Welcome to Aftershock Comics Pubwatch for September 2019! This is the first month that I will be offering regular monthly updates on Aftershock for our WWAC readers, and you can keep an eye out for them in the months to come. We’re excited to read dangerously along with Aftershock, and bring you all the news…
The Harmful Pseudoarchaeology of Mythological Atlantis
Having made its recent debut, Lost City Explorers is a brand new comic series by Aftershock Comics. In this series, siblings Helen and Homer Coates find themselves reeling from the sudden death of their archaeologist father, Dr. Tom Coates, who they believe has died in an underground work accident. That is until they find out…
Knights Temporal #1 Takes Readers Familiar Places in Unusual Ways
Knights Temporal #1 Cullen Bunn (Writer), Fran Galan (Artist, Cover Artist), Dave Sharpe (Letterer) July 31, 2019 In the first issue of Knights Temporal, a new series from Aftershock Comics, things are not as they seem for Auguste de Riviére, a knight freshly returned from the Crusades who finds himself following a quest for redemption into the…
Dead Kings is Tonally Confusing but Somehow Has a Great Ending
Dead Kings Vol. 1 Lauren Affe (Colours), Thomas Mauer (Letters), Steve Orlando (Writer), Matthew Dow Smith (Artist) Aftershock Comics July 30, 2019 Thrice-Nine, an apocalyptic wasteland, is all that is left of the once-glorious Rus. The denizens of the city, called Niners, are despised by all. But that doesn’t stop Sasha Vasnetsov from marching into…
AfterShock Pubwatch: June
This month, I’m taking a look at AfterShock Comics, which describes itself as “a creatively driven comic book publisher led by a team of highly accomplished, life-long comics professionals and entertainment specialists.” When I chatted with managing editor Christina Harrington, she explained that the company wanted “to tell stories that’ll make your skin crawl, that’ll…
Dead Kings #5 Finally Rests
Dead Kings #5 Lauren Affe, Thomas Mauer, Steve Orlando, Matthew Dow Smith Aftershock Comics May 29, 2019 For its full five-issue run, Aftershock Comics’ Dead Kings has told a story that’s equally about war and about redemption, and the book’s final issue completes that story with a practically pitch-perfect ending. Set in the fictional Thrice-Nine, the…
Orphan Age #1: A Parent’s Best and Worst Nightmare
Orphan Age #1 Ted Anderson (writer), Marshall Dillon (letterer), Juan Doe (variant cover artist), Nuno Plati (illustrator) AfterShock Comics April 2019 As the parent of an 11 and 13-year old, their independence means magic to me. It means I am free to go out on my own, without dragging them along or worrying about daycare….
Exploring How Stories Are Told with Ted Anderson
Something that’s really fun in the world of comics is realizing that several of your favorite comics are being written by the same author. That’s how I felt about Ted Anderson when I realized he was writing not only Moth & Whisper (my favorite charming YA cyberpunk spy story) but also several very enjoyable recent…
A Walk Through Hell Limping to Nowhere
A Walk Through Hell Vol. 1 Garth Ennis (Writer), Goran Sudzuka (Artist), Ive Svorcina (Colorist), Rob Steen (Letterer) Aftershock Comics November 28, 2018 Gentle spoilers below. When A Walk Through Hell #1 (Garth Ennis, Goran Sudžuka) was released back in June, my excitement for a modern horror comic quickly turned to half-hearted hopes. Maybe the…
A Monstrous Disappointment in Monstro Mechanica
Monstro Mechanica Vol. 1 Paul Allor (writer/letterer), Chris Evenhuis (artist), Sjan Weijers (colorist) Aftershock Comics September 2018 In Monstro Mechanica, master inventor Leonardo da Vinci and his apprentice Isabel are caught in a web of intrigue between the Medici family and the Papal State in Rome. Da Vince and Isabel have created a robot, the titular…
Moth & Whisper #1 Delivers Intrigue and Heart
Moth & Whisper #1 Ted Anderson (writer), Jen Hickman (artist) AfterShock Comics September 12, 2018 Moth & Whisper is described by their publisher, AfterShock, as “a Young Adult cyberpunk thriller starring a genderqueer super-thief,” and if that’s not enough to get you on board, I don’t know what to tell you.
Rye Hickman Talks About the Cyberpunk World of Moth & Whisper
Moth & Whisper is one of the newest titles that will be coming out soon from AfterShock comics and is a tale of crime, intrigue, glamorous thieves, and a genderqueer protagonist that has to take up the family business(es) if they want to save their family. We had a chance to talk with artist Rye…