Lumberjanes #44 Kat Leyh and Shannon Watters (Writers), Ayme Soturo (Artist) BOOM! Studios November 22, 2017 This month on Lumberjanes: a rock throws a temper tantrum, Abigail helps in a non-violent way (partly), and a family is found. Molly and her fellow Lumberjanes head off into the forest to chop off the tree that’s causing…
Kong: Gods of Skull Island Doesn’t Roar
KONG: GODS OF SKULL ISLAND Phillip Kennedy Johnson (writer), Chad Lewis (artist), Dee Cunniffe (colorist), Ed Dukeshire (letterer) Boom! Studios October 18, 2017 On a whim, I went and saw Kong: Skull Island in theaters. It was a warm day, and theaters have air conditioning. I liked it. It was big and loud. It presented the titular…
The Wedding Issue: Big Barda and Scott Free
Aside from “Who would win in a fight?” nothing gets comic fans more heated than the question of whether or not superheroes should marry. In this mini-feature, former Bride Rebecca Henely-Weiss and her Maid of Honor Kayleigh Hearn take a trip down memory lane to the most significant times comic companies took the plunge and…
Shadowman/Rae Sremmurd
Shadowman/Rae Sremmurd #1 Eliot Rahal (Writer), Renato Guedes (Artist) Valiant October 4, 2017 Shadowman/Rae Sremmurd #1 is an artistically pleasing, quick adventure that combines devil-dealing and soul-stealing with modern musical artists.
IR$: A Serious-Minded Economy-Law Action Comic
IR$ Bernard Vrancken and Stephen Desberg Cinebook (English Translation), 2008 IR$ is a Belgian comic book about an American tax inspector, translated to English for the British market by Cinebook. A comic about a tax man. Wild, right?
Regular Show: Parks and Wreck is a Wild Ride
Regular Show: Parks and Wreck Various Creators kaBOOM! December 5, 2017 Regular Show: Parks and Wreck is a fun series of 14 shorts, collecting kaBOOM! comics Regular Show Annual 2014 #1, Regular Show 2015 March Madness Special #1, and Regular Show Special 2017 #1. The collection dives into the world of Mordecai and Rigby with some…
Adventure Time Comics #17: Don’t Forget The Teeth
Adventure Time Comics #17 Derek Laufman, Michael Morici, Pat Shand, Jeffrey Brown (Writers), Christopher Mitten, Spencer Amundson, Jeffrey Brown, Derek Laufman (Artists), Cole Closser (cover) kaBOOM! November 15, 2017 A new collection of Adventure Time shorts has emerged, each tale separate from the others in subject matter, but all still in possession of the heart…
Death Be Damned: Bringing The Wild West Back to Life
Death Be Damned Ben Acker, Ben Blacker, and Andrew Miller (Writers), Hannah Christenson (Artist), Juan Useche (Colorist), Colin Bell (Letterer) BOOM! Studios November 29, 2017 Let’s get the fun part out there first: Death Be Damned is a warped western Frankenstein revenge tale. I have been a fan of Ben Acker and Ben Blacker’s The Thrilling Adventure Hour for…
BOOM! Bar: Every Detail Covered
Eight offerings from BOOM! this week—three licensed, five creator-owned. Of the licenses, only one (Adventure Time/Regular Show #5 of a six-issue mini from KaBOOM!) is a single issue; Planet of the Apes Archive and Sons of Anarchy (both BOOM! Studios) both see their volumes two, with the former being in hardcover and the latter soft….
Sugar Town Is The Sweetest
Sugar Town Hazel Newlevant (creator) Self-Published Distributed by Alternative Comics October, 2017 You ever meet a girl at a party and find out her professional name as a dominatrix is the same as your everyday name? We’ve all been there. Awkward, right? Sugar Town is about (among many other things) what happens if you get…
Rebirth Roundup: Everything From December 13
This week sees two legendary artists returning to the characters they cut their teeth on, one of which was a complete surprise. We are also halfway through James Robinson’s Wonder Woman run, thankfully; and near the end of Superwoman, less thankfully. Rebirth Royalty this week goes to the surprising return of my favorite Superman writer…
Roundtable: The Wild Storm #9
Thanks for joining us again for Rae & Annie: The Only People On Earth Who Still Give A Crap About Wildstorm, which is neither the title of this feature nor honestly an accurate representation of the feelings of Wildstorm fans. [I guess they’re just having a bad day. —Ed.] This feature will contain spoilers, so…