant is being cute again!
Star Wars Adventures: Ahsoka and Padme Bites Off More Than It Can Chew
Star Wars Adventures: Forces of Destiny #4: Ahsoka and Padme Beth Revis (writer), Valentina Pinto (artist and colours), Tom B. Long (letters) IDW Publishing 24 January, 2018 The Forces of Destiny series heads to the Star Wars prequels and The Clone Wars animated series with Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano and Naboo Senator Amidala starring in…
WWE #14: Well, It Could Be Worse
WWE #14 Dennis Hopeless, Tini Howard (writers), Serg Acuña (artist), Dan Mora (cover artist) BOOM! Studios February 21, 2018 There is something fascinating about WWE #14. The first issue of the arc chronicling the Women’s Revolution in the company is some kind of genius in how metatextual the storytelling is. Because, exactly like the real…
The Beatles Story: And Your Book Can Sing
The Beatles Story Angus Allan (Writer), Arthur Ranson (Artist) Rebellion/The Treasury of British Comics February 2018 Ever since Beatlemania began in 1963, comics has watched, recorded, and re-interpreted the Fab Four. It started very early on, with the now defunct Dell Comics 1964, a sanitized one-shot biography of The Beatles. But it has included everything…
Star Wars Adventures: Forces of Destiny – Hera: A Bringer of Hope
Star Wars Adventures: Forces of Destiny #3 – Hera Devin Grayson (Writer). Eva Widermann (Artist), Monica Kubina (Colours), Tom B. Long (Letters) IDW Publishing 17 January, 2018 The IDW Publishing’s Star Wars Forces of Destiny series is going from strength to strength. Following two solid first issues featuring the films’ female characters as protagonists, the…
Dishonored: A Comic That Doesn’t Love Comics
Dishonored #1 Michael Moreci (writer), Andrea Olimpieri (artist) Titan Comics 27 September 2017 Titan Comics’ new Dishonored comic is a loving tribute to the Dishonored games that has no love for comics themselves. The first issue of Dishonored follows Corvo Attano and Emily Kaldwin, Lord Regent and Empress of the Isles, as they investigate a…
Twisted Romance #2: A Promising Second Date
Twisted Romance #2 Alejandra Gutierrez (artist, “Twinkle & The Star”), Alex de Campi (writer, “Twinkle & The Star), Vita Ayala (“Back at Your Door”), Meredith McLaren (writer/artist, “Would You Even Know It?”) Image Comics February 14, 2018 Reports of romance comics’ death have always been greatly exaggerated. Crying white women pining over hunks in four-color…
World of Wakanda: Short-Lived But Powerful Tale of Fierce, Queer Love
Black Panther: World of Wakanda #1-5 Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates (Writers), Alitha Martinez, Afua Richardson (Artists), Rachelle Rosenberg (Colorist), VC’s Joe Sabino (Letterer) Marvel Comics 2018-2017 While Roxane Gay’s name holds a certain shiny promise, it was not her alone that drew me to Black Panther’s World of Wakanda. I was initially drawn to this…
Mimi Pond’s The Customer is Always Wrong is Just Right
The Customer is Always Wrong Mimi Pond (Writer and Artist) Drawn & Quarterly August 9th, 2017 Mimi Pond’s The Customer is Always Wrong captures that time of carefree youth, when everything seems to last forever and yet, with a creeping certainty, the consequences of one’s actions are slowly making their first marks. The graphic novel presents…
Hungry Ghosts Left Me Hungry for Context
Hungry Ghosts #1 Anthony Bourdain (writer), Joel Rose (writer), Alberto Ponticelli (artist), Vanessa Del Rey (artist), Jose Villarrubia (colorist), Sal Cipriano (letters), Paul Pope (cover art) Dark Horse 31 January, 2018 I can’t pinpoint exactly when I fell in love with Japanese horror. There’s a solid chance it happened when I stumbled across the anime…
Jem and the Holograms – Infinite: Colourful Caper through Parallel Worlds
Jem and the Holograms: Infinite Kelly Thompson (Writer), Stacey Lee, Jenn St-Onge (Artists), Jen Hickman (Artist and Letters), Sarah Stern, M. Victoria Robado (Letters and Colours), Shawn Lee (Letters), Brittany Peer (Colours) IDW Publishing 13 February, 2018 Jem and the Holograms and the Misfits are at it again: not singing, but arguing. Can these two…