There’s a LOT of CW news this week, some trailers, a Christmas special, and more in this week’s overview of comics+ media.
DC PUBWATCH – May 2021
Mayday mayday! Waking Hours did not earn the top slot this month. Instead, that honor went to The Other History of the DC Universe #4, a book that has also been remarkably good for its run, but in a much different way than Waking Hours has.
The Use Of Color Theory In The Winx Franchise
Unlike the 2004 cartoon on which it’s based, Fate: The Winx Saga fails to use creative character design and color theory to help tell a story — and that’s a shame.
REVIEW: Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence
Social anthropologist and novelist Jenny White (Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks, The Winter Thief) and artist Ergün Gündüz’s Turkish Kaleidoscope is dizzying. The graphic novel follows four characters, who are fictionalized composites of oral history interviewees, over four years in Turkey as political power shifted between different leftist and rightist groups. The comic, which…
REVIEW: Reptil #1 Is a Roaring Reintroduction
Reptil’s real name is Humberto Lopez. He was a superhero. If the name doesn’t sound familiar, don’t worry. Reptil #1 — the first issue of a four-part, post-Outlawed, post-King in Black miniseries — effectively (re)introduces the character, who first appeared in writer Christos Gage and artist Steve Uy’s Avengers: The Initiative Featuring Reptil #1.
INTERVIEW: Eric Palicki on his New Punk Rock Noir Horror Series Black’s Myth
Coming this July is Black’s Myth, a punk rock noir horror series starring werewolf private investigator Janie Jones. At its heart, this black-and-white series is as much about discovering whodunnit as is about “outcasts finding each other and accepting their place in the world,” said writer Eric Palicki in the AHOY Comics’ press release. Palicki…
REVIEW: My Heart is a Chainsaw Effortlessly Slays
Content warning: Self-harm, suicide, and emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. I’d say MHIAC it’s made for teenagers sixteen years old and older. My Heart is a Chainsaw feels like it was made for me, and me personally, which is always a wonderful thing to feel when you open a book. The volume begins with an…
Titan Comics PUBWATCH: May 2021
Graduations. Greenery everywhere. The promise of barbecues and beaches on the horizon. It’s gotta be May! This month, we’ll take a look at V.E. Schwab’s return to comics with ExtraOrdinary #0, and check-in with the latest adventures of Minky Woodcock and Missy.
REVIEW: Wolverine #12 — I have…SPECIAL BLOOD
Maybe it’s me? I dunno, my eyes just glaze over when we get another plot about Wolverine’s special blood.
REVIEW: Mutants Don’t Know the Difference Between an Embassy and a Consulate In Children of the Atom #3
I dunno. I guess I’m hitting that point where my enthusiasm is starting to run dry, even for a book like Children of the Atom.
Celebrate the Little Victories of Life with Yvon Roy
Every parent has their own hopes and dreams for their children, which sometimes don’t always end up becoming reality. (I think my mom still mourns the fact that I never became an engineer.) For Yvon Roy, those hopes and dreams ended up taking a different path in life when he found out his young son…
REVIEW: Army of the Dead – Face it, Zombie Tiger, You Just Hit the Jackpot
Invoking the late icon with sequined jumpsuits and sculpted waves of black hair, Elvis impersonators are already the walking dead—Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead only takes the extra step of turning them into flesh-eating zombies. Parachuting onto Netflix after a limited theatrical release, Snyder’s exhilarating return to the zombie genre turns the hedonistic joy…
